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Francisco X. Alarcón and
Lorna Dee Cervantes
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Francisco X. Alarcón is the author of
ten volumes of poetry, most recently Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes / Sonetos a la locura y otras penas
(Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company 2001) and From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche:
New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press 2002). Alarcón is the recipient of 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).
He was one of the three finalists nominated for the state poet laureate of California.
He also writes books for children and teaches at the University of California, Davis.
Read five poems in poetrymagazine.com. Read an article entitled “A poet who writes tattoos,” in Dateline the faculty and staff newspaper for the University of California, Davis. Watch a video
of Lorna Dee Cervantes in a classroom reading her poem “Life on Bird Ave.”
Read the interview
with her in the Michigan Quarterly Review.
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Lorna Dee Cervantes’ first collection
of poetry to appear in 15 years is Drive: The First Quartet (Wings Press, Jan. 2006).
Her first book, Emplumada, (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1981) won an American Book Award; her second,
From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger, (Arte Público Press, 1991) won the Paterson Prize
for Best Book of Poetry (judge—Hayden Carruth) and the Latino Literature Award. She was awarded a prestigious
Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award, has performed her poetry twice at the Library of Congress, and presented at
The Dodge Poetry Festival and numerous other venues, university & college campuses in the US, Mexico, Spain &
Colombia. She founded the influential small press & Chicano literary journal, MANGO Publications, which
was the first to publish many Chicano and Chicana authors including Sandra Cisneros,
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alberto Rios, and Ray Gonzalez.
