Alejandro Murguía

Alejandro Murguía (born 1949) is an American poet, short story writer, and editor. He is known for his writings about the San Francisco's Mission District.

He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University. In 2012, he was named San Francisco Poet Laureate.

Awards

• 1991, 2003 American Book Award
• 2012 San Francisco Poet Laureate

Works

• This War Called Love. City Lights Publishers. May 2002. ISBN 978-0-87286-394-1.
• The medicine of memory: a Mexica clan in California. University of Texas Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-292-75267-2.
• Volcán: poems from Central America : a bilingual anthology. Photographer Barbara Paschke. City Lights Books. 1983. ISBN 978-0-87286-153-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: others (link)
• Southern Front. Bilingual Review Press. March 1990. ISBN 978-0-916950-97-2.
• Jose Montoya, Alejandro Murguia (1972). El Sol y los de Abajo and other R.C.A.F. poems / Oracion a la Mano Poderosa. Photographer Adal. Ediciones Pocho-Che.
• Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6. City Lights Publishers. May 2014. ISBN 978-0-87286-616-4.

Anthologies

• "A Long Walk". Literatura chicana, 1965-1995: an anthology in Spanish, English, and Caló. Taylor & Francis. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8153-2077-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• Chris Carlsson, ed. (2005). "Into the Fray". The Political Edge. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-1-931404-05-1.

External links

• Reclaiming San Francisco: history, politics, culture. City Lights Books. 1998. ISBN 978-0-87286-335-4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)