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Carmen Tafolla was a self proclaimed writer from San Antonio, Texas and was born on July 29th, 1951.
She attended college at the University of Texas at Austin. She honors her Mexican heritage and adores the Chicana culture.
Sources: Carmen Tafolla image retrieved from: http://www.utsa.edu/today/2015/05/tafolla.html
-Emiliano Ramirez

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Peter Meinke was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City. He was a poet and also a short story writer. Peter Meinke earned a Bachelors in Arts at Hamilton College and then served for two years in the Army during which time he was stationed in Wurzburg, Germany. He later earned an MA. He published his dissertation on the work of poet Howard Nemerov. He has published numerous volumes of poetry.

~~~~~~David Alvarado

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Facts:  Tupac's real name was Lesane Parish Crooks
but his  mother, Afeni Shakur, changed it to Tupac Shakur after the South African revolutionary Tupac Aramu when he was 1 years old. He took ballet classes at the Baltimore School of Arts. He produced a whole album in a week. He dated Madonna. -Lea(Herbo) Haddad

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His death has remained one of popular culture's biggest mysteries, but the handgun that was used to shoot and kill Tupac Shakur turned up in a Compton, California, back yard 19 years ago.

But according to the A&E docu-series Who Killed Tupac, no one in law enforcement seems to know where it is today.

The new ground-breaking information was revealed by the show after a police document was dug up by the producers.

It claims that an A.40 caliber Glock gun was found by a local resident in his backyard in 1998, which he reported to police. Compton PD records show it was booked as found property on 30 May 1998.

By 2000, LA County Sheriff's Dept took over law enforcement of Compton, and 3,800 confiscated firearms - including the aforementioned Gloc - were transferred to the LASD.

But when Deputy T Brennan - who had been working on the Notorious BIG murder - was going through records in 2006, he recognised the address where the gun was found. It was the home of the girlfriend of a prominent Crips member, known to have been one of Tupac's enemies.

On the night he died, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson from the Crips gang was beaten up by Tupac and his entourage.

After the address discovery, the deputy immediately ordered ballistic testing and the results came back a match for the firearm used to kill Tupac.

Instead of the murder weapon being sent to Las Vegas, where the Ghetto Gospel rapper's murder was still unsolved, a federal prosecutor assigned to the case highlighted concerns that the discovery might alert potential conspirators. Because of this, it was recommended that the gun should not be turned over to LVPD.

A&E have claimed to have contacted LVPD, with some officers stating that the gun didn't ever make it to them, while others say they were unsure. Its current location is now unknown, however.

There has been much speculation over whether Pac really died after being gunned down in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996, aged 25. Rap mogul Knight was also caught in the crossfire in the shooting after the pair had earlier attended the Mike Seldon vs Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand. They were stationary at a red traffic light when a "bow-tied" assassin opened fire at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Las Vegas.

Shakur's last words were "f**k you" when he was wounded at the scene and was later taken to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. He was heavily sedated at the hospital and placed on life-support machines before being put under a barbiturate-induced coma after repeatedly trying to get out of the bed.

He died on the afternoon of 13 September 1996 from internal bleeding. Doctors attempted to revive him but could not stop the haemorrhaging.

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His death has remained one of popular culture's biggest mysteries, but the handgun that was used to shoot and kill Tupac Shakur turned up in a Compton, California, back yard 19 years ago. But according to the A&E docu-series Who Killed Tupac, no one in law enforcement seems to know where it is today.

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Ishmael Reed is a winner of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (genius award),

Ishmael Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on 22 February 1938, but he grew up in Buffalo.

This is him
-Oscar Aguirre

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Facts:

Alice work as psychologist at two New York nursing.

Alice thought that the old people wanted to talk to the meaning of life which make her kind of interest of other people life.                                                 CITE- Bush, G. (2013). Indivisible: Poems for social justice. Norwood House Press.
(couldn’t find cite only other who had the same name as her.)

-Angel Gomez

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1.He was born in Mexico in 1955
2.He came to the United States and worked on poetry and music and Mexican American goth in 1978.
http://www.pochanostra.com/antes/jazz_pocha2/mainpages/bios.htm
-Salvador Perez

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A fact about Guillermo Gomez-Pena is that he was in two movies: Seeing is Believing and the other movie is called The Great Mojado Invasion. The second fact about Gomez is that he is also a performance artist, writer, activist, artist, and an educator.

-Freddy Cruz

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Luis J Rodriguez was born in El Paso in the year 1954.

Luis J Rodriguez has a total of 15 books.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/luis-j-rodríguez

by Jaeson

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The author of This is a poem to my son Peter is, Peter Meinke. Peter Meinke is an author of 18 poems, his poem, Piano Tuner, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short stories.

Peter Meinke. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/peter-meinke

-Jori Shorter

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Gogisgi’s American name is Carroll Arnett but his native name is Gogisgi. He lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and he is of Cherokee-French ancestry. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1946 to 1947. Gogisgi made this poem called Look Back.
Source: http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A82

- Terreon Banks

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Gogisgi's name is Carroll Arnett and he lived in Oklahoma City. He was born on November 9, 1927 and died 1997.
-arianna pena

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Facts
1. Ishmael Reed won the  prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (Genius award)

2.  Ishmael Reed was in a movie called  Personal Problems

by - Takoda Espinosa

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AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club

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Ishmael Reed - Novelist, Poet, MacArthur Fellow, and National Book Award Nominee

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Ishmael Reed author information including a biography, photograph, list of published books, video, interviews, articles, book reviews and more.

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He was born in Brooklyn in 1932. Meinke published his first poetry collection, The Night Train & the Golden Bird (University of Pittsburgh Press), in 1976.

Peter Meinke - Poetry. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.connotationpress.com/hoppenthaler-s-congeries/january-2015/2472-peter-meinke-poetry

Marcos Rios

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He was born November 9,1927.

He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was former former Deer Clan Chief of the Overhill Band of the Cherokee Nation.

- Yaritza Perez

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Facts
She was born May 9,1951 in Oklahoma.

At the age of 66 she is currently a poet, author, and musician.

She has won many poetry awards like the Josephine Miles Poetry Award and the
Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Julian Swayzer

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Luis was born in 1954 in  El paso, TX. He was in jail for gang banging. He wrote Piece by Piece to show people that were in gangs that they aren't alone to show that they can still change in a way he did. Luis went back to school to finish up his classes once he dropped drugs. He quit school again and went back to drugs. He spoke in schools and libraries and wrote a love poem for Los Angeles and once he wrote a poem he felt like that was him.

Stephanie Pdilla

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1. Guillermo Gomez-Pena was born on September 23,1955 in Mexico City.
2. Guillermo Gomez-Pena is an Activist as well as an Educator.
3. Guillermo Gomez-Pena won some awards for Mac Author fellowship award and a American book award.
: Luna Morales

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Carmen Tafolla is a native of the West-Side barrios of San Antonio, Texas, Tafolla earned a BA, MA, a PhD from the University of Texas, Austin.

Tafolla is the author of Sonnets and Salsa, a collection of poems — including many unconventional sonnets — that "thematically cross cultures and move into questions of human survival on this earth.”

-Gabriela Zizumbo
References:
Carmen Tafolla. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/carmen-tafolla

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Amina Baraka’s birth name is Syvia Robinson. She is also an actress and is most popularly known for Keep It Clean , The Pact, and Word Warriors III.
- Cera Flores-Ramos

-  Biography. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2318726/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

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(by Billy Fuller)

Facts :

1. One fact about the poem is that she is saying to not judge people the way they look .

Bush, G. (2013). Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice. Norwood House Press.

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Alice Mishkin at the time was 80 when she wrote this poem. She thought that older people wanted to talk about how they found the meaning of life through the process of coping with the events in their life.

Source:

Indivisible.(n.d.).Retrievedfromhttps://books.google.com/books?id=gAg3nZ520jEC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=Alice+Mishkin+poem&source=bl&ots=b9ywpZPIVB&sig=HzQU-Dg1hH7FQ8VqLjzQc_rHIKM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzmdifsILZAhUMeKwKHassDXwQ6AEIRzAI#v=onepage&q=Alice Mishkin poem&f=false

-Brianna Anthony

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Tupac’s birth name is Lesane Parish Crooks.

He was raised under the black panthers.

Sources:

Briceño, N. (n.d.). 28 Things You Didn't Know About Tupac Shakur. Retrieved from https://www.buzzfeed.com/norbertobriceno/aint-nothin-but-a-gangsta-party?utm_term=.rl0l3pOvr#.csQLvD9l8

Tupac Shakur. (2018, January 19). Retrieved from https://www.biography.com/people/tupac-shakur-206528

-Akiyah Wafford

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1. Ishmael Reed was born on February 22, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  He received an Honorary Doctorate in 1998.
2. Ismael Reed also taught creative writing courses for thirty years and retired in 2005.

Bibliography: About Ishmael Reed. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://ishmaelreed.org/drupal/node/1

http://ishmaelreed.org/drupal/node/1

-Aramis Alicea

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The author is Dorothy Parker. It is interesting that Dorothy wrote 7 poems that are famous.

And another interesting fact is that her education ended when she was only 14.

References

Dorothy Parker. (2014, April 30). Retrieved from https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dorothy-parker
By: LaDarius Miller

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1.Born in El Paso, Texas,  poet, writer, former teacher, university administrator, museum director, and consultant, Pat Mora is a popular national speaker who promotes creativity, inclusivity and book joy.

2.Her numerous awards and fellowships include the Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship, fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, four Southwest Book awards and the Premio Aztlán Literature Award.

Cite: 1.

Pat Mora. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/pat-mora

cite:2:

Marianne Boruch. (2018, January 11). Retrieved from https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/pat-mora

Enrique Ramirez

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Chitra Divakaruni was born July 29, 1956

Her work has been published in over 50 magazine

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Bio. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/about/bio/

-Sophia Vargas

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Interesting Facts
He was born in 1955 and raised in Mexico City . Gómez-Peña had come to the US in 1978 .Guillermo Gomez - Pena is from Mexico City , Mexico he came to the U.S in 1978.  He works as performance art, video, audio, installations, poetry, journalism, and cultural theory, explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language.
Source  -  Nostra, P. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.pochanostra.com/antes/jazz_pocha2/mainpages/bios.htm

Picture -  https://publicevents.denison.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/guillermogomezpena.jpg

~ Dayana Sanchez #312

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Here are some facts about Francisco.
1. He made some of his poems based on his grandmothers songs.
2. He started poetry when he was thirteen.
3. Some of his poems are portrayed by mythology.

Esteban Garcia

sources-

1. Bush, G. (2013). Indivisible: Poems for social justice. Norwood House Press.

2. “Francisco X. Alarcón.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/francisco-x-alarcon.