Cheech Marin on Born in East LA @ALOUDla

Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In this clip, Cheech Marin recalls the news story that inspired the hit parody song BORN IN EAST LA.

$Why We Write WHY WE WRITE Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson Reading and Conversation July 12, 2016 | ALOUD @ Central Library For twenty years, groundbreaking poets Eileen Myles (Chelsea Girls; I Must be Living Twice) and Maggie Nelson (National Book Critics Circle Award, The Argonauts) have been friends, mutual influences, and interlocutors on the experiences of living in a poetry and gender inflected writing world. Myles’ latest work—a collection of old and new poems—refracts a radical world and a compelling life. Nelson’s genre-bending memoir, The Argonauts, calls for radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking. Together on stage to read both poetry and prose, these two ground-breaking writers then will join in conversation to, as Myles says, “let thoughts rip.”$

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Cheech Marin on Born in East LA