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salmonrojo said "yes" to attending the event: SOY presents: Reading with Young Writers
date: December 10, 2011 04:00PM
location: Resistencia Bookstore, 1801-A S. First St., Austin, TX, The United States
description: Join us to celebrate the voices of emerging East Austin writers!

Save Our Youth presents a reading with young writers

From Eastside Memorial High School under the direction of English teacher Susan Diaz and Lanier High School under the direction of English teacher Ashley Card.

Their autobiographical essays/memoirs of predominantly Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Black 10th graders are about significant moments in their lives that impacted who they are today. Many of the writings are very moving, r...more

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Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda Where a Nickel Costs a Dime by Willie Perdomo
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Jorge Antonio Renaud
“Prison Moon

Four a.m. work duty and I begin
my solitary trudge from outer compound
to main building. A shivering guard,
chilled in his lonely outpost, strip searches
me until content that my inconsequential nudity.
poses no threat and then whispers
the secret code that allows me admittance
into the open quarter-mile walkway.

I chuff my way into another day
as ice glints on the razor wire
and the rifles note my numbed passage,
silent but for my huffs and scuffle
on the cracked, slippery sidewalk
A new moon, veiled in wispy fog
and beringed in glory, hangs over the prison,
its gaudy glow taunting the halogen spotlights.

The moon’s creamy pull upsets
some liquid equilibrium within me
and like tides, wolves and all manner
of madmen, I surrender disturbed by the certainty that under
the bony luminescence of a grinning moon
The lunar deliriums grip me
and I howl--once, then again, and
surely somewhere an unbound sleeper stirs,
penitence is dying a giddy death.

I shake myself sane
and as the echoes hang
in the frigid air I explain
to the wild-eyed guard that convicts,
like all animals under the leash,
must bay at the beauty beyond them.”
Jorge Antonio Renaud

Abelardo Delgado
“stupid america

stupid america, see that
chicano
with a big knife
on his steady hand
he doesn’t want to knife you
he wants to sit on a bench
and carve christfigures
but you won’t let him.
stupid america, hear that
chicano
shouting curses on the street
he is a poet
without paper and pencil
and since he cannot write
he will explode.
stupid america, remember
that chicano
flunking math and english
he is the picasso
of your western states
but he will die
with one thousand
masterpieces
hanging only from his mind.”
Abelardo Delgado, Chicano: 25 Pieces of a Chicano Mind

“But there are no criminals here
Just people surviving against all odds
Multi and never ending circumstances
of racial repression
Class war accompanied
with post-traumatic stress
syndrome-like symptoms
Marshal law-like conditions
Magic trick tactics
transforming Brown and Black pearls into perils
with K-9’s searching the perimeter
Face filled with hate
abra cadabra cop smiles
with a gun and a badge
The bullet is faster than the eye
Judges able to devour justice
with a single courtroom motion
not missing a crumb
Now you have your freedom
then you don’t”
Jonathan Daniel Gomez, There Are No Criminals Here: Writings of East Los Angeles, Views from City Terrace Hills

Teresa Palomo Acosta
“Chicana intifada


Rocks are our weapons of choice,
indeed the only ones that we have stockpiled.
We never worry about running out of them.
After all, our unpaved streets are filled with rocks.
We have wiped the dirt off them so that they may sail
with a smooth hardness when we fling them into the air.
We shall name each one of our rocks for the family members
we have lost each year of the hundreds of years we’ve lived in
these parts—as indios, as mestizos, as “Hi-panics.”
For starters, we plan to break a few windows
of the jefe’s casota nueva.
I myself will be delighted to land one in each pane:
center, left, right, top, bottom—the exact location
doesn’t much matter.
Why should his fancy house remain intact
while we cannot count on running water?

No one will suspect
that an abuela is la capitana of the Chicana intifada,
with her disguise of hat and gloves,
of shiny earrings and sheer “nude” pantyhose;
with her polite yes, ma’aming.

“We’ll launch the first volleys at 6 p.m.,”
she whispers to us. Smiling wryly, she adds,
“Inside the house at a reception to which
I’ve been properly invited you’ll see me
lower my right gloved hand to the marble table.”


Copyright (C) Teresa Palomo Acosta, 2007. All rights reserved.”
Teresa Palomo Acosta

Raúl R. Salinas
“¡Poesía está en la calle!”
Raúl R. Salinas


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