Talk:Francisco X. Alarcón

Incorrect photo
The current photo is not of Francisco X. Alarcón. This has been confirmed to me by Francisco X. Alarcón. He apparently has tried to get it taken down and exchanged but has had no luck. (Perhaps he is not familiar with editing Wikipedia.) I am going to upload a correct photo with the artist's permission.--Lawrlafo (talk) 23:14, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * This link should help you getting the correct photo and permissions in place. Gamaliel (talk) 23:17, 25 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Gamaliel! I have uploaded a correct photo.--Lawrlafo (talk) 23:28, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

I am Francisco X. Alarcón and have added information below to this page regarding life, awards, and books. I understand that this may be a conflict of interest and has been deleted from the page. This is basically information that is really neutral. I have never edited anything on Wikipedia. Can someone help and go over this info? Thank you, Francisco

He is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry, including, From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press 2002), Sonetos a la locura y otras penas / Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes (Creative Arts Book Company 2001), No Golden Gate for Us (Pennywhistle Press 1993), Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (Chronicle Books 1992), De amor oscuro / Of Dark Love (Moving Parts Press 1991, and 2001), Body in Flames / Cuerpo en llamas (Chronicle Books l990). His most recent book of poems is Ce Uno One: Poemas para el Nuevo Sol / Poems for the New Sun (Swan Scythe Press 2010). His book of bilingual poetry for children, Animal Poems of the Iguazú/Animalario del Iguazú (Children’s Book Press 2008), was selected as a Notable Book for a Global Society by the International Reading Association, and as an Américas Awards Commended Title by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. His bilingual book titled Poems to Dream Together/Poemas para soñar juntos (Lee & Low Books 2005) was awarded the 2006 Jane Addams Honor Book Award. His bilingual book for children, Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems/Jitomates risueños y otros poemas de primavera (Children’s Book Press 1997) was awarded the 1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association and the National Parenting Publications Gold Medal. He also received the 2000 Pura Belpré Honor Award for his second book of bilingual poems for children, From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems/Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano (Children’s Book Press 1998), and the 2002 Pura Belpré Honor Award for his fourth book of bilingual poems for children, "Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems/Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de invierno" (Children’s Book Press 2001). He has published another book for children, "Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems/Los ángeles andan en bicicleta y otros poemas de otoño" (Children’s Book Press 1999). University of California Davis Professor of Music Pablo Ortiz composed thirteen songs based on Alarcón’s bilingual children’s poems and that were recorded in Mexico and released as "Canciones del Ombligo de la Luna/Songs From the Belytbutton of the Moon" under the auspices of grants from MEXUS and the Rockefeller Foundation in 2003. He was member of the Board of Directors of the Mission Cultural Center of San Francisco from 1986-1990, and served as its Board President from 1986-1989. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Children Book Press from 1997 to 2003. This is a nonprofit press that has published multicultural books for children for more than 25 years in San Francisco, California. He is co-founder of Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun), a collective of poets and writers based in Sacramento, California. Francisco has been a recipient of a Dorothy Danforth Compton Dissertation Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to do research in Mexico in 1982-1983, and has been awarded several literary prizes, including the 1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 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) in San Francisco. He was one of the three finalists nominated for the state Poet Laureate of California in 2005 and has been selected again as a finalist for Poet Laureate on June 2008. He has published several textbooks for teaching Spanish at the college and high school level: Mundo 21 (Houghton Mifflin 2002), Pasaporte al Mundo 21, Tu Mundo, and Nuestro Mundo (McDougal Littel 2000). He co-edited a volume of essays on teaching Spanish to heritage speakers, La enseñanza de español a hispanohablantes: praxis y teoría (Houghton Mifflin 1997). In response to a group of students chaining themselves to the Arizona State Capitol on April 20, 2010 to protest the anti-immigrant legislation Arizona SB 1070, Alarcón penned the poem "For the Capitol Nine" and posted it to his Facebook page. Prompted by the response to this poem, he created a Facebook group called "Poets Responding to SB 1070", which grew to include over 1200 poems and received over 600,000 hits. A anthology of poems from the group is being prepared for publication.[4] Alarcon judged the 2012 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.[5] Awards

1984 Chicano Literary Prize 1993 American Book Award 1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award 1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association 1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. 2002 Pura Belpré Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships 2002 Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) 2003 FOCAL (Friends of Children and Literature) Literary Award, Los Angeles Public Library 2005 ASUCD (Associated Students, University of California, Davis) Excellence in Teaching Award for the College of Letters and Science-Arts and Humanities by 2006 The Jane Addams Children’s Honor Book Award, New York City 2006 The Best of the Best Books of 2005 chosen by the Chicago Public Library 2006 Notable Children’s Book chosen by the American Library Association 2008 Américas Awards Commended Title by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs 2008 Notable Book for a Global Society by the International Reading Association, Works

Tattoos (Oakland: Nomad Press 1985) Ya Vas, Carnal (San Francisco 1985) Loma Prieta (Santa Cruz: We Press 1990) Body in Flames/Cuerpo en llamas (San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1990) De amor oscuro/Of Dark Love (Santa Cruz: Moving Parts Press 1991) Cuerpo en llamas/Kropp i lågor (Lysekil, Sweden: Fabians Förlag 1991) Cuerpo en llamas / Colainn ar bharr lasrach (Indreabhán, Ireland:Cló Iar-Connachta Teo 1992) Poemas zurdos (Mexico City: Editorial Factor 1992) Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation. Chronicle Books. February 1, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8118-0161-4. De amor oscuro/Vin an ngrá dorcha (Indreabhán, Ireland: Cló Iar-Connachta Teo 1992) No Golden Gate for Us (Tesuque, New Mexico: Pennywhistle Press 1993) Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes / Sonetos a la locura y otras penas (Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company 2001) From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press 2002) Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems/ Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de invierno. Illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez. Perfection Learning Corporation. 2005. ISBN 978-0-7569-7093-2. Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems/Jitomates risueños y otros poemas de primavera. Illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez. Bt Bound. 2005. ISBN 978-1-4176-6968-4. From the Bellybutton of the Moon And Other Summer Poems/Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano. Illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez. Bt Bound. 2005. ISBN 978-1-4176-6969-1. Angels Ride Bikes And Other Fall Poems/Los ángeles andan en bicicleta y otros poemas de otoño. Illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez. San Val, Incorporated. 2005. ISBN 978-1-4176-6970-7. Poems to Dream Together/Poemas para soñar juntos. Illustrator Paula Barragán. Lee & Low Books. 2005. ISBN 978-1-58430-233-9. Animal Poems of the Iguazú/Animalario del Iguazú. Illustrator Paula Barragán. Lee & Low Books. 2005. ISBN 978-1-58430-233-9. Ce Uno One: Poems for the New Sun / Poemas para el Nuevo Sol (Sacramento: Scythe Press 2010) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Francisco X. Alarcon (talk • contribs) 05:44, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

LGBT
I just added a reference stating his sexual identity as gay. I really dont like people being categorized as LGBT with no sourced statement in the article to support this. if its not in the article, it should not be in the categories, particularly for living people. i dont care how obvious it is, or to what degree the person publicly speaks or writes on the fact, or how hard it is to fit into the flow of the article. And, of course, it is not YET a completely neutral fact for a person.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 23:05, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

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