Arnoldo Garcia

Saturday, june 24
World Ground Coffee
3726 MacArthur Boulevard

Arnoldo García is originally from the deep south of Texas. Currently he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and combines visual arts, music, spoken word and poetry in his work as a culture-maker. Arnoldo is also a musician rooted in Mexican and Latin American traditions and a poet, writer and editor. His work has been featured in the online literary journal, La Bloga, and is a featured poet in different cultural and political gatherings, opening for the international forum “Defending the Displaced: Border Justice and Migrant Rights,” convened by UC Berkeley’s The Othering and Belonging Institute. Arnoldo’s poetry is featured in the new book “Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in a Time of Rebellion,” with photographs, essays, and poems documenting the explosion of anti-racist and racial justice graffiti art and murals that hit the walls and the streets of Oakland in outrage over the police murder of George Floyd. Arnoldo co-founded Editorial Xingao and has helped publish two collections of poetry featuring diverse poets in “XicKorea: words, rants poems together” and “Poets against War and Racism/Poetas contra la guerra y el racism.” He is also the editor and publisher of a forthcoming series of chapbooks that will bring new writing by Chicano, Xicana, Palestinian and Indigenous poets in North America. You can read his poetry on the blogs he curates, La carpa del FEO: Fandango in East Oakland and Art of the Commune.