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Keynote Speech: Just the Beginning Foundation's Summer Legal Institute
On June 17, 2019, I had the honor of being the keynote speaker for the launch of this year’s Summer Legal Institute which was held at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. The Summer Legal Institute is a...
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Recharging at Battery
Rodríguez Harris Round-Robin Fills Pasadena's Indie Battery BooksMichael SedanoThe two poets reading in a local bookstore I'd never set foot in offered a powerful lure. Luis J. Rodríguez and Peter J....
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Migrant Children's Book Drive
A note from Monica Olivera: I'm reaching out to you today because I have partnered with Save the Children by hosting a book drive for the migrant children and their families recently released from the...
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Chicanonautica: Whither Goest Thou, Trumptopia?
by Ernest HoganI'm scheduled for the Fourth of July, so I should do something special, like take a look at whatthehell's going on and how it affects us Chicanonauts, here in Trumptopia. So...
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New Books
This week, another New Books column featuring an unlikely trio of new fiction for discriminating tastes -- and readers who enjoy a good story. Included is the debut novel from Richie Narvaez, an...
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Entrevista a Malena Flores por Xánath Caraza
Entrevista a Malena Flores por Xánath Caraza1. ¿Quién es Malena Flores?Nací en Xalapa, Veracruz, estudié Sociología y me he desarrollado profesionalmente en el área educativa, sin embargo siempre me...
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A different paradigm...
A Meeting By the RiverMichael SedanoThe landscape has a familiar feel to it, though one I've only imagined in myth, or bad dreams. Now I'm floating above formless terrain that undulates like viscous...
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Barely Missing Everything
By Matt Mendez Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Language:English ISBN-10:1534404457 ISBN-13:978-1534404458In the tradition of Jason...
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Ignoring the Past, Envisioning the Future
Jesus, The eldest son Three brickyards set up shop in Santa Monica and provided more work than there were bodies to...
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Hurricane Barry to hit New Orleans Tomorrow
Melinda PalacioThursday, July 11: The calm before the storm.I rolled into town two weeks ago. The mood was anticlimactic as the thought of celebrating Independence Day seemed an impossible farce given...
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Teaching magical realism at Fresno State as part of the CSU Summer Arts program
For four wonderful days (July 7 – 9), I was a guest author at Fresno State as part of the annual California State University’s Summer Arts program where I co-taught a course titled “Writing Magical...
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Truth, Beauty, Hang it on the wall. Part II:
Photo Essay: Rat-tail Night-blooming Cereus Michael Sedano“This blossom is so beautiful compared to any other flower, it knocks my socks off and I could die tomorrow knowing I haven’t missed a thing”...
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Macondo Afternoon Seminars
The Macondo Writers Workshop is an association of socially-engaged writers working to advance creativity, foster generosity, and serve community. Founded in 1998 by writer Sandra Cisneros and named...
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Chicanonautica: How to Win the Second Annual Extra-Fiction Contest
by Ernest HoganSomos en escrito, The Latino Literary Online Magazineis doing a second annual Extra-Fiction Contest. So if you’re an American writer of indigenous-hispanic background (Native American,...
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Love It or Leave It
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. -- Clarence DarrowLoyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.-- Mark TwainLove it or leave it....
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Art, Arreguin, and What Lies in the Bardo
Lisa Alvarado, Returning Guest ColumnistPhoto by Eva Blanchard ArceSeattle artist Alfredo Arreguin has exhibited his work internationally, most recently at the Museo de Cadiz in Spain (2015). He has...
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Lectura poética en Coatepec
Lectura poética en CoatepecPor Naty Blásquez “Alguien dice algo que sólo puede escuchar a través de sí mismo”Fragmento de “Ejecuciones (III)”, José Carlos BecerraHace poco más de dos años, acaso tres,...
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Report from the Camps, on the border, on the stage. Working in clay.
Today's La Bloga-Tuesday welcomes Guest Columnist Juanita Salazar Lamb in the first of a 2-part report from the U.S. border between Mexico and Texas. Saturday, La Bloga continues Salazar Lamb's report...
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Public Events at Macondo Writers Workshop
The Macondo Writers Workshop is an association of socially-engaged writers working to advance creativity, foster generosity, and serve community. Founded in 1998 by writer Sandra Cisneros and named...
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1.3 Million Viewers Absorb U.S. Foreign Policy in Mexican Popular Culture
Kate Del Castillo's "Willing Suspension of Disbelief" Artists, whether playwrights, novelists, screenwriters, painters,...
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