The Poetry Night Reading Series is proud to welcome Francisco X. Alarcón to the Bistro 33 stage on Wednesday, January 5th at 8 P.M.
Bi-national, bi-cultural, and bilingual poet and educator Francisco X. Alarcón is an award-winning author of ten volumes of poetry for both children and adults. 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. Alarcón’s books include Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes / Sonetos a la locura y otras penas, From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems, and, most recently, from Swan Scythe Press, Ce•Uno•One: Poems para el Nuevo Sol / Poems for the New Sun, which includes translations of the poems in English, Spanish, Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, Mapuche, the language of indigenous people of Argentina and Chile, and Gaelic, the original language of Ireland. Alarcón teaches for the Department of Spanish at the University of California, Davis.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early at Bistro 33 to secure a seat, and to sign up for a spot on the Open Mic list. The Poetry Night Reading Series, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, occurs on the first Wednesday of the month at Bistro 33, and third Thursday of every month at the John Natsoulas Gallery, both at 8 P.M., with an open microphone segment at 9 P.M.
Who: Francisco Alarcon
What: The Poetry Night Reading Series
When: Wednesday, January 5th, 8pm
Where: Bistro 33, at 226 F Street
Media Contact:
Andy Jones
poetry.indavis@gmail.com
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