"Stray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murgui;a's inaugural address, where he provides a brilliant and impassioned poetic account of San Francisco's Native and Latino literary h
From Mexico City to San Francisco's Mission District, nothing comes easy—in life or in love. Here is an unstereotypical view of a world as treacherous as it is tender, as hilarious as it is heartbreak
"People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murguia. In a state where "what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo," no one has "the time, e
A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt" describes not only Central America in the 1980s but—in the conception of its editors—this anthology of contraband poetry. The poems themse
