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International Latino Book Awards 2020: Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book...
International Latino Book Awards 2020: Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award—Spanish por Xánath Caraza El sábado, 12 de septiembre, a las 4:30 p.m. CST, comenzó la ceremonia de premiación para...
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Life On the Urban Farm: Heat Stroke and Lions
Heat Stroke and Lions On McDonald's Urban FarmMichael Sedano Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a cleft in an unnamed mountain range eroded into a foothill arroyo that time, and rainfall, filled with...
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International Latino Book Awards 2020 Ganadores
Congratulations to all the ganadores. This is the Children Book Award category (A1). To see the complete list of winners visit,...
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Musings While Watching "Tombstone:" Are Americans Living in a Movie?
I changed channels, ah, Tombstone. Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) walked into a near-empty...
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Puppy Love Solves Pandemic Fatigue
Melinda PalacioWhen Pandora sleeps, it's time to write. I can check all the boxes: zoom fatigue, social distancing fatigue, mask fatigue, fatigue of feeling fatigue. However, adopting a puppy has...
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An Ethnic Studies Victory in California: ¡Si, Se Puede!
By Dr. Álvaro HuertaOn August 7, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1460 (ethnic studies bill) by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego). Focusing on the California State University...
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Resist: The Chicana Anti-War Poetry and Art of Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin
Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin at the caravan. Also joining are Chamberlin's daughter and granddaughter.They Took My Son to Vietnam Vibiana Aparicio-ChamberlinI dedicate this poem to our forgotten...
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Los Angeles Libros Festival
For more information visit, https://www.lapl.org/libros-fest Un festival del libro bilingüe para toda la familia.A free bilingual book festival for the whole family. Saturday, September 26,...
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Chicanonautica: Ernesto Publishing Updates
by Ernest HoganFor reasons I can’t fathom, my writing career has taken off running during this quarantine. It drags me along, keeping me busy, and giving me so much stuff to announce that I have a...
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Six-Word Story Contest and New Books
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. ” Enter a 6-word story contest. Writers who can boil down a mystery into a half-dozen words are encouraged to enter the fourth annual Six-Word Mystery Contest...
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Interview of Donna Miscolta by Xánath Caraza
Interview of Donna Miscolta by Xánath Caraza Donna Miscolta’s third book of fiction Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, about lessons a young Mexican American girl learns in a world that favors neither...
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In Plague-time
Pre-Need Estate Sale Michael Sedano Donut Dollies souvenir. Spec 4 Sedano squired around the Red Cross Girlswhen they came to entertain the front lines. He was envied by all the troops.I have been...
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Salinas de Alba Award for Latino Children’s Literature
Arte Público Press is accepting children’s book manuscripts to be considered for the Salinas de Alba Award for Latino Children’s Literature. The award seeks to address the need for more culturally...
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Prejudice, Discrimination, or Separation of the Familiar
I don’t believe in race, or racism: the belief one human is superior to another based on skin color. It even...
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Melinda PalacioThese two poems were published in Ana Castillo's zine La Tolteca 2.0 July 24, 2020. In future posts, I will feature more of my newer published poems that might have been overlooked...
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A Proud Chicano Is Called Back: Michael Augustine Olivas (June 12, 1932 –...
By Daniel A. Olivas[Note:On September 30, 2020, a funeral Mass was held at the Mission Basilica San Buenaventura in honor of my father who passed away after a long illness. The details of his...
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Watching the World Pass in Plague-Time: A Reading from When the Virus Came Calling. Covid-19 Strikes America. Poetry & Prose In Real Time From the Outset, Ed. Thelma T. Reyna, Golden Foothills...
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13th Street #1: Battle of the Bad-Breath Bats
Written by David Bowles Illustrated by Shane Clester *Grade Level : 1 - 5*Paperback : 96 pages*ISBN-10 : 0062947796*ISBN-13 : 978-0062947796*Publisher : HarperCollins; Illustrated Edition...
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Chicanonautica: Mexican Gothic Rising
by Ernest HoganLet’s take some time to praise the most successful Latin (let’s also leave out any controversial suffixes for the moment) writer of the current generation. Her name is Silvia...
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New Literature
Presenting a quartet of new books dealing with Latino identity and lessons for a rewarding life, as well as an "autobiographical novel that cauterizes pain," and a "beautiful, disturbing yet hopeful”...
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