Performance: Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas

An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. 

Alejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights Books (winner of the American Book Award). In non-fiction he has published The Medicine of Memory: A Mexican Clan in California, University of Texas Press. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Currently he is a professor in Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. In 2013 City Lights Books published his new book Stray Poems. His short story, The Other Barrio, was recently released as a full length feature, filmed in the street of the Mission District. He was the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino to hold the position.

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Leticia Hernández-Linares is a poet, interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl, and co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Widely published, her work appears in Other Musics, Latinas: Struggles & Protests, Maestrapeace, Huizache, and Pilgrimage.  A four-time San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grantee, she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. 

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José Héctor Cadena is a poet, scholar and collage artist who grew up along the San Ysidro/Tijuana borderlands. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at The University of Kansas. His work has appeared in Raices y Mas: An Anthology of Young Border Voices, Cipactli, Transfer Magazine, Pacific Review, La Bloga, Red Light Lit and San Diego Poetry Annual.

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