Reading: Wednesday, October 7

 
A reading of special historical meaning: Nina Serrano and Rafael Jesús González met and read for the first time in 1971 to inaugurate the publication of Mark In Time, an anthology of San Francisco Bay area poets published by Glide Publications that year. Forty-nine years later, this, too, will be a mark in time.

  
Nina Serrano, Mark In Time, San Francisco     
  1971, Glide publications  

 

Rafael Jesús González, Mark In Time, 

San Francisco 1971, Glide publications   

 

Greetings!

Please join us at our 7pm Wednesday Oct. 7 reading, as we celebrate Latinx/La Raza Heritage Month, featuring Berkeley Poet Laureate Rafael Jesús González and KPFA talk show host, Nina Serrano.  Hosts are Nanette Deetz and Cathy Dana.  Following features is our "famously friendly" open mic.  Please RSVP to sign up.

peace, passion, poetry, and virtual hugs,

Cathy Dana 

President, Alameda Island Poets

Bios and photos below.  Zoom link at the bottom. 

 

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 University of Oregon, Western State College of Colorado, Central Washington State University, University of Texas El Paso (Visiting Professor of Philosophy), and 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, and others in the U.S. and Mexico. Nominated thrice for a Pushcart prize, he was honored by the National Council of Teachers of English and Annenberg CPB for his writing in 2003. In 2013 he received a César E. Chávez Lifetime Award 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. Visit <http://rjgonzalez.blogspot.com/> 

 

About Nina Serrano: Nina Serrano is a well-known, international prize-winning

inspirational author and poet. With a focus on Latino history and culture, she is also a playwright, filmmaker, KPFA talk show host, a former Alameda County Arts Commissioner, and a co-founder of the San Francisco Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Oakland Magazine’s “best local poet” in 2010, she is a former director of the San Francisco Poetry in the Schools program and the Bay Area’s Storytellers in the Schools program. A Latina activist for social justice, women’s rights, and the arts, Nina Serrano at 85 remains vitally engaged in inspiring change and exploring her abundant creativity. 

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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
We should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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