Category Archives: Santa Rosa, California

Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County- 5th 100 TPC Reading!

Thank you Susan Lamont & the Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County,CA, for your continued activism! And Thanks, again, to Gaia’s Garden for hosting and to all the poets for participating! Share this!Tweet

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Veterans Day, Peace and Justice Center-Santa Rosa, California

Veterans Day, Peace and Justice Center-Santa Rosa, California ORGANIZER: Susan Lamont CONTACT: peacenik@sonic.net 100 Thousand Poets for Change – Veterans Day Reading Friday, Nov. 11, 8:000 to 10:00 p.m. Poetry, music, and food to commit to working for a world … Continue reading

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Francisco X. Alarcon- Santa Rosa Book Fair

Francisco X. Alarcon will be reading at the Santa Rosa Book Fair and will dedicate his reading to 100 Thousand Poets for Change and The Dream Act.

This is the poem in Spanish and English read as part of the Sonoma County Book Festival in
Santa Rosa, Califonia, on Saturday September 24, 2011, at 12:30 PM, and I dedicated to “100,000
Poets for Change”–Francisco X. Alarcon

Francisco Alarcon
fjalarcon@ucdavis.edu

Francisco X. Alarcón, award winning Chicano poet and educator, is author of twelve volumes of poetry, including, From the Other Side of Night: Selected and New Poems (University of Arizona Press 2002), and Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (Chronicle Books 1992) His latest book is Ce•Uno•One: Poems for the New Sun (Swan Scythe Press 2010). His book of bilingual poetry for children, Animal Poems of the Iguazú (Children’s Book Press 2008), was selected as a Notable Book for a Global Society by the International Reading Association. His previous bilingual book titled Poems to Dream Together (Lee & Low Books 2005) was awarded the 2006 Jane Addams Honor Book Award. He has been a finalist nominated for Poet Laureate of California in two occasions. He teaches at the University of California, Davis. He is the creator of the Facebook page POETS RESPONDING TO SB 1070 that you can visit at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poets-Responding-to-SB-1070/117494558268757?ref=ts

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Peace and Justice Center EVENT- Santa Rosa

ORGANIZER: Susan Lamont, Peace and Justice Center CONTACT: peacenik@sonic.net TIME: Friday, September 23 · 8:00pm – 10:00pm LOCATION: Gaia’s Garden 1899 Mendocino Ave. Santa Rosa, California A celebration of the art of poetry and its role in social change! The event in Santa Rosa is … Continue reading

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