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Native Son and Poet returns to Livingston

Monolin Moreno talks about growing up in the city in a different time . . .

Interview with ‘Manny’ Moreno by Kathy Hibma,

Livingston Chronicle correspondent, Livingston, California; October 15, 2008



Native Californian and poet Monolin “Manny” Moreno, at his Modesto reading in July ’08



Manny signs a copy of his debut collection at Modesto reading in July ’08



A Modesto poetry reading and celebration by… Continue

The writer who wrote the following piece about mysecond book signing is: Lillian Vallee , a Central Valley poet, award-winning translator, and instructor of English at Modesto Junior College.





Lillian Vallee was the translator for :

Czeslaw Milosz

The Nobel Prize Winner in Literature 1980









Rivers of Birds, Forests of Tules:

Central Valley Nature & Culture in… Continue

Introduction



One sweltering day in August, while waiting for the green arrow at a stoplight, I see, in the rearview mirror, a tiny wheelchair making its way down the sidewalk to my right. I feel a pang when I realize it is a friend of mine in his seventies; he is clutching a bag and using his feet rather than the wheels to propel himself along. He is diabetic, endures dialysis every other day, yet somehow has found the energy to remove… Continue