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The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry with
Adela Najarro, David Dominguez, John Olivares Espinoza,
and Scott Inguito
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edited by Francisco Aragón and published by the University of Arizona Press
presents a generous sampling of work from twenty five emerging Latina and Latino poets writing in English.
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Adela Najarro holds a doctorate in literature and creative writing
from Western Michigan University, as well as an MFA from Vermont College. She currently teaches at Cabrillo College as part
of 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 1940s and concluded in the eighties when the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She has published
poems in numerous journals, including Notre Dame Review, Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose, Blue Mesa Review,
Crab Orchard Review, ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, Artful Dodge, and Cimarron Review. She currently resides in Santa Cruz.
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David Dominguez’s full-length collection of poems,
Work Done Right, was published by the University of Arizona Press, 2003. An earlier collection, Marcoli
Sausage, appeared in 2000 as part of Gary Soto’s Chicano Chapbook Series. In addition to being showcased in the
Poetry in Motion Program and on the web at Poetry Daily, his poems have appeared in various publications including
El Andar, Askew, Bloomsbury Review, Border Senses Literary Magazine (fall 2008), Crab Orchard Review, Faultline,
In the Grove, Pachuco Children Hurl Stones, Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Literary Art (fall 2008), and Solo.
His work has been anthologized in How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets, Heyday Books, 2001;
The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, University of Arizona Press, 2007; in Highway 99: A Literary Journey
through California’s Great Central Valley, 2nd edition, Heyday Books, 2007; and, most recently, in
The Bear Flag Republic, Alcatraz Editions, (2008). He teaches composition and poetry writing at Reedley College.
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John Olivares Espinoza’s poetry has been published in
various journals, anthologies, and chapbooks. Bilingual Press will publish his first full-length collection of poems,
The Date Fruit Elegies, this summer. A native of Southern California, John received his MFA from Arizona State University
and currently teaches writing and literature at The National Hispanic University in San Jose.
Visit John Olivares Espinoza’s website at www.john-olivares-espinoza.com. | |
Scott Inguito, a poet, teacher and painter, lives in San Francisco
and teaches at San Jose City College.
Read two recent poems by Scott Inguito in Shampoo. | |
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