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San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival November 2019
Melinda PalacioNext month, I have the honor Of being a featured poet at the 36th Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival. November is a busy month. However, I would love to see some La Bloga subscribers...
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Voices from the Ancestors at Ave50. Gluten-free Chicano cooks. Autry Mural...
Rigor, Received Knowledge, Learning to ThinkReview: Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales, Eds.Voices from the Ancestors. Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices. Tucson:...
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Manlio Argueta & Jorge Argueta: Book Presentation
Saturday, October 26 at 2 PM – 4 PM2969 Mission St. San FranciscoBay Area Family,Please join as we celebrate legendary Salvadoran author Manlio Argueta’s latest novel, Así en la tierra como en las...
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Chicanonautica: Latinx and Beyond
by Ernest HoganA writer does a lot of waiting. In the old days it was for old-fashioned physical mail; now it's email and other innovations, but it's still the same thing: waiting for editors and...
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New Books
This week: a pair of books for those cold, windy, starless evenings when something doesn't feel right, when the air lays heavy in the stuffy house, when unusual noises echo in the shadowy corners....
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Interview of Juan Morales by Xánath Caraza
Interview of Juan Morales by Xánath CarazaXánath Caraza: Who is Juan Morales? Juan Morales: I grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where I was raised by my Ecuadorian mother and Puerto...
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Francisco X. Alarcón is a good friend of La Bloga who has walked on. Adelante, Francisco! Here is our friend reading a pair of works outside Doheny Library the first day of the Festival de Flor y...
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Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers
By Celia C. Pérez*Age Range: 9 - 12 years*Grade Level: 4 - 7*Hardcover: 384 pages*Publisher: Kokila (September 3, 2019)*Language: English*ISBN-10: 0425290433*ISBN-13: 978-0425290439...
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Elements of Style Take Many Forms
by Daniel Cano On the Altar of Rhetoric, Death, and Sacrifice Something just hit me. Today is Halloween. I suppose I...
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My Heart, Mis Muertas. Poems to Honor My Ancestors
Melinda PalacioNext Saturday, I have the honor or reading matriarchal poems, honoring my grandmother and mother, at the C.D. Wright Women's Conference in Conway, Arkansas. I've never been to Arkansas...
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Legendary L.A. Chicano Art Space, Self Help Graphics, Honored in First Major...
Now at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas in Austin is a new exhibition Arte Sin Fronteras which honors work from the legendary Self Help Graphics & Artstudio of Los Angeles. This...
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News 'n Notes
On November 22-24, the Art History Department, the Chicana/o Studies Department, the LGBTQ Studies Program, and the Herb Alpert School of Music (with a small contribution from the Center for Mexican...
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Octopus Stew
By Eric Velasquez *Age Range: 4 - 8 years*Grade Level: Preschool - 3*Hardcover: 40 pages*Publisher: Holiday House*Language: English*ISBN-10: 082343754X*ISBN-13: 978-0823437542What do you do when an...
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Chicanonautica: Further Thoughts on Judging Extra-Fiction
by Ernest HoganOnce again I judged the finalists of Somos en escrito: The Online Latino Literary Magazine’s Extra-FictionContest.It is an honor to be have been chosen to do it for the first two years....
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End of the Year New Books
Coming down to the wire, three more books make their bids for your attention in 2019. An interesting trio ranging from advocacy for Native American children abused by the foster care system, to a pair...
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UnidosUS and the Smithsonian Latino Center Day of the Dead Celebration:...
UnidosUS and the Smithsonian Latino Center Day of the Dead Celebration: Making History Togetherby Xánath CarazaOfrenda para Día de Muertos. From left to right: Frida Larios, Local Community Artist;...
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Veterans Day 2019: If they listened.
Michael SedanoDon’t cry when you look at the intensity in the eyes of that young true believer Chicano G.I. He knows better; he's just pretending. I cry anyhow, but I'm a softie. I knew him.It’s his...
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Opportunities: Grants and Postdoc Fellowship
From Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage,Check out the opportunities we are offering for US Latino research made possible by financial support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, including:...
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Three Days After Veterans Day
All American boys, Aurelio Villa, lower left, unaware of what the future holds. (circa 1940)by Daniel CanoFrom personal journal...
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