Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Putting down the letters. – March 26, 2011. Boyle Heights, CA – A night of written letters and spoken words, a young man prepares for his turn on the dais.
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
It took me way too long to post this writer. I first read Aquino while part of a writers workshop: www.theundeniables.org.
But it was on the last day of this seasons Tuesday Night Cafe in J-Town that I met him. The Tuesday Night Cafe is a poetry and performance showcase that has survived for eleven years under the navigation of Traci Kato-Kiriyama. He dedicated this poem to her on the night I was there. I’ve wanted to post it since that day and I’m glad I finally got around to doing this.
Below is the poem he read on that night and I’ve included two other poems by Aquino.
Enjoy.
Rafael Cardenas, was born in 1971 in Pihuamo, Jalisco: a small town in the central part of Mexico on the western coast. His parents migrated to the US in 1974. He grew up in, and still lives in, East Los Angeles. His writing and photography comes from his fascination with words and the creative process.