Gary Soto, born April 12, 1952, was raised in Fresno, California. He is the author of eleven poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry International, and Poetry, which

Story

• Gary soto was a men that make poetry
• In 1995 he do alot of poetry as stories
• He have a museum on fresno california
• And he always want to be one of the famous
• Peotry persons on the world.

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• He have a musem un fresno california.
• In 1995 he do one of the famous poetry.
• He admire people that never give up.
• He always said that peotey is not a
• Job is ART.

He received the 1993 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Film Excellence. In 1997, because of his advocacy for reading, he was featured as

In the NBC’s, Person-of-the-Week. In 1999, he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association,