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, May 29, 2018

full moon: Lunar Insomnia

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Insomnia lunar La luna llena de luz me ha espantando el sueño que sacó la cabeza de bajo del ala, y tomó inmediato y silenci...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Memorial Day

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Celebrating Memorial Day let us reflect on the fact that the United States is and has been in a constant state of war since its beginning....
Monday, May 21, 2018

Gemini

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-   ------------ Géminis Los gemelos, él con collar de esmeraldas, ella con collar de perlas, arrullan en sus brazos ------ al aire in...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Mothers' Day

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- Mothers' Day is celebrated in the United States the second Sunday of May, and throughout the world on various dates. But in the...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Poetry & Place, El Cerrito Sunday, May 20

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- "Poetry & Place | El Cerrito” is a poetry reading series that will happen in the spring, summer & fall, in different p...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

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 nas...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

full moon: Look, the Moon Again

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- Mira, la luna de nuevo ha dejado sus velos de sombra para estar en luz plena. Que mucho, mucho, mucho lo veas siempre con asombro...
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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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