{"id":18529,"date":"2013-01-31T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=18529"},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:26:58","slug":"getting-to-know-alejandro-murguia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/getting-to-know-alejandro-murguia\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know Alejandro Murgu\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18531\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/2013\/01\/getting-to-know-alejandro-murguia\/alejandro-munguia-poet-laureate-inaugural-address\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18531\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18531 \" title=\"Alejandro Munguia Poet Laureate Inaugural Address\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alejandro-Murguia_01web.jpg?resize=720%2C480&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alejandro-Murguia_01web.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alejandro-Murguia_01web.jpg?resize=600%2C399&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alejandro-Murguia_01web.jpg?resize=360%2C239&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Murguia, the first Latino poet laureate of San Francisco, gave a humble and thankful inaugural address. Photo Clarivel Fong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alejandro Murgu\u00eda is soft spoken; his choice of words is deliberate as he teaches his introduction to Latina\/o studies class at San Francisco State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis class is designed to touch on the arts, sciences and history of the Latino community in the United States and in the San Francisco area,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t have a clear grasp of our roots\u2014where we come from\u2014then how can we be a voice of the community and incite change in our surroundings?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murgu\u00eda, 62, is not only educating students, he is introducing the world to the city of San Francisco. He was announced as San Francisco poet laureate in July 2012 by Mayor Ed Lee. He is the first Latino to be poet laureate of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>As many of Murgu\u00eda\u2019s contemporaries and those who have been able to get to know him can attest, educating the community and fostering a voice for the marginalized has been something that he has done all along.<\/p>\n<p>Murgu\u00eda traces his fondness for the written word to the tender age of five, and an experience he had reciting a poem about Christopher Columbus in kindergarten while living in Tijuana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember being in the third grade and proud that I had checked out over 30 books from the library and read them all. I still remember some of them to this day,\u201d Murgu\u00eda said. \u201cReading, which I emphasize with my students, is important for an intellectual and a writer. A lot of my trajectory is through reading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murgu\u00eda came to San Francisco from Los Angeles in the early 1970s and never left.<\/p>\n<p>He published his first book soon after moving to The City by the Bay, partly because of admiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of \u201cThe Great Gatsby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in part inspired by Fitzgerald, who publishes his first book when he is about 24. So my first book, \u2018Oracion a la Mano Poderosa,\u2019 comes out when I\u2019m 23 and a half,\u201d Murgu\u00eda said. \u201cI organized other poets and writers so we can set up our own publishing house. You don\u2019t have to ask permission from anyone, just go out and do it because you see a necessity in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Lorna Dee Cervantes, a Bay Area poet from the \u201870s, Murgu\u00eda was key in creating a literary scene in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlejandro was an inspiration for me,\u201d Cervantes said. \u201cHe opened the way for us Chicanos who wanted to get our work published. He was a doorstop and not a totem. He doesn\u2019t block others from trying to achieve success and he will help you reach your writing potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18536\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/2013\/01\/getting-to-know-alejandro-murguia\/alejandro-munguia-poet-laureate-inaugural-address-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18536\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18536 \" title=\"Alejandro Munguia Poet Laureate Inaugural Address\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alejandro-Murguia_02web.jpg?resize=360%2C240&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alejandro-Murguia_02web.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alejandro-Murguia_02web.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alejandro-Murguia_02web.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Molina (left) and Adrian Arias (center), Mission artists and community members, listen attentively to Alejandro Munguia on January 27, 2013 in San Francisco. Photo Clarivel Fong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Murgu\u00eda admits that his life as a writer and community organizer has ebbed and flowed in stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an uneven trajectory as a writer for me, there\u2019s periods where I\u2019m writing, there [are] other periods where I\u2019m an activist and an organizer,\u201d Murgu\u00eda said. \u201cThere\u2019s a period after being a community organizer and being one of the founders and directors of the Mission Cultural Center, that I ended up in a zone of conflict in Nicaragua, being a nationalist and fighting the civil war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When describing his writing style, Juan Felipe Herrera, the current California poet laureate and first Latino poet laureate, states that his writing is full of life and thrills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlejandro\u2019s style of writing is a lush, exotic tropicalism\u2014characters, settings and plots that are full of magic, wonder and hyper-reality,\u201d Herrera said. \u201cHe brings the plight of our people to a vivid reality and no one is better at capturing San Francisco and its people like Murgu\u00eda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jose Hector Cadena, a creative writing MFA student at SF State, said Murgu\u00eda and his writing have left a deep impact on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made me take a different approach and injected energy to continue writing,\u201d Cadena said. \u201cHe stirs up students to not just read and write for the sake of writing, but in order to move them into the community and through the community incite change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his accolades in writing and teaching, Murguia wasn\u2019t always studious. He states he was a failure in high school and he dropped out of college at the age of 19 returning to get his degrees later on in life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m about 38-years-old, when I return to college to finish my B.A. By then I had already published a book of poetry, two books of fiction, edited and published other writers, founded Tin Tan magazine, etc.,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I have to finish college in a way go back to school so I could get the quote on quote degrees to get out of the more working-class thing because I was driving for Muni at that time. And in fact, when I go back to school, I\u2019m still driving the trains and studying at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murgu\u00eda said that his receiving of the new title doesn\u2019t really validate his contributions to the Mission community. It is work that he has been doing since the start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not deceived that this is an honor strictly for me, I understand and accept it as an honor for my community in the Mission District and the Latino community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>(This article was produced in partnership with Professor Katynka Martinez\u2019s Latina\/Latino Journalism class at SF State University.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Murgu\u00eda is soft spoken; his choice of words is deliberate as he teaches his introduction to Latina\/o studies class at San Francisco State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":18531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1743,1651,1700,2000,2001],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alejandro-murguia","tag-juan-felipe-herrera","tag-mission-cultural-center-for-latino-arts","tag-oracion-a-la-mano-poderosa","tag-tin-tan-magazine","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Getting to know Alejandro Murgu\u00eda - El Tecolote<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alejandro Murgu\u00eda is soft spoken; 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