“¡Presente! Heroes/Sheroes y Otras Cosas” by Los Delicados (Paul Flores, Darren de Leon, Norman Zelaya, Jimmy Biala on percussion)
from their CD Word Descarga on Calaca Press

      Calaca Press is a bonfire burning in California, an energy revolution of Chicano/Chicana spoken word, creating big light & roaring sound in books & CDs from such luminescent poets as Sandra C. Muñoz, Elba Rosario Sánchez, robertkarimi, raúlrsalinas & the Taco Shop Poets.

Described by Latin Beat magazine as “urban griots paving a way for a spoken-word revolution,” Los Delicados combine theater, music & poetry in a rhythmic, intoxicating, truly live performance. (And once you've been to the Calaca Press' online Poesía library to hear them, you'll find lots of other audio samples worth listening to.)

• Coleman Barks, “Spring Morning”
• Ernie Cline, “Tech Support”
• Billy Collins, “Japan”
• Emily Dickinson, “I cannot live with You”
• Rita Dove, “Parsley”
• GNO, Jason Carney & Jason Edwards (Team Dallas 1998), “Superheroes”
• Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Trumpet Player”
• June Melby, “Dust”
• Tracie Morris, “Chain Gang”
• Sylvia Plath, “On the Decline of Oracles”
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
• John Powers, “Thayer Street Blues”
• Molly Raynor, “Wings”
• Maureen Seaton, “Caprice”
• Lizzie Wann, “Patricia Said”
• Walt Whitman, “America”