Alejandro Murguía

Alejandro Murguía (born 1949) is an American poet, short story writer, and editor.^[1] He is known for his writings about the San Francisco's Mission District.^[2]

He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University.^[3] In 2012, he was named San Francisco Poet Laureate.^[4]

Awards

• 1991, 2003 American Book Award ^[5]
• 2012 San Francisco Poet Laureate

Works

• This War Called Love. City Lights Publishers. May 2002. ISBN 978-0-87286-394-1.
• The medicine of memory: a Mexica clan in California. University of Texas Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-292-75267-2.
• Alejandro Murguía, Barbara Paschke, eds. (1983). Volcán: poems from Central America : a bilingual anthology. Photographer Barbara Paschke. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-153-4.
• Southern Front. Bilingual Review Press. March 1990. ISBN 978-0-916950-97-2.
• Jose Montoya, Alejandro Murguia (1972). El Sol y los de Abajo and other R.C.A.F. poems / Oracion a la Mano Poderosa. Photographer Adal. Ediciones Pocho-Che.
• Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6. City Lights Publishers. May 2014. ISBN 978-0-87286-616-4.

Anthologies

• Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez, David William Foster, eds. (1997). "A Long Walk". Literatura chicana, 1965-1995: an anthology in Spanish, English, and Caló. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-8153-2077-7.
• Chris Carlsson, ed. (2005). "Into the Fray". The Political Edge. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-1-931404-05-1.

References

1. http://www.redroom.com/author/alejandro-murguia/bio
2. "Alejandro Murguía sees poetry in S.F.". SFGate. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
3. http://www.sfsu.edu/~raza/faculty1.html
4. "Alejandro Murguía Named SF Poet Laureate". SFPL News Releases. 2012-07-27. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
5. "Alejandro Murguia". San Francisco International Poetry Festival. Retrieved 2014-10-09.

External links

• James Brook, Chris Carlsson, Nancy Joyce Peters, eds. (1998). Reclaiming San Francisco: history, politics, culture. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-335-4.