EVENT: San Francisco—FLORICANTO EN LA MISIÓN-A Collective Poetry Reading by 40 Poets In Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of EL TECOLOTE

FLORICANTO EN LA MISIÓN-A Collective Poetry Reading by 40 Poets In Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of EL TECOLOTE

by Poets Responding to SB 1070 on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 3:08pm


FLORICANTO EN LA MISIÓN
A Collective Poetry Reading by 40 Poets
In Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of EL TECOLOTE
In Collaboration with the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

Sunday August 29 at the Mission Cultural Center, 7-10 pm
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110; $5 donation

On August 2010, EL TECOLOTE, the bilingual newspaper serving the Latino community of San Francisco and beyond, is celebrating 40 years of existence. A special 20-page edition of REVISTA LITERARIA DE EL TECOLOTE was released on July 28, 2010. A hard-copy poetry anthology featuring the works of established poets as well as those of emerging new voices is in process at the moment. This collective reading of 40 Bay Area poets is a fundraising benefit for this special issue and the planned anthology.

Music by Francisco Herrera Brambila

MC’s: Francisco X. Alarcón & Nina Serrano

Invited poets by alphabetical order:
Francisco X. Alarcón • Jorge Tetl Argueta • Cathy Arellano • Adrián Arias • Avotcja • Devreaux Baker • Charles Blackwell • Lorna Dee Cervantes • Estela de la Cruz • Patricia Fernández Villaseñor • Paul Flores • Xico González • Rafael Jesús González • Q.R. Hand Jr. • Leticia Hernández-Linares • Beatriz Herrera • Juan Felipe Herrera • Jack Hirschman, former San Francisco Poet Laureate • Genny Lim • Mamacoatl • devorah major, former San Francisco Poet Laureate • Jacqueline Méndez • Dorinda Moreno • Alejandro Murguía • Joe Navarro • Gerardo Pacheco Matus • Naomi Quiñonez • Margarita Robles • Nina Serrano • Mamacoatl • reina alejandra prado • Tomás Riley • Miguel Robles • John Ross • Mary Rudge, Alameda Poet Laureate • Alfonso Texidor • Roberto Vargas • .Roberto Ariel Vargas • Vickie Vértiz • Nellie Wong

For more information contact:
Eva Martínez (415) 648-1045; <poeta@accionlatina.org>;
Francisco Alarcon <fjalarcon@ucdavis.edu>

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