Thursday, February 14, 2008

Calaca Press founders, Brent & Chelo Beltran, to host an Homenaje in Califas on Saturday

Homenaje al Xicanindio
Un Poetic Viaje con las Palabras de raúlrsalinas


RIP/DEP Raul R. Salinas
March 17, 1934 - February 13, 2008


Join the Calacas as we pay tribute, in his own words, to poet Raul R. Salinas.

This Saturday, February 16
7pm
FREE
Donations will be accepted on behalf of his wife, Lila Salinas, for funeral and other arrangements.

Calacalandia
Home of Chelo y Brent de Calaca Press
[email for directions - see email address below]
National City, Califas


Help us memorialize and pay homage to a person who committed his life to making a better world possible.

A recording of Raul’s classic Chicano poem, Un Trip Through the Mind Jail, will be played.

And the following individuals will read from his work:
Miguel-Angel Soria
Manuel J. Vélez
Victor Ochoa
Mariajulia Urias
Consuelo Manríquez de Beltrán
Brent E. Beltrán
and others

If interested in reading one of Raul’s poems please contact Brent at calacapress@cox.net or 619.920.1713.

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