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May 4, 2009

Filipino Poet Al Robles Dies
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The Filipino poet and community activist Al Robles died in San Francisco
on Saturday. In 1996 the poet Russell Leong said of Robles, “Perhaps no
one has listened as closely to the voices of the Filipino American
community during the last thirty years.”



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