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Lorna Dee Cervantes (born August 6, 1954 in San Francisco, California) is an award-winning Chicana, Native American (Chumash), feminist, activist poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years. She has been described by Alurista, as "probably the best Chicana poet active today."〔(ENotes.com bio ) (accessed March 2008)〕 Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954 in California. She grew up in San Jose, speaking English exclusively. This was strictly enforced by her parents, who allowed only English to be spoken at home by her and her brother. This was to avoid the racism that was occurring in her community at that time. Lorna Dee Cervantes was an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder until 2007. She considers herself "a Chicana writer, a feminist writer, a political writer" (Cervantes). Her collections of poetry, ''Emplumada'', ''From the Cables of Genocide'', ''Drive: The First Quartet'' and ''Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems'' are held in high esteem and have attracted numerous nominations and awards. She is currently the Regents Lecturer at UC Berkeley, California for the 2011/12 year. In an interview conducted by Sonia V. Gonzalez, the poet states that through writing and publishing, “I was trying to give back that gift that had saved me when I discovered, again, African-American women’s poetry. I was having this vision of some little Chicana in San Antonio () going, scanning the shelves, like I used to do, scanning the shelves for women’s names, or Spanish surnames, hoping she’ll pull it out, relate to it. So it was intentionally accessible poetry, intended to bridge that gap, that literacy gap.”〔“Poetry Saved My Life: An Interview With Lorna Dee Cervantes.” By Sonia V. González. MELUS 32.1 (2007): 163-180. JSTOR. Web. 25 Jan. 2010.〕 Cervantes was actively involved in the publication of numerous Chicana/o writers from the 1970s onwards when she produced her own Chicana/o literary journal,MANGO "which was the first to publish Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alberto Rios, Ray Gonzalez, Ronnie Burk, and Orlando Ramírez (). Cervantes and MANGO also championed the early work of writers Gary Soto, José Montoya, José Montalvo, José Antonio Burciaga, and her personal favourite, Luís Omar Salinas"〔“Lorna Dee Cervantes.” Wings Press. Wings Press, 2009. Web. 1 Jun. 2010.〕 Cervantes regularly gives poetry readings, workshops and guest lectures across the US. She was part of the Librotraficate Movement. The 2012 Librotraficante Caravan to Tucson was intended to smuggle books back into the hands of students, after they were boxed up and carted out of class rooms during class time, in order to comply with Arizona House Bill 2281.〔Librotraficante Manifesto. Source: http://librotraficante.com/index.php/present/manifesto Access Date: 06 June 2012〕 Cervantes delivered a moving (speech ) to the Movement's supporters outside of the Alamo in March 2012. The poet was one of seven featured writers to give a (reading ) at the American Literature Association Conference held in San Francisco in May 2012. ''Ciento: 100 100 Word Love Poems'' was nominated for a Northern California Book Award in 2012 under the poetry category.〔Nominees Announced For Northern California Book Awards 2012. (05/09/2012) http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_20587595/nominees-announced-northern-california-book-awards〕 == Education == * Abraham Lincoln High School (San Jose): School year, 1972 * San Jose Community College: Associate Arts (high honours), School year, 1976 * San Jose State University: BA Creative Arts (high honours), School year, 1984 * UC Santa Cruz: PhD History of Consciousness (all but dissertation), 1984-88〔Lorna Dee Cervantes' Linkedin Profile, 2011 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lorna-dee-cervantes/3a/818/800〕 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「Lorna Dee Cervantes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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