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A Walk in the Park
Melinda PalacioThis weekend in New Orleans Spanish lovers and Francophiles will vie for attention during the El Encierro Festival, the running of the roller derby bulls (now a whole weekend plus worth...
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My Queer Aversion to Marriage
Olga García EcheverríaThe best wedding I ever attended was in Guadalajara, where the Chicana bride and Mexican groom arrived at a quaint colonial-styled church on a horse-drawn carriage, like in those...
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Three questions for Robert Paul Moreira, editor of "¡Arriba Baseball!: A...
Robert Paul Moreira is an English Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas-San Antonio researching alterity and constructed identities in sports fiction, films, and performance. His fiction,...
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Being Brown, Being Cereus, On-line Floricanto
The First Time You Were BrownMichael Sedano“You can’t legislate morality,” racists argued. The nation answered, “No, but you can legislate integration.”How do you legislate open-minded jurors? Six...
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L4LL Latino Children's Summer Reading Program!
http://www.latinas4latinolit.orgLatinas 4 Latino Literature is having a Summer Reading Program. Many families around the world are having fun reading great children's books. They invited me to create...
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Chicanonautica: A Chicano Poet’s Odyssey
by Ernest HoganReyes Cárdenas: Chicano Poet 1970-2010 ain’t your ordinary poetry collection. L.A. David’s cover and illustrations hint at that. Reyes Cárdenas’ poems flow like magnetic fields of...
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Kitchen Art - Su Teatro Summer Events - Velásquez Poem - New Books
Kitchen Art In 2012, Flo talked with Denver artist Daniel Luna about the possibility of creating art on everyday furniture. Given some of Daniel's themes, his playful use of color and humor, and his...
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La frontera - our new war zone
So-called immigration reform = real militarizationOver at LatinoPOV.com, Jimmy Franco Sr. did an analysis of Senate Bill 774, the so-called immigration reform bill. He said, “Characterized as primarily...
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Interview with Xánath Caraza on her poetry and fiction: _Conjuro_ & _Lo que...
_Conjuro_ (Mammoth Publications, 2012)Amelia M.L. Montes: Saludos Xánath! Muchisimas gracias for being with La Bloga today. Most importantly, felicidades on your recent success with your book of...
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La Guaca
A Mexican FableBy Daniel A. OlivasThere was a man who owned the finest restaurant in the village. Though no name adorned the establishment, the villagers dubbed it La Guaca. The man, as well, had no...
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Alexie's Public Blasphemy. On-line Floricanto Penultimate of July.
Review: Sherman Alexie. Blasphemy. NY: Grove, 2012.ISBN 9780802120397 : 0802120393Michael SedanoOne of the book groups I belong to has a rule: no short fiction collections. The prejudice grows in part...
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Pink Fire Trucks / Los Camiones de Bomberos de Color Rosado
Written by Gladys Elizabeth BarbieryIllustrated by Lina SafarGirls can be firefighters too!Spirited Gladys Elizabeth is at it again. It’s CAREER DAY at school and Gladys Elizabeth boldly announces that...
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Guest Columnist: Sheryl Luna
In the introduction of Brazos, Carry Me (Kórima Press, 2013) by Pablo Miguel Martinez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba writes, “Pain is a constant in these poems, but so is wonder, rendered in sharp lines and...
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Mario Acevedo - Happy Birthday, Rocky
Mario Acevedo's New Book, Good Money Gone La Bloga friend Mario Acevedo writes the best-selling Felix Gomez detective-vampire series (five novels, so far.) Mario’s debut novel, The Nymphos of Rocky...
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Chicano series. Chicano arte. Insane cuts to all the arts.
East Los High, groundbreaking new seriesEvangeline Ordaz puts the 'East Los' In East Los High as lead writer/producer for the groundbreaking new series just out on Hulu.East Los High is not your...
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Dancing with the Mermaid of Yesteryear
Olga García Echeverría "For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." --Kahlil Gibran Last...
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Two Poems for Monday
By Daniel A. Olivas"Letters to Norco"My letters to Norcokept you sane you said.Three years there forselling meth. But Iwrote to you so youwouldn't forget me.And you wrote back.Beautiful and sad...
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Review: Secrets of Old Blood Sizzles. Mailbag. July's Fifth On-line Floricanto
Review: Sandra Ramos O'Briant. The Sandoval Sisters' Secret of Old Blood. Los Angeles: La Gente Press, 2012. ISBN-13: 9780615615103Michael SedanoThere’s a reason folks keep “to-be-read” stacks of...
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Chancla The Secret of La Chancla Mexican Mom And Her Chancla El Secreto de La Chancla
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Chicanonautica: Storm Clouds Over Arizona
by Ernest HoganThe summer rain finally hit Arizona. Monstrous clouds expanded across the sky, then blasted down fat shafts of rain and slashes of lightning. It got cooler -- down into the low hundreds...
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