Adrian Arancibia

Adrián Arancibia is a poet, writer, educator and, along with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Miguel-Angel Soria, a founding veteran of the seminal Chicano spoken-word collective the Taco Shop Poets.

Adrián Arancibia was born in Iquique, Chile in 1971. Arancibia is the co-editor of the "" and currently writes for the [http://www.signonsandiego.com San Diego Union Tribune] and for national magazines like [http://www.thegreenmagazine.com The Green Magazine] . While completing his Ph.D. in Literature at U.C. San Diego, he became an assistant professor at [http://www.sdmiramar.edu Miramar Community College] . His creative work depicts and comments on the lives of immigrants on the border. His critical work focuses on performance poetry 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 [http://www.cityworkspress.org City Works Press] .

Arancibia has appeared in the HBO documentary "", Gregory Nava's PBS dramatic series "American Family" (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 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]