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Pandemic Neighbors and Porch Concerts
Melinda PalacioThe world is halfway open. Let’s hope the honor system doesn’t backfire and force us into another round of lockdowns. Signs in New Orleans no longer insists on people wearing masks for...
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A New Life for My 2011 Novel, The Book of Want
By Daniel A. OlivasIn 2011, the University of Arizona Press published my novel, The Book of Want. The novel centered on Conchita, a beautiful, single woman of a certain age, who sees nothing wrong with...
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Guest Review: Mowing Leaves Of Grass.
Guest Review: There Is Power In The Naming. On Matt Sedillo’s Mowing Leaves Of Grass.Theresa MontañoMatt Sedillo's, Mowing Leaves of Grass, should be a required reading for every student taking a...
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Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the...
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company; Bilingual edition Language : English, SpanishHardcover : 96 pagesISBN-10 : 1523513489ISBN-13 : 978-1523513482 The moving stories of children in migration—in...
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Chicanonautica: Mexico City in Shades of Noir
by Ernest HoganSilvia Moreno-Garcia has all my respect. She is one of the most successful Latina writers of her generation. Her knockout novel Mexican Gothic was a New York Times bestseller, and is...
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Short Reviews - Unique Books
For some unknown reason I go through various phases of writing activity that last for a short time, then fade away at the command of the Fates or Casper the Friendly Ghost or whoever it is that...
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Junio, mes del orgullo LGBTQ+ por Xánath Caraza
Junio, mes del orgullo LGBTQ+ por Xánath Caraza Me gustaría celebrar junio, el mes del orgullo LGBTQ+, junto con el natalicio de Federico García Lorca, el 5 de junio de 1898. Cada año recuerdo a FGL...
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Sympathy for Devils: Murmuring Bees
Review: Sofía Segovia (Author), Simon Bruni (Translator). The Murmur of Bees. Seattle: Amazon Publishing, 2019. Isbn 9781542040501 (Print book)Michael SedanoDon’t get me wrong, I enjoyed reading...
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Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers
Written and Illustrated by Juliet Menéndez Publisher : Henry Holt and Co. Language : EnglishHardcover : 120 pagesISBN-10 : 125023462XISBN-13 : 978-1250234629Reading age : 8 - 12 yearsGrade level : 3 –...
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Curse of the Burs
The budding bur Each morning, I take my dogs out for a walk, sometimes it’s just in the neighborhood, other...
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Three Poems by Emma Trelles, SB Poet Laureate 2021
Emma TrellesThe city of Santa Barbara has appointed its first Latinx Poet Laureate, Emma Trelles. Born in Miami, she is the daughter...
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Angels in the Wind
This post is BSP (blatant self-promotion) for my upcoming novel. Forewarned is forearmed. I celebrate the publication of Angels in the Wind on May 20. I haven't yet seen the actual book but here's a...
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Three Poems by Emma Trelles, SB Poet Laureate 2021
Emma TrellesThe city of Santa Barbara has appointed its first Latinx Poet Laureate, Emma Trelles. Born in Miami, she is the daughter of Cuban immigrants and now calls Santa Barbara home, where she...
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Chuy’s Speech: “I want it to stop. No more cages, no more escaping, no more...
By Daniel A. OlivasIn my play, Waiting for Godínez, each night, immigration officials kidnap Jesús (aka Chuy) and throw him in a cage with the intent of deporting him. But each time, Jesús escapes and...
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MAMA LOVE: She's almost there. She's there.
Editor: Alzheimer’s Dementia is a terminal disease that takes its toll on the Personhood of someone living with the increasingly dismaying progressions of the disease. A family member, either a spouse...
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Merci Suárez Can't Dance
By Meg Medina Publisher : Candlewick Language : EnglishHardcover : 384 pagesISBN-10 : 0763690503ISBN-13 : 978-0763690502Reading age : 9 - 12 yearsGrade level : 4 – 7A Kirkus Reviews Most...
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Chicanonautica: And Now, a Blatant Act of Unashamed Self-Promotion . . .
by Ernest Hogan Yeah, here I go again. I know some folks think that a literary artiste should stay aloof in their assigned ivory tower (which is usually not ivory or a tower), but in my career, I’ve...
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I looked back to see if you were looking back at me.
La Bloga has floated in cyberspace since 2004, making this offspring of drunken conversations and naïve blind ambition "The world's longest-established Chicana Chicano, Latina Latino literary blog."...
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Guest Columnist: Father's Day With and Without
I Didn’t Celebrate Father’s Day While Growing UpJoe Navarro I am a father. Interestingly, my mother had three sons and no daughters, yet I have three wonderful daughters, but no sons. And, I have five...
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Poetry and the Summer Solstice by Xánath Caraza
Poetry and the Summer Solstice by Xánath Caraza The Summer Solstice starts today and there had to be poetry. As such, Po’Jazz, Playdate with Poetry and Jazz will have a Poetry and Music performance...
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