LATINOPIA WORD ALARCÓN ON POETRY from Latinopia.com on Vimeo.
Francisco X. Alarcón is a poet, educator and social activist who resides in the San Francisco Bay area. His collection of poems, “Snake Poems” won the 1993 American Book Award. In 2010, in response to anti-immigrant legislation passed in Arizona, SB 1070, Francisco created a unique Facebook page, “Poets Responding to SB 1070.” Within a short time the Facebook page had more than 1200 poems! Latinopia asked Francisco about his the difference between prose and poetry and why poetry can be so powerful.