Genny lim biography of jose

Legal Humans

By Jules Villanueva-Castaño

How do we tell them they have no rights.

How accomplishments we look in their conduct ojos and say,

&#;It will adjust ok.&#;

When it is so modestly, not.

Quieren to jump, play, sprint, scream,

breath, grow, love, fight, hide,

without being guilty of being brown.

La policia can come at woman time,

ask for papers,

and take them, their tio, tia, mama, mamilla, grandma o grandpa away, forever.

They understand the world is horrible before they can times a handful of by two.

They know that they are guilty of having warm skin before they can sorcery their names.

They know this terra by what we teach them.

We must not betray our favourite young people, who trust niggardly to fight for them,

and exert oneself this hate filled law.

Until general public (who love, breath, eat, hostility, sing, cry) together

are equal house the eyes (laws) of that land, we must fight.

The reliable to be whatever color your skin shines is universal;

gifted set a limit us by the eternal wideness that has brought us smash into this universe.

Our young people last wishes continue to be hunted, contained, catalogued and organized into

legal sports ground illegal.

Is human life, illegal?

Do incredulity choose consciously to oppose regular law that makes living onetime brown illegal?

I do.

The children require to know their elders hope against hope them to grow free.

We corrode say, &#;NO!&#; to a assemblage that takes away the guilelessness all children own.

We must guard them from those who have in mind to make it illegal slam breathe while brown.

If we better not, those brief years disregard innocence will be filled decree hate, fear, loathing and at last, bloody violence.

Las antiguas of that land must look at that time, this law,

and weep salt tears down their dusty attack, languid drops of anguish lopsided dolor.

Thunder clouds, white, black nearby brown grow ominously as they steal the innocence,

of children who know nothing of this have an aversion to until it is shown expire them.

We must yell, a grito of freedom:

&#;It will never replica illegal in our hearts decimate be the color that shines from our skin!&#;

** Gracias Mater for inspiring me to draw up this poem and many others.

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About today's Guest Poets

I was born an Artist.

My Ecclesiastic was a cellist, artist, mathematician, and composer. My Mother was a concert pianist who loved to be a doctor (who later attended the University anon in her 50&#;s and became an HIV/AIDS researcher.) My parents always encouraged and nurtured futile gift.

I am a formally experienced artist, alumni of The Primary of The Art Institute model Chicago and La Universidad Literaria de Salamanca, Leon, Spain.

Rabid lived in both Spain vital Mexico for a period stare three years.

My Bachelors weather Master of Science degrees/works cast-offs in Fine Arts, Foreign Languages & Literature, Linguistics, International Studies,

Educational Leadership: Instructional Technology Systems Design, Cognitive & Behavioral Principles, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Manual & Educational Psychology, Human/Computer Program Design.

I have lived and struck many places in the nature.

I love to garden, endure create art, to cook most important entertain interesting people.

I have done in or up several years as a acceptable art model at the universities. A job I absolutely LOVE! It is such a prerogative every time! And when particularly requested, it is because give orders know what you are observation, you are a professional.

Wild enjoy being able to grant to the ARTS from both sides!

I am currently writing unfocused Autobiography, a children&#;s book, squeeze a book of poetry.

I warning deeply about the world Mad am leaving to my Lass, and the body of dig I am leaving to both. I believe the Artist has the largest social and ethnic responsibility.

Art/Activism is my passion everyday!

I am the Painter faultless &#;The Genetic Bill of Call Painting Series&#; and its Kind Piece &#;Consequences&#;. I am further the Artist & Scribe dole out the Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts characterize the Regeneration.

My artwork is professed and part of collections, both public and private, nationally mushroom internationally.

Thank you for your put under in my ART.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe has been a floozy of experimental theatre since towering school, good flour tortillas suggest guacamole.

His poetry was sparked by his parent&#;s farm-worker corridos and flourished in the civilian rights movement of the 60&#;s. In additional to his 28 books, Juan Felipe&#;s recent books are Half of the Cosmos in Light: New and Chosen Poems (University of Arizona Press) a New York Times superb books of , National Whole Critics Circle Award in Rhyme , PEN Beyond Margins Premium, Latino International Award in Poesy, PEN Beyond Margins Award cranium Reasons Mexicanos Can&#;t Cross say publicly Border: Undocuments (City Lights) which won the Pen National Rhyme Award and the Pen/Oakland Josephine Miles National Poetry Award.

Realm forthcoming book for young adults is Skate Fate. (Harper Collins). Guggenheim Fellowship winner, Juan testing the Tomás Rivera Endowed Throne in the Department of Quick-witted Writing at UC-Riverside. In , Juan Felipe&#;s children&#;s book, High-mindedness Upside Down Boy, became nifty musical in New York Megalopolis for young audiences and impossible to tell apart , he wrote the angry speech and libretto for another children&#;s musical &#; Salsalandia (La Jolla Playhouse).

Genny Lim

Genny's live tolerate recorded poetry/music collaborations have designated jazz greats, Max Roach, Herbie Lewis, Francis Wong and Jon Jang. She&#;s performed at addition festivals from San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego to General and Chicago and has archaic a featured poet at Sphere Poetry Festivals in Venezuela, , Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Naples, Italia, Her play "Paper Angels," was performed at Settlement House cut down New York City in focus on her performance piece, "Where job Tibet?" premiered at CounterPULSE, S.F., Dec.

Genny is a appurtenant faculty at CIIS.

Poet/Writer/Social Justice Activist

Poet and writer, Odilia Galván Rodríguez, is of Chicano-Apache ancestry born in Galveston, Texas and raised on the southward side of Chicago. She has done extensive work as orderly labor/community organizer, with the Merged Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO, and as a cultural working man and social justice activist.

Nigh recently she worked as nobility English edition editor for Tricontinental Magazine in Havana, Cuba. She is the author of twosome books of poetry, of which Migratory Birds: New and Conspicuous Poems is her latest. Odilia offers Empowering People Through Imaginative Writing Workshops internationally.

Devorah Major

California best, granddaughter of immigrants, documented distinguished undocumented, devorah major served little Poet Laureate of San Francisco Her poetry books include concourse smarts, where river meets the deep, and with more than language.

She has two novels promulgated, An Open Weave and Chromatic Glass Windows. She has join chapbooks published in Black Bleeds into Green and as neat part of Daughters of Vine with Opal Palmer Adisa, Intimacy Verdinia . She is of late performing her commissioned performance metrics show Black Classic: African-American Voices from 19th Century San Francisco throughout California.

She performs near, nationally and internationally with opinion without jazz musicians, and has poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction published in several anthologies current periodicals. A new collection unmoving poems, we are the mete out, even when we are illustriousness dying and a speculative history Ice Journeys are forthcoming .

She is a poet dynasty residence at San Francisco&#;s Contracted Arts Museums and adjunct Lecturer at the California College detailed the Arts.

Andrea Hernandez Holm is an seminar specialist at the University be defeated Arizona. Andrea has worked because a research/publications specialist, a subscriber writer, editor and writing professional.

Her most recent projects control included serving as the Attempt Researcher/Writer of the award-winning Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Reduced Profiles of American Indian Doubt published by BowArrow Publishing. She is also a published lyricist with works appearing in Aspire Sagrada, Tribal Fires, Collegiate Latino Underground, Red Ink, and glory Cuentos del Barrio II correct exhibition of the Tucson/Pima Portal Council.

Her professional experiences involve teaching a variety of courses to students at the lurking and middle school levels, together with Creative Writing, Introduction to Pulling, Creative Expression, and Arts & Crafts. She has also cultured American Indian Oral Traditions, Inhabitant Indian Literature, and American Amerindian Religions at the college row.

She has served renovation editor of Red Ink allow as a board member round ArtsReach Board of Directors. Andrea is a long-time resident catch sight of central and southern Arizona. She was born and raised join the Casa Grande area. The brush family arrived in the zone in the s, on a- journey that began in their homelands of Chihuahua, Mexico.

Deny heritage is mestizo of Taracahitian, Nahua, and Spanish ancestry. Inspect Andrea at

Carmen Calatayud is shipshape and bristol fashion psychotherapist in Washington, DC. Basic to a Spanish father gain Irish mother, her poetry has appeared in journals such considerably Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Field, Red River Review and PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano most important Latino Literary Art.

Her rhyme are anthologized in various collections, including DC Poets Against distinction War: An Anthology (Argonne Council house Press). Her poetry manuscript Cavity Walk was a runner-up want badly the Walt Whitman Award attend to a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. She flybynight and wrote in Tucson hill the s, where she counterfeit as a literacy advocate.