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Imaginary Animal Test Recording by Poetita

Rachelle escamilla is a Chicana poet from Hollister, California. her nationally award winning first book is slated to become an off broadway play. Rachelle is the founder of a number of poetry programs all over the world, she is a scholar recognized by the Library of Congress and a community-based activist whose research and work includes the fair treatment of migrant workers, anti-fracking and most recently the Decriminalization of Psilocybin. She lives in Monterey, Ca and does media and marketing for the Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival.

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James Cordero, Co-director of Water Drops for Border Angels San Diego.

Raul Zurita & Poetry -- is there poetry without pain?

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HCOM 110 Week 12 Sound Lecture CSUMB Final Persuasive Speech "Targeting El Paso"

HCOM 227 Week 10 SP 2020 For Colored Girls Last Lesson by Poetita

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For Colored Girls Penultimate Lesson.

New Google Folder for Both Sections Updated Syllabus Updated Lecture Notes (you are here) Discuss Midterm Midterm Requirements Document Midterm Sample Document Midterm Self Reflection Complete Listening Journals 4 (Chapter 9) and Journal 5 (Chapter 10 part 1 and 2) Begin Watching “No Logo” -- be sure to take notes -- we will be using this to develop topics for our Finals

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He earned a BA at Sacramento State University and is the first undocumented student to earn an MFA at the University of Michigan. In this pre-recorded reading, Marcelo is reading from and discussing his groundbreaking, debut novel, Children of the Land. In conversation with Castillo is Nathan Xavier Osorio who is also a poet and essayist. This interview was recorded on February 11, 2020 at Book Shop Santa Cruz.

"In All the Fierce Complexities of Hunger, Tim J. Myers shows a poetic range that is astonishing. It seems impossible, but his book is a masterful collection of poems both traditional and experimental, both lyric and narrative, both funny and serious, both comforting and disturbing, both long and short, both contemporary and historical. Is there anything he can’t do? It would appear not, as I was wowed from the first poem--with its linguistic nod to Gerard Manley Hopkins--to the last, with its gorgeous echoes of W. S. Merwin. This is one of those rare books that will, in some way, speak to every reader." --Dean Rader, author of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry and editor of Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence

Matt Sedillo is a Chicano poet, writer, creative director and public intellectual. He has been called “the poet laureate of the struggle” by Dr. Paul Ortiz and “the best political poet in America” by investigative journalist Greg Palast. Sedillo has been featured at over 90 colleges and universities including the University of Cambridge and a recent appearance at San Jose City College. He has been invited by countless cultural institutions, including Casa De Las Americas and has been featured on various media outlets including The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and C-Span. He is the current literary director of the Center for the Arts in Pomona, California. His first book is called “Mowing Leaves of Grass” published by FLowerSong Books.

IN HINDI MEANING HOPE ASHA is an Artist, Educator, and Revolutionary. Originally from LA, ASHA is currently an 8th grade teacher in San Jose. She is an international poet, striving to use art to create radical change. ASHA has been featured on the cover of Content Magazine, is a feature at many of the prominent poetry events in the Bay Area, as well as active speaker, emcee, and performer at numerous rallies and marches for civil and human rights. ASHA was the focus of a recent short documentary by KQED ARTS. She was given the Hank Hutchins award by the Santa Clara County Alliance of Black Educators for supporting and advocating for black youth. She is actively training educators across California on equitable practices and building student agency. She is certified as a facilitator through Teaching Tolerance. Her dream is to establish her own K-12 school rooted in restorative justice and social justice based standards. ASHA consistently uses her platform to voice out against injustice and to speak up for those who have been marginalized and silenced for centuries.

Oakland-based writer MK Chavez is a champion for public health and social justice. She is the author of several chapbooks, including MOTHERMORPHOSIS (Nomadic Press, 2016). DEAR ANIMAL, is her first full-length collection of poetry. Chavez is co-founder and co-curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges, curator of the Fruitvale Friday readings at Nomadic Press, co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, and recipient of a 2016 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to challenge all forms of oppression.

"She approaches words as reference points, rather than endpoints. By reimagining language, she exerts control over her sense of self.”—Los Angeles Review of Books ARISA WHITE is a Cave Canem fellow, Sarah Lawrence College alumna, an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the poetry chapbooks Disposition for Shininess, Post Pardon, Black Pearl, Perfect on Accident, and “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won the inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. Published by Virtual Artists Collective, her debut full-length collection, Hurrah’s Nest, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards, 82nd California Book Awards, and nominated for a 44th NAACP Image Awards. Her second collection, A Penny Saved, inspired by the true-life story of Polly Mitchell, was published by Willow Books, an imprint of Aquarius Press in 2012. Her newest full-length collection, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, was published by Augury Books and nominated for the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. Most recently, Arisa co-authored, with Laura Atkins, Biddy Mason Speaks Up, a middle-grade biography in verse on the midwife and philanthropist Bridget “Biddy” Mason, which is the second book in the Fighting for Justice series. Arisa was awarded a 2013-14 Cultural Funding grant from the City of Oakland to create the libretto and score for Post Pardon: The Opera, and received, in that same year, an Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to fund the dear Gerald project, which takes a personal and collective look at absent fathers. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa curates poetic collaborations that center narratives of women, queer, and trans people of color. Selected by the San Francisco Bay Guardian for the 2010 Hot Pink List, Arisa was a 2011-13 member of the PlayGround writers’ pool. Recipient of the inaugural Rose O’Neill Literary House summer residency at Washington College in Maryland, she has also received residencies, fellowships, or scholarships from The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Headlands Center for the Arts, Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Hedgebrook, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prague Summer Program, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2005, 2014, 2016, and 2018, her poetry has been published widely and is featured on the recording WORD with the Jessica Jones Quartet. A native New Yorker, living in central Maine, Arisa serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press and is an advisory board member for Gertrude. As a visiting scholar at San Francisco State University’s The Poetry Center in 2016, she developed a digital special collections on Black Women Poets in The Poetry Center Archives. Arisa is as an assistant professor in creative writing at Colby College. For booking inquiries, contact Allison Connor at Jack Jones Literary Arts.

Annis Cassells poet from Bakersfield, California reads from her collection called "You Can't Have It All"

Latinx Poetix Symposium at CSUMB with Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Manuel Paul Lopez, Norma Liliana Valdez, Shirley Ramos, Blas Falconer. April 2019

Sergio Herrera and Ashley Cristina on KKUP

A Wyoming native and second-generation Japanese American, Roripaugh studied music, earning a BM in piano performance and an MM in music history before earning an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Beyond Heart Mountain (1999), which was selected by Ishmael Reed for the National Poetry Series; Year of the Snake (2004); On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (2009); and Dandarians (Milkweed, 2014). In 2015 she was appointed poet laureate of South Dakota. In Beyond Heart Mountain, Roripaugh drew on her heritage and life in the American West to create a series of portraits in the voices of Japanese American internees at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. In Year of the Snake she explores issues of mixed-race identity, myths, Japanese fairy tales, and metaphors of transformation. Poems in On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year delve into the lives of contemporary women, with a nod to Lady Murasaki; poet Maura Stanton identified “desire, along with its many disguises and tricks” as a theme of the collection. Roripaugh’s awards include a Bush Artist Foundation Individual Fellowship and the 1995 Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize.

Manuel Paul López’s books include These Days of Candy (Noemi Press, 2017), The Yearning Feed (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), winner of the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, 1984 (Amsterdam Press, 2010) and Death of a Mexican and Other Poems (Bear Star Press, 2006). He also co-edited Reclaiming Our Stories (City Works Press, 2016). A CantoMundo fellow, his work has been published in Bilingual Review, Denver Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Huizache, Puerto del Sol, and ZYZZYVA, among others. He lives in San Diego and teaches at San Diego City College.

Toi Derricotte is an American poet and recently retired from her post at University of Pittsburgh where she taught writing. Toi won a 2012 Pen Award for Poetry and is the co-founder with Cornelius Eady of Cave Canem Foundation, a summer workshop for African-American poets. Naomi Edwards holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Pittsburgh. Her poetry has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Pittsburgh. Community Calendar:

MFA in Poetry from Emerson College ('08), BA in Poetry from Pacific Lutheran University ('06). Lecturer in School of Humanities & Communication at California State University Monterey Bay ('13-present), Associate Poetry Editor for Black Lawrence Press ('10-13), Book Reviewer for Zoland ('12-13), Chief Editor of "Saxifrage" literary arts journal ('04-06), Poetry Reader for "Redivider" ('06-07). PUBLICATIONS AND PRIZES Anthologies: Crack the Spine XVI (CreateSpace, 2017), Montreal Prize 2013 Global Poetry Anthology (Vehicule Press, 2013), Poetry on Buses 2004: Facts & Fictions (4Culture, 2004) Journals: 322 Review, Able Muse, Angel City Review, Anomalous Press, Arbor Vitae, Artifice, Bellevue Literary Review, Breadcrumb Scabs, Crack the Spine, Eratio Poetry Journal, Fence, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Gambol, Hobble Creek Review, Homestead Review, Mad Hatters' Review, Monterey Poetry Review, Oranges & Sardines, Pearl Magazine, Ploughshares, Poetry Flash, Poetry Quarterly, Poets & Artists, Prairie Schooner, Provincetown Magazine, Rock & Sling, Saxifrage, Softblow, Soundzine, The Battered Suitcase, Brooklyn Rail, Thin Air Magazine, Word For/Word, zoland poetry

Dana Gioia on KKUP by Poetita

Tim J. Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and senior lecturer at Santa Clara University. He made the New York Times children's bestseller list, and his books for kids--15 out and two in press--have won recognition Kirkus and NPR, among others. He’s published over 140 poems, won a first prize in a poetry contest judged by John Updike, has four books of adult poetry out, won a major prize in science fiction, and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. His His Glad to Be Dad: A Call to Fatherhood won the Ben Franklin Digital Award from the IBPA and reached #5 on Amazon's "Hot New Releases in Fatherhood." Tim won the West Coast Songwriters Saratoga Chapter Song of the Year award and the 2012 Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators Magazine Merit Award for Fiction. Find him at www.TimMyersStorySong.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TimJMyers1.

Marc Zegans is a working poet and spoken word artist. His collections include The Underwater Typewriter, Boys in the Woods, Pillow Talk, and The Book of Clouds. He has recorded two albums, Night Work and Marker and Parker, the latter in collaboration with pianist Don Parker. Marc has worked regularly in immersive theater as a producer, author and performer, and has been introducing audiences to the Typewriter Underground in live performances since 2016. Marc’s Typewriter Underground saw its debut as a full theatrical production directed by Janice Blaze Rocke at the Henry Miller Library, Big Sur in June 2018. He lives by the coast in Northern California. Marc’s poetry can be found at marczegans.com, and he can be reached for creative advisory services at mycreativedevelopment.com.

Adela Najarro is the author of three poetry collections: My Childrens, Split Geography, Twice Told Over. Along with her colleagues, Jennifer Fletcher and Hetty Yelland, she edited Fostering Habits of Mind in Today’s Students: A New Approach to Developmental Education. She currently teaches at Cabrillo College as the English instructor for 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 1940’s and concluded in the eighties when the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She holds a doctorate in literature and creative writing from Western Michigan University, as well as an M.F.A. from Vermont College. Her poetry appears in the University of Arizona Press anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, and she has published poems in numerous journals, including Porter Gulch Review, Acentos Review, BorderSenses, Feminist Studies, Puerto del Sol, Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose, Notre Dame Review, Blue Mesa Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. She now calls Santa Cruz home.

David Soto Jr. is a retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant who didn't realize until reaching his forties that he was a writer. As a child, he struggled with learning disabilities, which yielded him grades that barely earned him his high school diploma. With marks like that, the thought of being an author never occurred to him and college was out of the question. He joined the military and retired 23 years later. The same week David took off the uniform for the last time, never to put it back on, he hit the road traveling the U.S. in his van. David has penned several fitness and nutrition articles and books, but after listening to On Writing by Stephen King, he decided to give writing fiction a try. He started out with a novel about an Air Force Sergeant who's PTSD caused him to do terrible things in his sleep and continued his venture into fiction with Los Chocolates de Esperanza Diamante.

Jonathan Marcantoni is an American novelist, screenwriter and editor based out of San Antonio, Texas. He is a co-founder and Managing Editor in Chief of Aignos, an independent, royalty publisher that seeks out experimental and innovative fiction and nonfiction. Marcantoni has written has published the novels Communion (with Jean Blasiar), and Traveler's Rest. His work is described as a mix of stream of consciousness, existentialism, surrealism, and ellipsism. Marcantoni blends film and theatrical techniques with his narratives, making the environmental and intellectual musings of his characters as essential to the story as the action and dialogue.

Three lives on the verge of ruin intersect in the small Oregon town of Amity: Pika, a half-Samoan ex-con from California, seeks to deliver justice to his sister’s rapist; Michael, a five-tour Iraq War Marine, faces the cracked mirror of his own embattled soul; and Sissy, a recent convert to Catholicism, must resist the lure of ruthless self-judgment and discover what love is. Determined to escape the past, these characters find themselves sharing the same torn-down house, bordering tweaker poverty and bucolic wine country. Violence and penance, family and legacy, recidivism and post-traumatic stress disorder linger with the heavy rain of desperation. At the center of this storm is five-year old Benji, whose wide-eyed energy and openhearted faith could show all of them how to still be saved. In this unforgettable tale, award-winning author Peter Nathaniel Malae explores the depths of human pain and trauma with cultural authority. Son of Amity is a novel whose voices cry out with truth and vulnerability, never betraying that slight tilt toward hope needed to make the long, hard trek to tomorrow.

Rob Ruck is a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. His documentaries include The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, and other publications and is the author of Tropic of Football: The Remarkable and Bittersweet Rise of Samoans in the NFL (The New Press). He lives in Pittsburgh.

Aidan Stone, producer of "Visions of Cawdor" talks about the project and process of taking Robinson Jeffers' epic poem, Cawdor, into a film.

Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press, 2018), Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), and Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007). Lease’s poems "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" and "Send My Roots Rain" were anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was also anthologized in The Best American Poetry (Robert Creeley, guest editor). Lease's poem “Free Again (Why don’t people)” was published in the New York Times. With Peter Alvarez.

I'm the producer and host of the longest running poetry radio show in the United States: Out of Our Minds on KKUP. I co-founded Sun Yat-sen University's English-language Center for Creative Writing and headed a lecture series at the American Center of the United States Consulate of Guangzhou called "Literature of the Margins." I am the founder of the Poets & Writers Coalition at San Jose State University, the winner of the Virginia de Arujo Academy of American Poets prize and my first book, Imaginary Animal (Willow Books 2015) won their national prize in poetry. I teach Creative Writing and Social Action at California State University Monterey Bay. My nonfiction can be found in In The Red Magazine (South China's Vogue), National Geographic, Benitolink and Mission Village Voice. During the summer of 2018 I was a visiting scholar at the Library of Congress, Hispanic Division, where I conducted research around my grandfather's 1969 testimony for the fair treatment of migrant laborers in California and I recorded poems for the library's archive . I was born and raised in Hollister, California and currently live about 20 minutes west of my hometown.

Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia and Some Clarifications y otros poemas, which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. He studied in the Bilingual Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Currently he teaches at Chabot College in Hayward and lives in Berkeley, California.

Nicole Henares, Maurisa Thompson,Oscar Davis Mendez, Lee Knight Jr. and Yaccaira Salvatierra on KKUP reading poetry.

Hugo Esteban Rodríguez is a Mexican-American educator, writer, poet, and essayist hailing from Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of "...And Other Stories" (2018, La Casita Grande Editores) as well as numerous other short stories, poems, and essays that have appeared in places like The Airgonaut, The Acentos Review, Spirit's Tincture, HeART Journal, Picaroon Poetry, and the Texas Poetry Calendar. His story "The Ritual" was longlisted for Wigleaf's Top 50 and nominated by The Airgonaut for Pushcart prize and Best of the Net consideration. He is formerly an assistant editor for Bartleby Snopes. He graduated from the University of Texas at Brownsville and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. He lives in northwest Houston with his wife and their three furchildren.

Live recording of Deb Busman, Mark Heinlein, Ayaz Pirani and Rachelle Escamilla with DJ Lady Stardust at the CSUMB Salinas Center for Arts and Culture on July 6, 2018. Poetita's Birthday Celebration.

The first reading at Tongo Eisen-Martin's Institute of Advanced Uncertainty featuring Mimi Gonzalez, Tongo Eisen-Martin, QR Hand, Lewis Jordan and Brian Auerbach. Originally recorded on May 8, 2018 in downtown San Francisco. Music featured: La Dame Blanche: Romantica, No Da Para Na y Cuba.

K.M. Rice is a national award-winning screenwriter and author who has worked for both Magic Leap and Weta Workshop. Her four-part Afterworld series launches with the first book, Ophelia. Her first novel, Darkling, is a young adult dark fantasy that now has a companion novel titled The Watcher. Her novella The Wild Frontier is an ode to the American spirit of adventure and seeks to awaken the wildish nature in all of us. She also provided additional writing and research for Middle-earth From Script to Screen: Building the World of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Over the years, her love of storytelling has led to producing and geeking out in various webshows and short films. When not writing or filming, she can be found hiking in the woods, baking, running, and enjoying the company of the many animals on her family ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.

Writers from the Edge Latinx Poets by Poetita

SALINAS, CA FRIDAY, APRIL 13th -- On Friday the 13th at CSUMB’s City Center in downtown Salinas there will be a gathering of poets, Latinx poets to be exact - and although some people may consider this date a harbinger of maliciousness, we’re poets - so we revel in all things odd, dark and uncanny. Perhaps this gathering will be something like a witches sabbath, since these prophetic portents will be travelling from all over the country and convening in New Aztlán. The Latinx Poetix Symposium will be a day filled with poetic discussions, workshops, readings, and perhaps some spells? Join us on Friday the 13th between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. for poetic programming. Here is the lineup for the symposium: Raquel Salas Rivera, 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia Farid Matuk, author of The Real Horse and My Daughter La Chola Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta member of La Vidx Locx, a collective of queer Latinx poets & author of The Easy Body Erick Sáenz, editor of Cheers from the Wasteland and author of the forthcoming Sussuros a Mi Padre Vickie Vértiz, educator and author of Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut The symposium is part of a 2 day event, precluded by the Writers from the Edge Reading Series on Thursday, April 12th at 6 p.m. on CSUMB’s main campus University Center which will include a reading by all five Latinx Poets. Symposium organizers, Angel Dominguez (author of Desgraciado) and Rachelle Escamilla (host of Out of Our Minds) hope that this gathering of Latinx poets will help create a path for an inclusive writing community on CSUMB’s main campus, but also in the heart of Salinas. The goal of the symposium is to provide a safe space for complicated discussion that are specific to the Latinx community. Please see www.latinxpoetix.org for more information.