Zoot Suit
Ignacio Gomez, 2002
screenprint
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Gift of Ricardo
and Harriett Romo, 2011.51.1
© 1978, Ignacio Gomez
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October 10-12, 2015
Sacramento, CA
@
Crocker Art Museum
The Sacramento Poetry Center
Francisco X. Alarcón (workshop facilitator) is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including, Ce•Uno•One: Poemas para el Nuevo Sol / 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), Sonetos a la locura y otras penas / 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), De amor oscuro / Of Dark
Love (Moving Parts Press 1991, and 2001), Body in Flames / Cuerpo en llamas (Chronicle Books l990). Poetic
Matrix Press will publish order Borderless
Butterflies / Mariposas sin fronteras at the end of Summer of 2014 and the
University of Arizona Press will also publish his bilingual poetry book, Canto hondo / Deep Song at the end of
2014.
He is the
recipient of several literary prizes, including the Before Columbus
Foundation’s 1993 American Book Award, the 1993 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles
Award, and the 1984 Chicano Literary Prize.
In April 2002 he received the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) in San Francisco.
He is also the co-founder of Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol, a collective of poets and writers based in Sacramento, CA.
In 2010, he created "Poets Responding to SB 1070" on Facebook, which has close to 8000 members, 600,000 visits, 3,200 poems posted, thousands of comments, daily and weekly hits:
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JoAnn Anglin
has been active with and inspired by Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol/Writers of
the New Sun since its beginnings 20 years ago. She has had poems
published in several anthologies and literary journals, and has been a featured
reader at many poetry venues, e.g., libraries, nature centers, clubs, churches,
cafés, and museums. A member of California Poets in the Schools and the
Sacramento Poetry Center, she has taught poetry writing in schools, at a Senior
Home, and currently at Folsom State Prison. A coach for the Poetry Out Loud
program and the current coordinator of the Writers of the New Sun, JoAnn has
received District Arts Awards from Sacramento City and County.
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Paul Aponte
is a Chicano poet born in San Jose, California USA, and now a proud citizen of
Sacramento. Paul, was a member of the performance poetry group
"Poetas Of The Obsidian Tongue" in the 90's, and now is a member of
"Escritores del Nuevo Sol". He writes poetry in Spanish,
English, and Spanglish, and enjoys breaking writing rules to communicate a
truth in expression that can be seen in his writings.
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Born in Ecuador and
raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is
the author of four poetry chapbooks, most recently, To the Break of Dawn.
He has taught creative writing workshops to inmates in Rikers Island
Penitentiary, at-risk youth in the Bronx, foster teens in San Jose, bilingual
elementary students in East Oakland, and to adults through the Oakland Public
Library's Oakland Word program. He is a Bronx Recognizes Its Own,
CantoMundo, San Francisco Intergenerational Writers Lab, and VONA: Voices of
Our Nations Arts Foundation poetry fellow. Oscar makes his home in Oakland,
with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes. For more information, please
visit: www.oscarbermeo.com.
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Maya Chinchilla,
the author of The Cha Cha Files: A
Chapina Poética (Korima Press, 2014) is a Guatemalan, Bay Area-based
writer, video artist, and educator with an MFA in English and Creative Writing
from Mills College. She writes and performs poetry that explores themes of
historical memory, heartbreak, tenderness, sexuality, and alternative futures.
Her work —sassy, witty, performative, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of
truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry.
Born
and raised in Long Beach, CA, by a mixed class, mixed race, immigrant activist
extended family, Maya has lived and loved in the Bay Area for the second half
of her life. Her work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz, Sinister Wisdom, Americas y
Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies, Cipactli Journal, and The Lunada Literary Anthology, and is quoted (and misquoted) in essays,
presentations and books on U.S.-Central American poetics; Chicana/Latina
literature; and identity, gender, and sexuality.
Maya is a founding member of
the performance group Las Manas, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La
Raza in San Francisco, CA, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, CA, and is
a VONA Voices and Dos Brujas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central
American Poetry and Art and
is a lecturer at San Francisco State University and UC Davis
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Born in Jáltipan, Veracruz, México, Lucha Corpi was nineteen when she came
to Berkeley as a student wife in 1964. Corpi is the author of two collections
of poetry: Palabras de mediodía/Noon
Words and Variaciones sobre una
tempestad/Variations on a Storm (Spanish with English translations by
Catherine Rodríguez Nieto), two bilingual children’s books: Where Fireflies Dance/Ahí, donde bailan las
luciérnagas and The Triple Banana
Split Boy/El niño goloso. She is also the author of six novels, four of
which feature Chicana detective Gloria Damasco: Eulogy for a Brown Angel, Cactus
Blood, Black Widow’s Wardrobe, and Death
at Solstice. Her newest book, Confessions of a Book Burner: Personal
Essays and Stories, was published
by Arte Publico Press in April, 2014. Corpi has been the recipient of numerous
awards and citations, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in
poetry, an Oakland Cultural Arts fellowship in fiction, the PEN-Oakland
Josephine Miles Award and the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Literary Award
for fiction, and two International Latino Book Awards for her mystery fiction.
Until 2005, she was a tenured teacher in the Oakland Public Schools
Neighborhood Centers.
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Nancy Aidé González
is a Chicana poet, educator, and activist. She graduated from California
State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English
Literature. Her work has appeared in Huizache The magazine of
Latino literature, Mujeres De Maiz Zine, DoveTales, Tule Review, Seeds of Resistance
Flor y Canto: Tortilla Warrior, La Bloga, and several other literary
journals.
Her work is featured in the Sacramento
Voices: Foam at the Mouth Anthology, Lowriting:Shots
Rides & Stories from the Chicano Soul, and Twenty: In Memoriam.
She hosts Mosaic of Voices, a poetry
series which features multicultural poets in Sacramento. She is a participating member of Escritores del Nuevo
Sol.
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Xico
González is an
educator, artist, poet, and a political and cultural activista based
in Sacramento, California. He received a MA in Spanish from Sacramento
State, and an MFA in Art Studio from UC Davis. González is member of Sol
Collective, a cultural center that promotes art, culture, and activism in
Sacramento. González currently teaches Spanish and Art Studio at the Met
Sacramento High School.
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Javier O. Huerta
is the author of Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007),
which received the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine, and American
Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012). His poems have recently been
anthologized in American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for
Social Justice, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, and
Everyman's Library Art and Artists: Poems. He lives in Berkeley,
California.
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Originally from
Mexico, Paco Marquez is a former
board member of the Sacramento Poetry Center, a Squaw Valley and Surprise
Valley workshops alumnus, and a member of Escritores del Nuevo Sol. He is
currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at NYU, where he is poetry editor
of the graduate journal, Washington Square. He is also assistant editor
at OccuPoetry, an online progressive journal. His work has appeared in Occupoetry.org,
Late Peaches: Poems by Sacramento Poets, and the 2013 Squaw Valley
Review. Paco was on of the poets selected for the Sacramento Metropolitan
Art Commission’s Del Paso Words & Walls Project, and he was recently
featured as Lo-Writer of the Week in Juan Felipe Herrera’s California Poet
Laureate website.
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Gerardo Pacheco
Matus, a Mayan Native, was born in
Huhi, Yucatan, Mexico. Pacheco crawled across The United States’ border
at age 16. Pacheco’s Mayan and Mexican heritage influences his writing. Pacheco
uses their magic and history to bridge these two worlds that have been in
conflict. Pacheco’s writing deals with migration's social and cultural
hardships. Pacheco’s poems have appeared in Cipactli Magazine, Transfer
Magazine, El Tecolote Newspaper, LA BLOGA Online Magazine, The Amistad Howard
University Journal and Spillway Magazine. In 2012, The San Francisco Foundation
awarded Pacheco the distinguished Joseph Henry Jackson Award. In 2013, The
Grantmakers in the Arts awarded Pacheco a stipend to support his writing, and
also featured an excerpt of his current book project, The Child of the
Grasses. In 2015, Black Lawrence Press will publish Pacheco’s firs literary
essay, “Institutionalized: My Influences as an American Poet.” Pacheco’s first
poetry collection, This Is Crow Land, is forthcoming from Jambu Press in
2014.
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Maceo Montoya is an internationally exhibiting artist and the author of The
Scoundrel and the Optimist (Bilingual Press, 2010), awarded the 2011
International
Latino Book Award for “Best First Book,” The Deportation of
Wopper Barraza (University of New Mexico Press, 2014), and Letters to
the Poet from His Brother (Copilot Press, 2014). In 2013, Latino Stories
named him one of its “Top Ten New Latino Writers to Watch.” Montoya is an
assistant professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis. He lives
in Woodland, CA.
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Adela Najarro currently teaches at Cabrillo College as the English
instructor for the Puente Project, a program designed to support Latinidad in
all its aspects, while preparing community college students to transfer to four
year colleges and universities. Her extended family’s emigration from Nicaragua
to San Francisco began in the 1940’s and concluded in the eighties when the
last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She holds a doctorate in
literature and creative writing from Western Michigan University, as well as an
M.F.A. from Vermont College. Her poetry appears in the University of Arizona
Press anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino
Poetry, and she has published poems in numerous journals, including Porter Gulch Review, Acentos Review,
BorderSenses, Feminist Studies, Puerto del Sol, Nimrod International Journal of
Poetry & Prose, Notre Dame Review, Blue Mesa Review, Crab Orchard Review, and
elsewhere. She has three forthcoming books in 2015: Twice Told Over, full-length poetry collection from Unsolicited
Press, Split Geography, a poetry
chapbook from Mouthfeel Press, and Fostering Habits of Mind in Today’s Students:
A New Approach to Developmental Education from Stylus Publishing, edited with her colleagues Jennifer
Fletcher and Hetty Yelland.
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Graciela B. Ramírez, for 25 years, was an instructor in Spanish and Ethnic
Studies in California State University, Sacramento. She has published poetry
and memoirs in different anthologies, plus a book in poetry titled: Educación, Una Epica Chicana. For 11 years she was
the coordinator of the 20-year-old group: Escritores del Nuevo Sol and helped
edit the group’s anthology, Voces del
Nuevo Sol. She has read poetry in
different venues in Sacramento, Davis, San Francisco and other places. And she
participated in Third World Poetry readings at CSUS where she also organized
poetry programs in the Foreign Languages Department.
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Joseph Rios was born and raised in the Central San
Joaquin Valley. He is the author of the poetry manuscript, "Shadowboxing:
Poems and Impersonations," a finalist for a Willow Books Literary award.
His poems have appeared or are forthcoming from Huizache, Bozalta,
New Border, Poets Responding to SB1070, and Hector Tobar's blog
for Los Angeles Times Books. In addition to published work, Joseph has
recorded for radio programs such as: Pakatelas, Words on a Wire, and Nuestra
Palabra. He has been a featured reader for San Francisco's highly acclaimed
LitCrawl, Galeria de la Raza's Lunada, and the Lyrics and
Dirges series in Berkeley. This July, he welcomed the first writer to Dona
Helen's, a residency for writers at his Grandparents' longtime home in
Clovis, CA. He studied literature at UC Berkeley and Fresno City College. He
lives in Oakland.
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Sandra
Garcia Rivera is
an award-winning Nuyorican poet and vocalist, based in the San Francisco Bay
Area. She has captured audiences throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, Cuba, and
Europe as a solo artist and alongside musical legends. She has published two
chapbooks: Shoulder High, and Divination of the Mistress, and published two
handmade book art editions of her highly acclaimed poem That Kiss (Ediciones
Mixta, NYC). She has been anthologized in Caribbean Erotic, Breaking
Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012, Centro Journal,
Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana, and Urban Latino Magazine. She is currently a
teaching artist with WritersCorps, and the curator & host of Lunada
Literary Lounge at Galería de la Raza. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Antioch
University.
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Odilia Galván Rodríguez, is an eco-poet/writer, activist, editor, and educator of
Chicano-Tinde ancestry. She was born in Galveston, Texas and raised on the
south side of Chicago. She is the author of four books of poetry, of which Red Earth Calling ~cantos for the 21st
century~, is her latest. Her writing
has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including, Unraveling The Spreading Cloth Of Time:
Indigenous Thoughts Concerning The Universe, Peace Is A Haiku Song, ¡Ban This! The Bsp Anthology
of Xican@ Literature, ZYZZYVA, Our Spirit, Our Reality ~ Celebrating Our
Stories, The En'owkin Journal of First
North American Peoples, New Chicana / Chicano Writing: 1& 2,
Reinventing the Enemy's Language:
Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America, Here is my kingdom: Hispanic-American
literature and art for young people. Her work has also appeared online in
publications such as: Poets United, Road To Ife Magazine, Beltway Poetry
Quarterly, Heart on a Plate: Recipes and Poetry of Love, and La Bloga. She is also one of the
co-founders of Poets Responding to SB1070, a Facebook page dedicated to calling
attention to the unjust laws passed in Arizona which target Latinos, and
teaches Empowering People Through
Creative Writing Workshops nationally.
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Harold Terezón is an educator and poet from Pacoima, CA. He
received the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Literary Award in 2013.
Heserved as a teaching artist for WritersCorps from 2011-2013, helping San
Francisco youth find their voice through poetry and writing. His work has
appeared in POECOLOGY, Puerto del Sol, PALABRA, Rushing
Waters Rising Dreams: How the Arts Are Transforming a Community, and The
Acentos Review, among other publications. He is currently teaching
poetry at City College of San Francisco and working on Hunting Izotes, a
collection of poems inspired by his family's immigrant experience.
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The PINTURA : PALABRA workshops
are made possible thanks, in part,
to the generosity of the Weissberg Foundation
and individual donors.
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