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Francisco X. Alarcón

 

 

                 

Francisco X. Alarcón, award-winning Chicano poet and educator, was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico, and now lives in Davis, where he teaches at the University of California. He is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry, including Canto hondo / Deep Song (University of Arizona Press 2015), Borderless Butterflies / Mariposas sin fronteras (Poetic Matrix Press 2014), Ce • Uno • One: Poems for the New Sun (Swan Scythe Press, 2010), From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2002), Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes (Creative Arts Book Company, 2001), and Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (Chronicle Books, 1992). He is the author of six acclaimed books of bilingual poems for children on the seasons of the year originally published by Children’s Book Press, now an imprint of Lee & Low Books. He is the creator of the Facebook page “Poets Responding to SB 1070.”

 

15.1.2016

 

Esthela Alarcon

 

1 hr · Long Beach · 

 

My brother the poet Francisco X. Alarcon passed away this morning surrounded by love, family, friendship, poetry, song and the spirits of our ancestors. 
Fly freely my love! May the angels inspire more poetry and the children on earth serve as your transcriber. 

 

Tierra
Poemas y mariposas
con alas sobrevuelan
cualquier frontera

 

Earth
Poems and butterflies
have wings to fly over
border and divide

 

Francisco X Alarcon

 

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