F. G. Manos
F. G. Manos, California poet and theatre maker. Manos facilitates writing and performance art spaces with prisoners, youth, and college students in the Bay Area and the United Kingdom, using metaphor alongside personal narrative to shape social commentary as catalysts for storytelling. Manos seeks to foster agency of voice in those he guides and creates with. He’s been the recipient of awards from The California Arts Council, Art Noir’s Jar of Love fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Arts Council England. And has been published by Los Angeles Poet Society Press, The Puerto Rico Review, The Acentos Review, Nomadic Press, and ArtePublico Press; and featured as LoWriter of the Week selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.
My Nahua ancestors taught me two things about poetry- one is that poetry is flower-and-song, and the other is that poetry is like the flint knife, cutting through bone down into the marrow of truth. In other words, poetry’s potency can be quite beautiful, flowery, and so serious it can center itself in the depths of us.
- F. G. Manos