Fresno Poet Luis Omar Salinas dies at 70 From: fresnobee.com
Tagged: California, family, Fresno, studentPosted on: June 2nd, 2008
Luis Omar Salinas, an influential poet associated with Philip Levine and other Fresno poets, managed a successful literary career and enjoyed the support of family in Sanger.
Mr. Salinas, 70, died Sunday of chronic pulmonary disease.
Levine taught Mr. Salinas as a young student at Fresno State College in the 1960s, and realized he was watching an incipient poet. “*
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