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I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

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All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.

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I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

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I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

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Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.

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I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let us all listen to each other.

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I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.

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Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

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What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

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Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 27th, 1948

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