Blood, & Only The Blood

Enrique García Naranjo is a poet, performer, and pocho from Tucson, Arizona. He is a Tucson Youth Poetry Slam alumnus and a Spoken Futures INC staff member. Having grown up in a working class, immigrant community, García Naranjo, through his poetry, explores Chicanx identity and the language of resistance. His involvement in the community of Tucson is deeply rooted; García Naranjo facilitates poetry and social justice workshops in underserved community spaces. In 2014, García Naranjo published his debut collection of poetry, “Tortoise Boy Says,” through Spoken Futures Press. In 2015, he was awarded the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund grant for his activism and art in Tucson. García Naranjo’s work has been published by and included in The LA Times, The Acentos Review, Sunday Kinfolk, and more. Between reading, performing and teaching, García Naranjo can be found crate digging for vinyl and spinning at a block party. Follow his antics on twitter (@yungvat0).