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Lorna Dee Cervantes (born August 6, 1954) is an American poet and activist, who is considered one of the greatest figures in Chicano poetry. She has been described by Alurista as "probably the best Chicana poet active today."
One of the major voices in Chicana literature, poet Lorna Dee Cervantes’s writing evokes and explores cultural difference—between Mexican, Anglo, Native American, and African American lives—as well as the divides of gender and economics.
Há 3 dias · A fifth generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumash) heritage, Lorna Dee Cervantes was born on August 6, 1954, in San Francisco, and raised in San Jose, California.
Lorna Dee Cervantes is a critically acclaimed native California (Chumash-Chicana) poet. She is the former Director of Creative Writing and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado in Boulder where she has taught for 18 years.
Cervantes’s first book of poetry, Emplumada, garnered, and continues to garner, extensive critical and popular reception. It won the American Book Award in 1982. The volume contains the widely anthologized “Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway” and “Poem for the Young White Man . . .”
Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in San Francisco of Chicana and Native American (Chumash) heritage. For many years she taught at University of Colorado and edited the Chicana/o journal MANGO, which was the first to publish Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Alberto Ríos, all poets included in the present collection.
Lorna Dee Cervantes is the author of Emplumada, From the Cables of Genocide, Ciento, DRIVE, and April on Olympia. Awarded NEA Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, a Lila Wallace, state arts grants and best
