Fresno Poet Luis Omar Salinas dies at 70

Posted on: June 2nd, 2008
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“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. “*

*From: http://www.fresnobee.com
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