Alejandro Murguía is soft spoken; his choice of words is deliberate as he teaches his introduction to Latina/o studies class at San Francisco State University.

Recently, muralist and former Mission resident Juana Alicia inaugurated a new set of murals on the walls of El Centro Chicano at Stanford University. California …

Talleres de Poesía—a group of bilingual poets, writers and cultural workers from San Francisco, Los Angeles and El Salvador—will host the Mission’s first bilingual, children’s poetry festival, “Flor y Canto para nuestros niños y niñas,” on Sept. 15.

California’s new Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, hopes to serve as an inspiration and literary link to all those living in California.

He was appointed …