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Erika L. Sánchez (born c. 1984) is an American poet and writer. She is the author of poetry collection Lessons on Expulsion, a young adult novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir. She was a professor at DePaul University.
Chicano poets reframed the Pachuco figure of the 1940s, who was historically looked down upon by the Mexican American community. [2] One of the most notable poems to do this was “El Louie” by José Montoya. [3] For Chicano poets, this was true to a lesser extent for the Pachuca figure, who was embraced mainly as a lover to the Pachuco. [2]
Pat Mora (born January 19, 1942) [2] is an American poet and author of books for adults, teens and children. A native of El Paso, Texas , her grandparents came to the city from northern Mexico. She graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso, received Honorary Doctorates from North Carolina State University and SUNY Buffalo , and was ...
Hamilton is widely used to teach poetry in classrooms. [16] Another dramatic Latino poet is Giannina Braschi, who writes epic poetry that embeds dramatic, lyrical, and prose poems into lyric essays, political manifestos, and short stories. [17] [18] Braschi's cross-genre poetry works include Empire of Dreams (1994), the Spanglish classic Yo-Yo ...
Novels, short stories, poetry, young adult literature: Subject: Hispanic and Latino American culture, LGBT: Notable works: Carry Me Like Water, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club: Notable awards: American Book Award (1992) PEN/Faulkner ...
Juan Felipe Herrera (born on December 27, 1948) is an American poet, performer, writer, toonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. [ 1 ] He is a major figure in the literary field of Chicano poetry .
At age 17, he won the title for the 2005 South Bay Teen Grand SLAM Champion, repeating his win in 2006. [21] In 2007, he was featured in a Youth Speaks documentary titled 2nd Verse: the Rebirth of Poetry. [25] In 2009, he self-published his first chapbook, For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly, which garnered national and international acclaim. [2]
In its entirety, the poem describes the then modern dilemma of Chicanos in the 1960s trying to assimilate with American culture while trying to keep some semblance of their culture intact for future generations, then proceeds to outline 2000 years of Mexican and Mexican-American history, highlighting the different, often opposing strains that ...