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Francisco X. Alarcón
American poet
For other people named Francisco Alarcón, see Francisco Alarcón (disambiguation).
Francisco Xavier Alarcón (21 February 1954 – 15 January 2016) was a Chicano poet and educator.
He was one of the few Chicano poets to have "gained recognition while writing mostly in Spanish" within the United States.[1] His poems have been also translated into Irish and Swedish.[2] He made many guest appearances at public schools so that he could help inspire and influence young people to write their own poetry[2] especially because he felt that children are "natural poets."[3]
Life
Alarcón was born in Wilmington, California[4] and had four brothers and two sisters.[2] He moved to Guadalajara, Mexico with his family when he was 6 and then moved back to California when he was eighteen.[2] Alarcón felt that he became a writer when he was fifteen and helped transcribe his grandmother's own