“School/Period”: Chicano Renaissance

By Javier Huerta

I would like to make a suggestion to the Poetry Foundation: that “Chicano Renaissance” be added as a “School/Period” in its Poems/Poets page. In order for this to work, though, the Poetry Foundation would have to add the following poets not yet included on their website: alurista, Alberto “Lalo” Delgado, Jose Montoya, Raul Salinas, Luis Omar Salinas, Ricardo Sanchez. A whole generation is missing from these pages. Movimiento. Floricanto. The generation I love. I trust that the Poetry Foundation is doing its best to represent the diversity of American poetries, and that soon it will recognize this important movement in American Literature and History. In the meantime, and in the spirit of National Poetry Month, I share with you six poets from the Chicano Renaissance.