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:''For others similarly named, see the Francisco Alarcón navigation page'' Francisco Xavier Alarcón (born 21 February 1954) is an award-winning Chicano and American poet and educator. He is one of the few Chicano poets to have "gained recognition while writing mostly in Spanish" within the United States. His poems have been also translated into Gaelic and Swedish.〔 He makes many guest appearances at public schools so that he can help inspire and influence young people to write their own poetry〔 especially because he feels that children are "natural poets." ==Life== Alarcón was born in Wilmington, California and has four brothers and two sisters.〔 He moved to Guadalajara, Mexico with his family when he was 6 and then moved back to California when he was eighteen.〔 Alarcón feels that he became a writer when he was fifteen and helped transcribe his grandmother's own ballad-like songs.〔 His grandmother was a native speaker of Nahuatl.〔 Growing up in both the United States and Mexico and experiencing both cultures helped shape the kind of writing he would create. As a young adult, he moved back to the Los Angeles area. He received his high school diploma from Cambria Adult School.〔 He worked in restaurants and as a migrant farm worker. During this time, he went to East Los Angeles College.〔 Alarcón graduated from California State University, Long Beach, and Stanford University. During college, he started writing poetry, belonged to many literary circles in the area and also read his poetry out loud at various venues.〔 At Standford,between 1978 and 1980, he edited the journal ''Vortice''. In 1982, while on a Fulbright Fellowship to Mexico City, Alarcón discovered Aztec incantations translated by a Mexican priest .〔 These later inspired the writing in ''Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation''.〔 He also met his "soul mate," Mexican poet, Elías Nandino, on his trip to Mexico City.〔 Alarcón was very impressed with how Nandino refused to hide his homosexuality from the world.〔 During his time in Mexico, Alarcón was involved in the theatre in Mexico City and also did a lot of research at Colegio de México.〔 The Fulbright grant also allowed him to travel to Cuba.〔 In 1984, Alarcón was considered a suspect in the murder of a young man, Teddy Gomez, who was killed in Golden Gate Park.〔 He was held in jail for some time during the investigation with his bail set at $500,000. The investigation itself was considered "discriminatory."〔 Alarcón felt that if he had been white, he never would have been considered a suspect. Others questioned the police department's actions and felt that they were also homophobic.〔 Legal defense funds were raised, with Margarita Luna Robles organizing and leading the cause.〔 The amount of people who came to Alarcón's aid, visiting him in jail, speaking up on his behalf, praying for him showed how the Chicano community can come together during times of trouble.〔 The actual murderer, William Melvin White, eventually confessed and Alarcón was cleared of all charges.〔〔 Later, Alarcón sued the City of San Francisco because of the trauma the investigation caused.〔 Alarcón was said to age visibly because of the ordeal.〔 His book, ''Tattoos'', reflects his experience as being a murder suspect.〔 Alarcón and fellow poets Juan Pablo Gutierrez and Rodrigo Reyes founded Las Cuarto Espinas, the first gay Chicano poets collective, in 1985. Together, they published a collection of poetry titled ''Ya Vas Carnal''.〔 He teaches at the University of California, Davis,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Francisco Alarcón: Spanish and Portuguese at UC Davis )〕 and is the co-author of ''Mundo 21'', a Spanish-language method published by Cengage Learning. ''Mundo 21'' is considered the best Spanish textbook on the market.〔 In response to a group of students chaining themselves to the Arizona State Capitol on April 20, 2010, to protest the anti-immigrant legislation Arizona SB 1070, Alarcón penned the poem "For the Capitol Nine" and posted it to his Facebook page. Prompted by the response to this poem, he created a Facebook group called "Poets Responding to SB 1070", which grew to include over 1200 poems and received over 600,000 hits. An anthology of poems from the group is being prepared for publication. Alarcón judged the 2012 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. He lives in Davis, California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francisco X. Alarcón」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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