Rafael Jesús González

Born in the bicultural/bilingual setting of El Paso, Texas/Juárez, Chihuahua, attended the University of Texas El Paso, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, & the University of Oregon. Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & Literature, taught at the University of Oregon, Western State College of Colorado, Central Washington State University, the University of Texas El Paso, and Laney College, Oakland where he founded the Mexican and Latin American Studies Dept.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

City of Oakland bans export of coal from its port

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- - photography by Brooke Anderson Rafael Jesús González   speaking before the Oakland City Council in support of banning...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Summer Solstice, Cancer, & full moon

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- Summer Solstice & Cancer & full moon Full Moon Over Mt. Shasta  The full bright moon bathes  the holy mountain in light, ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

To share a moment to rember: Sen. Bernie Sanders in Oakland

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  - To share a moment with you, yesterday, Memorial Day, I went to an event at the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland where Bernie San...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Memorial Day

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. --- photograph © April Sims In Celebrating Memorial Day let us reflect on the fact that the United States is and has been ...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Full moon — Gemini

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- Pensando en el mito maya en noche de luna llena  Por la vida los gemelos juegan  contra los señores del inframundo  su pelot...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Pentecost

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- ------ Rezo a espíritu  Que espíritu brote  lenguas de llama  que alumbren el entender, enciendan el corazón a amar  y nos den p...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

May Day — International Day of the Worker

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- International Day of the Worker without whom nothing that we have would be. “Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the nast...
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Rafael Jesús González
Rafael Jesús González, born in the bicultural/bilingual setting of El Paso, Texas/Juárez, Chihuahua, attended the University of Texas El Paso, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, & the University of Oregon. Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & Literature, he has taught at the University of Oregon, Western State College of Colorado, Central Washington State University, the University of Texas at El Paso, and Laney College, Oakland (where he founded the Mexican and Latin American Studies Dept.) He has four times been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He was Poet in Residence at the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Public Library under the Poets & Writers “Writers on Site” award in 1996. He served as contributing editor for The Montserrat Review and received the Annual Dragonfly Press Award for Literary Achievement in 2002 & 2012. In 2003 he was honored by the National Council of Teachers of English & Annenberg/CPB for his writing. In 2013 he received the César E. Chávez Lifetime Award. The City of Berkeley honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 and was named the City of Berkeley's first Poet Laureate in 2017.
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