Francisco alarcon poet biography
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Francisco Alarcon
educator, community activist, children’s book writer, gay advocate and a leading Chicano poet
A third-generation Californian whose family founded the town of , Alarcón moved to , when he was 6.
Francisco alarcon poet biography
He returned to when he was 18
parents were cannery workers who didn't finish high school but raised seven children who all became professionals. Alarcón's four brothers and two sisters are a surgeon, an architect, a priest, a dentist, an engineer and an advertising agency executive.
His family was named's Latino Family of the Year.
Alarcón started writing poetry when he was "I wanted to transcribe the songs my grandmother used to sing. Sometimes I would forget the lines so I would make up those lines”
He thought at the time that the songs were traditional Mexican folk songs but later learned that the words were his grandmother's own, in her native Nahuatl language
Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation.
Alarcón's Ph.D.
studies, when he was conducting research