A nationally prominent spoken word artist from San Francisco, published poet, playwright, and award winning novelist, who also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State. Paul S.
My grandmother's taste for old Cuban and Mexican music Beny More, Javier Solis, Celia Cruz, My grandfather's stories working at Hotel Reforma in Mexico City and meeting Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth, and his immigrant stories in New Orleans, Ohio, Gary
My mother's love and hard work raising me by herself on a Pacific Bell union job, Chicago Cubs, Quincy Troupe, Jimmy Santiago Baca, My wife Tamaya's cooking and salsa dancing, my uncle Peter's love of George Micheal and Urban Cowboy, Damage Club
Long lines to cross the Tijuana Border back to San Diego after 2AM with my friends Will and Albert. Watching Bamuthi raise his son and create two outstanding performance pieces, multiple trips to Cuba and Mexico, drinking Flor de Caña and Havana Club
smoking puros with Norman and Darren, Youth Speaks teen poets whom I worked with for over 10 years
