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Border Crossing Chicken - Latino USA Episode 433
Episode 433 aired on July 27, 2001. This segment is a performance of Quique Aviles’ poem, “Border Crossing Chicken.”
Border Crossing Chicken
Quique Aviles is a poet from Washington, D.C. He was born in El Salvador and attended the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. In addition to being a poet, he is also a performer and community activist. He is the founder and co-founder of two community organizations, the LatiNegro Theater Collective and LatiNegro Theater Collective, respectively. He published his first book of poetry, _The Immigrant Museum_ in 2004. He has also written and performed in multiple one-man shows related to issues of race and identity. His commentary has been featured in several episodes of Latino USA.
Additional Resources
Books and Book Chapters
Ambroggio, Luis Alberto, et al. Al pie de la Casa Blanca : poetas hispanos de Washington, DC / [Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Carlos Parada Ayala, eds.]. Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2010.
Hernández, Paola S., and Analola Santana. “Quique Avilés (El Carmen, El Salvador/ Washington, DC, 1965-).” Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre, edited by Paola S. Hernández and Analola Santana, 1st ed., vol. 1, Routledge, 2022, pp. 33–36, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003144700-5.
Magazine Articles
AVILÉS, QUIQUE. “A Third Citizenship.” Washington History, vol. 31, no. 1/2, 2019, pp. 29–34.
Aviles, Quique. “Worth Noting ...(Quique Aviles Speaks on the Role of the Artist in Enacting Social Change).” Sojourners Magazine, vol. 32, no. 4, 2003, p. 53.
Videos
Walton, Ellie, et al. La Manplesa : An Uprising Remembered / Cinema Guild ; a Film by Ellie Walton ; Producers, Cindy Centeno, Max Avilés, Quique Avilés, Sonya Robbins Hoffman, Sabiyha Prince. Cinema Guild, 2022.
Works Cited
“Quique Avilés.” Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, 19 Jan. 2016, https://lannan.georgetown.edu/past-guests/quique-aviles/ .
Border Crossing Chicken - Latino USA Episode 433
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My name is Quique Aviles and I'm a poet and performer from Washington DC and this poem is called Border Crossing Chicken.
Quique Aviles
Poetry
Immigration
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The chicken crossed the border to taste some Kentucky Fried chicken. The chicken crossed the border to meet Frank Purdue.
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Immigration
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The chicken crossed cause the other side wanted to play a quick game of chicken.
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Immigration
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The chicken crossed wanting to meet the gay lobby and shake hands with feminist hands.
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Immigration
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The chicken crossed to sign a bilateral bilingual bisexual chicken free trade agreement.
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The chicken crossed to look into American chicken deportation methodology.
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Immigration
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The chicken crossed to deliver a spanish-speaking pizza. The chicken crossed to be a contestant in Miss Chicken USA.
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Immigration
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The chicken crossed to fall in love with a new-age rooster guru.
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Immigration
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The chicken crossed to lambada with Californian chicks. The chicken crossed for four years of studies at Chicken MIT.
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The chicken crossed to learn Black chicken slang. The chicken crossed out of curiosity, wonder and need.
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The chickens simply wanted to get a chance to meet the other chicken. The chicken simply wanted to look you in the eyes.
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Immigration
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Quique Aviles is a Salvadoran born poet based in Washington DC.
Maria Hinojosa
Washington DC