Excerpts from My Past My Way – Raul Sanchez
Dec 2nd, 2014 by jennie
Raul Sanchez connects to his readers with his unreserved storytelling about his own background. With bright descriptions and mixed English and Spanish lines, Sanchez’s poems paint cultural scenes that open a world to his audience.
Sanchez comes from a place south where the sun shines fiercely, where Indigenous and European cultures collided. He is a translator, a Bio-Tech technician, and an avid collector of poetry books, who occasionally volunteers as a DJ for KBCS 91.3 FM. His inaugural collection, All Our Brown-Skinned Angels, published by MoonPath Press, was nominated for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry for 2013. He has read the book from Vancouver, WA to Bellingham since May 2012.
SoundPages was produced by Jack Straw Cultural Center as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program. All of the writers heard in this series are published in the Jack Straw Writers Anthology, and featured online at http://www.jackstraw.org/.
Music by Victor Noriega/2 Trios and produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
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