Podcast appearances and mentions of Francisco X Alarc

On your knees with the queens in the poetry darkroom,  poetic pleasures await! Then we wipe off our kneecaps before hitting the Pride Parade.If you'd like to support Breaking Form:Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTESTess Gallagher's "Stopping Place" is from her book Willingly.Donna Stonecipher's "Inlay 18 (Sei Shõnagun)" is from her book The Cosmopolitan. Read a bit about the book here. Sei Shōnagon's actual given name is not known. It was the custom among aristocrats in those days to call a court lady by a nickname taken from a court office belonging to her father or husband. Sei Shōnagon (c. 966–1017 or 1025) was a Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book.The Dick Dock in Provincetown is so popular it has its own Facebook page. Or check out this Youtube video called "Provincetown's Dick Dock: Making Gay Sex Magic!"If you want to know more about the history of the Meat Rack on Fire Island, here's a good starting place. Read Ocean Vuong's poem "Theology"Marilyn Nelson's "For Mary, Fourth Month" is available in her The Fields of Praise: New and Selected. Jim Powell did indeed win a MacArthur in 1993. Read more poems by Powell here.Read Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of the Desperado"Read more about Osip MandelstamKevin Prufer's book of poems The Fears won the Rilke Prize. Read the judges' citation here. Visit Michelle Tea's website here. Or read an excerpt from her poem "I Used to Be Straight" here (scroll down).Read Franny Choi's "Unlove Poem" Read "Prayer/Oracion" by Francisco X. Alarcón, trans. Francisco Aragón Read "American Wedding" by Essex HemphillHere's June Jordan's fiery "Poem About My Rights" You can read torrin a. greathouse's "Aubade Beginning in Handcuffs" here. 

Welcome to Season 2 of Fahrenheit 140! We are kicking off this season with a bang by bringing you with us to celebrate Earth Day 2024! Join us for engaging conversations with a few of our key partners, including BlueTriton Brands and the Texas State University Office of Sustainability alongside our very own Deputy Director of Spring Lake Education, Miranda Wait – all recorded live at the 11th Annual Earth Day San Marcos Festival! Get an inside look at their current and future climate resilience projects and get tips on what daily choices we can all make to bring the spirit of Earth Day to every day.  In this episode, our co-hosts bring you the latest climate news covering several topics:  Warming temperatures mean a prolonged kitten season – giving you a purr-fect excuse to adopt another cat. (02:05)  Insurance companies are pulling out of states due to unpredictable and more severe weather – learn how this could affect you in Texas (05:39)  Learn how Border, a town in Texas, was saved from the recent historic Smokehouse Creek wildfire by fighting fire with fire – how controlled burns may be an important adaptation in the face of severe drought (08:27)  Snake Farms: Could Burmese pythons be the climate-friendly alternative to cattle ranching? (10:43) Interviews with our esteemed partners, BlueTriton Brands and the Office of Sustainability, along with the Deputy Director of Spring Lake Education, Miranda Wait unpack:  From apprehension to excitement, how views on climate education may be shifting with the rise of mindfulness and outdoor recreation (20:32) From “drop to drink” the sustainability and stewardship practices of BlueTriton Brands and the “Every Drop Counts” scholarship (26:37) How to protect the sensitive areas around Texas State University campus (35:10) Robert Mace ties it all in a bow by reading Flower Song, a beautiful poem by Francisco X. Alarcón, a Chicano poet and educator. (40:33) Episode Links and Resources:  Kitten season is out of control. Are warmer winters to blame? (Grist) Climate change is fueling the US insurance problem (BBC) Texas Map Shows Where State Will Become Underwater From Sea Level Rise (News Week)  As climate change intensifies wildfire risk, prescribed burns prove their worth in the heat-stressed Panhandle (Texas Tribune) Pythons are eating the Everglades. Could eating them instead help fight climate change? (Miami Herald)  Our History (EarthDay.org)  Carl B. Stokes and the 1969 River Fire (National Park Service) Flower Song / Flor y Canto / In Xochitl In Cuicatl (poets.org)  Learn more about our partners:  BlueTriton Brands  Texas State University Office of Sustainability  Theme song:   Syzygy by Robert E. Mace    Songs Used:  Snake Farm by Wylie Hubbard  White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane    We would like to thank pixabay.com for providing our sound effects, and Desiree Jackson for gathering candid interviews with Earth Day enthusiasts.  For more information about the Meadows Center, visit meadowscenter.txst.edu.   

It is an intimate thing, to watch a lover while they sleep. In Francisco Aragón's translation of Francisco X. Alarcón's homoerotic poem, “Asleep You Become a Continent,” a man views his sleeping lover's body like it's a landscape: legs underneath sheets become mountains and valleys. The waking lover describes this view like an explorer might an unknown country; wondering what he will find.Francisco X. Alarcón was an award-winning Chicano poet and educator. He authored fourteen volumes of poetry, published seven books for children, and taught at the University of California, Davis, where he directed the Spanish for Native Speakers Program.Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. His books include After Rubén (Red Hen Press, 2020), Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press, 2010), and Puerta de Sol (Bilingual Review Press, 2005).  He's also the editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007). A native of San Francisco, CA, he is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies, where he directs their literary initiative, Letras Latinas. His work has appeared in over twenty anthologies and various literary journals. He has read his work widely, including at universities, bookstores, art galleries, the Dodge Poetry Festival, and the Split This Rock Poetry Festival. He divides his time between South Bend, IN, and Mililani, HI.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Francisco Aragón's translation, and invite you to read Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound book, or listen back to all our episodes.

Francisco Aragón shares poems alive with the vibrancy of a particular voice addressed to a particular audience. He introduces Francisco X. Alarcón’s bittersweet homage to a poetic ancestor (“Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón”), Thom Gunn’s farewell address to a beloved fellow writer (“To Isherwood Dying”), and Denise Levertov’s mythic, ecstatic monologue on transformation (“A Tree Telling of Orpheus”). Aragón concludes the episode with a direct address of his own that challenges Arizona’s SB 1070 (“Poem with a Phrase of Isherwood”). Listen to the full recordings of Alarcón, Gunn, and Levertov reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Francisco X. Alarcón (2008)Thom Gunn (1986)Denise Levertov (1973)

Rasa offers a new perspective on life. Jeremy asks a vexing question about Bollywood. In between, they discuss "A Blank White Page" by Francisco X. Alarcón.

In today's episode listen to the conversation between host Daniel Chacon and poet Francisco Aragon about his most recent work ‘About Rubén.’ Aragon’s poems and translations have appeared in various print and online journals, as well as numerous anthologies. His work as a translator includes four books by Francisco X. Alarcón, as well as work by Spanish poets Federico García Lorca and Gerardo Diego.

Today's poem is The Birds of New York by Francisco X. Alarcón.

The program features Noticias Sin Fronteras, News from the Americas, a commentrary from Mumia Abu Jamal from Prison Radio, a conversation with Detention Watch Network on what's being done to End Family Detention and we'll hear the poetry of ‪#‎Chicano‬ poets Auturo Mantecon, Charles Mariano and Francisco X. Alarcón & New Book.