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Francisco X. Alarcón, Chicano
poet and educator, was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1954.
He is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including, From the Other Side of Night: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press 2002), Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes (Creative Arts Book Company 2001), No Golden Gate for Us (Pennywhistle Press 1993), Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (Chronicle Books 1992), Of Dark Love (Moving Parts Press 1991, and 2001). His most recent book of bilingual poetry for children is Animal Poems of the Iguazú / Animalario del Iguazú (Children’s
Book Press 2008). In April 2002 he received the Fred Cody Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA)
in San Francisco. He was one of the three finalists nominated for the
state Poet Laureate of California in 2005 and has been selected again
as a finalist for Poet Laureate on June 2008. He did his
undergraduate studies at California State University, Long Beach, and
his graduate studies at Stanford University. He currently teaches
at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Spanish
for Native Speakers Program.
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