The first time the Tucson Weekly talked with Chicano poet and teacher Francisco Alarcón he was on fire—a poet-warrior inspired by what took place on April 20, 2010, when nine Latino students chained ...
From left, Ulises Pico, 12, Roxanne Pico, 13 and Aldo Roman, 6 enjoy Franciso X. Alarcon's poems in Spanish and English. At the public schools where Francisco X. Alarcon frequently visits as a guest ...