Moe's Books reading Monday September 9

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Iván Argüelles 

& Rafael Jesús González

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Monday, Sep 09, 2019 7:00 PM

Location:
In the basement of the store 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley

 

Iván Argüelles, an innovative Mexican-American poet, is the author of many books of poetry, dating as far back as 1978. Among these are: “That” Goddess; Madonna Septet; Comedy , Divine , The; Orphic Cantos; and, Fragments from a Gone World. His most recent publications are HOIL, and Twilight Cantos. He has received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America (1989), and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (2012). A retired librarian, he has resided in Berkeley since 1978.

Rafael Jesús González, Prof. Emeritus of literature and creative writing, was born and raised biculturally/bilingually in El Paso, Texas/Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, and taught at various universities before joining Laney College, Oakland, California where he founded the Dept. of Mexican & Latin-American Studies, Also visual artist, he has exhibited in the Oakland Museum of California, the Mexican Museum of San Francisco, others in the U.S. and Mexico. His collection of poems La musa lunática/The Lunatic Muse was published in 2009 with a second printing in 2010. Nominated thrice for a Pushcart price, he was honored by the National Council of Teachers of English and Annenberg CPB for his writing in 2003. He received the 2012 Dragonfly Press Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement and was honored by the City of Berkeley with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival 2015. He was named the first Poet Laureate of Berkeley in 2017.