{"id":2350,"date":"2016-01-24T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2016-01-24T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:20:01","slug":"in-memoriam-poet-and-childrens-author-francisco-alarcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2350","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Poet and children&#8217;s author Francisco Alarc?n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poet and children&#8217;s author?Francisco Alarc?n has passed away at the age of 61. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-francisco-alarcon-20160121-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The L.A.-born Chicano poet and factory laborer who worked his way from adult school, East L.A. College and <a title=\"California State University, Long Beach\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/california-state-university-long-beach-OREDU0000463-topic.html\">Cal State Long Beach<\/a> to Stanford University died Friday of stomach cancer in his Davis home, still eschewing that final punctuation. He was 61.<\/p>\n<p>His death ended a prolific career as a bilingual poet, children&#8217;s author and professor at<a title=\"UC Davis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/uc-davis-OREDU000664-topic.html\">UC Davis<\/a>. Alarc?n, once a finalist for California poet laureate, was known for his poetry about immigrants, love and the indigenous languages and traditions of Mexico, and also for bilingual books of children&#8217;s verse, which he called ?the best thing I&#8217;ve done in my life.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-francisco-alarcon-20160121-story.html\">For a full obituary, please visit the Los Angeles Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Poet and children&#8217;s author?Francisco Alarc?n has passed away at the age of 61. Via Los Angeles Times: The L.A.-born Chicano poet and factory laborer who worked his way from adult school, East L.A. College and Cal State Long Beach to Stanford University died Friday of stomach cancer in his Davis home, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,64,59],"tags":[586,585,476],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-in-memoriam","category-people","tag-francisco-alarcon","tag-glbt-author","tag-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}