Life Returns To New Normal: Futuro Pasado At Plaza de la Raza
Futuro Pasado | a two person exhibition by Emilia Cruz and Rick Ortega Direct questions or reserve a free ticket by clicking link above, or be free to call (323)223-2475 or e-mail...
View ArticleSing with Me: The Story of Selena Quintanilla
Written by Diana LópezIllustrated by Teresa Martinez *Publisher : Dial Books *Language : English and Spanish*Hardcover : 32 pages*ISBN-10 : 0593110951*ISBN-13 : 978-0593110959 An...
View ArticleDanny Trejo's Journey from the Cave
The role of a lifetime: the hero's journey Actor, businessman, and drug counselor, Danny Trejo bares his soul in...
View ArticleLatinx Poetry Chapbook Contest
Announcement Gunpowder Press invites Latinx poets who are current residents of California (age 18+) to submit to the first Gunpowder Latinx Poetry Chapbook contest. Poems may be submitted in English...
View ArticleNo more WAITING
By Daniel A. Olivas“What harm have you done to them? You are as much of this country as you are of México. But you are not home in either place. Ni de aquí, ni de allá.”...
View ArticleDon Rudy, QEPD. 25 Pieces of a Chicano's Lenseye
Rudolfo Anaya, Presente! 25 Pieces of a Chicano's Lenseye: Gallery for Plague-time Chicano Garden Photography By Michael V. Sedano At The Huntington Library Click for Details I can’t imagine anyone...
View ArticleSalinas de Alba Award for Latino Children’s Literature
Houston, TX— Generations of Hispanic children in US schools had to do without books reflecting their culture and heritage. In 2019, according to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, only 225 of the...
View ArticleChicanonautica: Forgetting the Alamo
by Ernest HoganThe controversy is already blazing around Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Mythby Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. A virtual event tour was canceled...
View ArticleWhat Chicano Music Means to Me
Today on La Bloga I'm pleased to present a short poem about Chicano music written by a Chicano music expert -- Pocho Joe, host and curator of the award-winning and immensely popular radio show La Raza...
View Article'Perchada estás / Perching'
Perchada estás / Perching Like a composer, Xánath Caraza calls on her senses to compose a symphony of language and sound to create a pastoral wonderland of poems. Each poem is a landscape of its own,...
View ArticleOracy Month: 100K Getting Oral Out Loud
Your Best Two Minutes Michael Sedano When U.S. national leadership scoffed the impending pandemic was a political ploy, that failed leadership sent the nation headlong into a perversely widening gyre...
View ArticleSalvadoran Words and Reading of ABC El Salvador
These are Salvadoran words. Do you know the meanings? cheropringarvejigaguindachuña pisto cipote chucho huacal Thank you Luna's Press for letting us use your books.Gracias Luna's Press Books por...
View ArticleThe Covid Cha Cha
Melinda Palacio The dog days of summer ushered in two steps backwards in the pandemic. In the city of Santa Barbara, the Covid Cha Cha means many official Fiesta events have been cancelled. The...
View ArticleIs September 11th a Laughing Matter? The Graphic Novel “United States of...
United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel, a geopolitical tragicomedy, depicts the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11thas the fall of the American empire. Puerto Rican author Giannina...
View ArticleAugusto al Gusto: Reading Your Stuff Aloud, Oracy Month
One In A Hundred-Thousand: Your Best 2 MinutesMichael SedanoEvery year for eleven years now, poetry has been the motive of 100,000 people focused on themes like peace, justice, sustainability. La Bloga...
View ArticleChola Salvation
By Estella GonzalezISBN: 978-1-55885-914-2Bind: Trade PaperbackPages: 200 Chicana writer’s debut story collection unveils the lives of her Mexican-American community. In the title story of this...
View ArticleChicanonautica: HighAztechization
by Ernest HoganI was not trying to predict the future when I wrote High Aztech. I was just trying to make sense out of the insane developments I saw in the world around me. Now, over thirty years...
View ArticleChapter One
Presenting Chapter One of my latest novel Angels in the Wind. The book is available in paperback, Kindle and Nook. ----------------------------Angels in the WindChapter One©2021 by Manuel Ramos “You...
View ArticleCorta la piel de Xánath Caraza, una guía que abriga al espíritu y atiza la...
Corta la piel de Xánath Caraza, una guía que abriga al espíritu y atiza la flama creativa.Por Álvaro Torres-Calderón Haber leído Corta la piel de Xánath Caraza es reflexionar sobre el sentido de la...
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