Adrián Arancibia is a poet, writer, educator and, along with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Miguel-Angel Soria

Miguel-Angel Soria

Miguel-Angel Soria is a Chicano community artist–activist from San Diego, California. He sometimes goes by the pen-name osokodiako. Raised a few blocks from Tijuana's Avenida Revolucion, he and his family eventually arrived on the U.S. side and settled in the San Ysidro–Nestor area of San...

, a founding veteran of the seminal Chicano

Chicano

The terms "Chicano" and "Chicana" are used in reference to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. However, those terms have a wide range of meanings in various parts of the world. The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's...

 spoken-word collective the Taco Shop Poets

Taco Shop Poets

Taco Shop Poets is the name of a poetry and spoken word collective formed in 1994 at a Poetry Series, Taco Shop Poetry',' hosted by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park, San Diego. It grew to a collective of over 30 poets, band members and performance artists based...

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Adrián Arancibia was born in Iquique, Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 in 1971. Arancibia is the co-editor of the Taco Shop Poets Anthology: Chorizo Tonguefire and currently writes for the San Diego Union Tribune and for national magazines like The Green Magazine. While completing his Ph.D. in Literature at U.C. San Diego, he became an assistant professor at Miramar Community College. His creative work depicts and comments on the lives of immigrants on the border. His critical work focuses on performance poetry

Performance poetry

Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed for performance rather than print distribution.-History:...

 and the genre's relation to social spaces. He is slated to release a collection of prose and poetry in June 2007 titled Atacama Poems through City Works Press.

Arancibia has appeared in the HBO documentary Americanos: Latino Life in the United States, Gregory Nava's PBS dramatic series American Family

American Family

American Family is a photographic artwork exhibition by Renée Cox.-External links:* *...

(2002), and is profiled in Hector Galán's ITVS documentary series on Latina/o arts: Visiones (2004). His ten-year performance history has brought him into spoken word venues, cultural centers, universities, galleries and taquerias internationally in a continuing effort to bring proactive Chicano spoken word to relevant spaces including Mexico City's Casa Del Lago, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Nuyorican Poets Café

The Nuyorican Poets Café is a non-profit organization in Alphabet City, Manhattan. It is a bastion of the Nuyorican art movement in New York City, USA, and has become a forum for poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy and theatre.-History:...

 and a guerrilla-style poetry takeover at The Alamo in San Antonio.

External links

- http://www.avisale.org

- An Interview at UCSB featuring the Taco Shop Poets (Includes Adrián Arancibia): http://www.uctv.ucsb.edu/more/voices/m3815arancibia.html