tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post8564863294136710845..comments2024-03-26T09:40:00.710-06:00Comments on La Bloga: Review: Hanigan's Tumba. Birthday Floricanto.Contributing Bloguistas:http://www.blogger.com/profile/13054190814722049711noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-44302957363254106132014-02-21T12:07:16.513-07:002014-02-21T12:07:16.513-07:00i'm digging the controversy over la foto. lydi...i'm digging the controversy over la foto. lydia, find your foto and let's compare them. monica sent me this one. and there's a companion foto of las mujeres with las rosas, but i never got that one. 2011 NLWC.msedanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09527530005391318421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-78387044367733683572014-02-21T10:19:52.814-07:002014-02-21T10:19:52.814-07:00I thought I took that photo ;-) In any case, we w...I thought I took that photo ;-) In any case, we were there as witnesses to a delightful night of friendship, music and literature! <br />Hugs to y'all!<br />LydiaLydia Gilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16666054800065686037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-23149337606961689792014-02-18T20:12:04.267-07:002014-02-18T20:12:04.267-07:00Happy Birthday Francisco! And I do believe I took ...Happy Birthday Francisco! And I do believe I took the photo of these gorgeous men in Albuquerque at the National Latino Writer's Conference a few years ago!<br />Abrazos,<br />MonicaMonica Brownhttp://www.monicabrown.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-64333195972094021592014-02-18T08:22:57.650-07:002014-02-18T08:22:57.650-07:00Dear Em, Thank you for posting the wonderful photo...Dear Em, Thank you for posting the wonderful photo and the poem. We had a great time at my mom's 90th birthday celebration in Long Beach. I felt so blessed that I wrote a poem to commemorate the day:<br /><br />BLESSED DAY<br /><br />by Francisco X. Alarcón<br /><br />what a luminous<br />special and blessed day<br />in Los Angeles <br /><br />first joining a train <br />ride with fellow poets<br />activists, dreamers<br /><br />with children, youth<br />adults and elders reading<br />poems, sharing dreams<br /><br />putting into action<br />poetics and politics<br />at their best <br /><br />boarding a poetry <br />locomotive whose real<br />final destination <br /><br />is to change our state<br />our nation, the world<br />for the better<br /><br />yes, the New Era is<br />upon us, the Flower Sun<br />is blooming in our hearts<br /><br />“monarch butterflies<br />would vote for El Poeta<br />as the people’s governor” <br /><br />what a luminous<br />special and blessed day<br />in Los Angeles <br /><br />listening to poets,<br />inspired by them and<br />by the poet candidate<br /><br />at Quetzal Boutique<br />in East Los Angeles —<br />moved by Quetzalcoatl<br /><br />invoking the ancient<br />call “Tahui” to the four<br />winds, the four directions<br /><br />calling the ancestors <br />and all present to bless<br />our brother poet candidate<br /><br />what a luminous<br />special and blessed day<br />in Los Angeles <br /><br />being part of another<br />special occasion, my mom’s <br />90th birthday celebration<br /><br />now in Long Beach<br />in company of brothers,<br />sisters, relatives, friends<br /><br />and being able to recite <br />a poem dedicated to her<br />as a big ceiba mother tree<br /><br />and also being able to call<br />the four directions <br />the four winds<br /><br />feeing blessed by all present<br />blessed by the ancestors<br />blessed by mi madre<br /><br />o what a luminous<br />special and blessed day<br />in Los Angeles!<br /><br />© Francisco X. Alarcón<br />February 16, 2014<br /><br />This was written after participating in the LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ POETRY LOCOMOTIVE organized by poets Abel Salas and Iris de Anda in Los Angeles on February 16. Other poets who participated: Gloria Enedina Álvarez, Leon Arellano, Jessica Ceballos, Bus Stop Prophet Francisco Escamilla, Janet González, Peter J. Harris, John Martinez. Luivette Resto, David Romero, Matt Sedillo, Mario Angel Escobar’s daughters, award-winning high school poetry students and the poet candidate for Governor of California Luis J. Rodríguez,<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10047328414106957942noreply@blogger.com