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My Best 2 Minutes: KMart Farewell
Oracy Month: Here's HowMichael SedanoTwo Tuesdays past, La Bloga-Tuesday declared our plan to join this year's observance of 100,000 Poets For Change by means of anyone who has the ganas to record...
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Land of the Cranes - La tierra de las grullas
By Aida Salazar Publisher : Scholastic Press; Illustrated edition Language : EnglishHardcover : 256 pagesISBN-10 : 1338343807ISBN-13 : 978-1338343809Reading age : 8 - 12...
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Remembering the Past While Witnessing the Present
"Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply,...
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Boosters and the Covid Reboot
Melinda Palacio While people are deciding whether or not to get a vaccine, I’ve not only received both Moderna shots, but a booster to boot. I’ve seen too many people fall deathly ill with COVID. I...
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Birthing a New Book
The typewriter owned by Michael Augustine OlivasOn Sunday, received my copy editor's redline to my manuscript, How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories(University of Nevada Press),...
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Novelist's Poetry Estreno. In Season: Boatyard Chile Verde
Editor's Note:La Bloga teamed with Latinopia in 2019 to spotlight one of the finest writers of Chicano United States fiction, Alejandro Morales. Here's a link to La Bloga's review of Morales' book on...
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Letters from Cuba- Cartas s Cuba
By Ruth Behar Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a young Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, while she works to rescue the rest of her family The...
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Chicanonautica: Extra-Fiction Contest Emerging in 2021
by Ernest Hogan In the dreaded year of 2020, the Extra-Fiction Contest, a production of Somos en escrito, The Latino Literary Online Magazine and publisher, did not happen. It was canceled, a victim of...
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CALMA
The Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors, otherwise known as CALMA, was officially launched on October 15th, 2020. CALMA's Vision is to "celebrate, promote and preserve the written words of...
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Experiencia de un viaje íntimo, melódico y cautivador en ‘Ejercicio en la...
Experiencia de un viaje íntimo, melódico y cautivador en ‘Ejercicio en la oscuridad’de Xánath Caraza por Álvaro Torres-Calderón Leer el poemario fue un viaje cautivador de imágenes poderosas en los que...
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Read and Listen: Aftermath of August 29, 1970, Esteban Torres Remembers
From Chapter Nine: The Movimiento.The Autobiography of Esteban Torres As Told To Michael Sedano Michael SedanoThere’s a reason Esteban Torres remains el movimiento’s unsung hero: no one’s sung his...
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Bright Star - Lucero
By Yuyi Morales Publisher: Neal Porter Books (September 7, 2021)Language: EnglishHardcover: 40 pagesISBN-10: 0823443280ISBN-13: 978-0823443284 From the creator of the New York Times...
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Born to Suffer
Los Unidos, circa 1940, Connie Saenz, bottom row, third from right We talk to family...
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Melinda PalacioIda and Delta, two odd bedfellows wreaked havoc in a beloved city. Earlier, before hurricane Ida was on track to make landfall in New Orleans, Covid and the Delta Variant had kept us...
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The Brown Bomber
In Memory of Ernest Alderete By Daniel A. OlivasPop’s chestnut skin glistened, tight and strong as he dove into Venice Beach’s foamy waves and then shot up like a mortar and yelled, “I’m the Brown...
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Publish Or Perish: Remembering History
Review: Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History: Biography, Nationhood, and GlobalismMichael Sedano One might be forgiven thinking of Roberto Cantu only as the remarkable engineer who...
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Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
Written by Sandra CisnerosTranslated by Liliana Valenzuela Publisher : Vintage; Bilingual editionLanguage : English, SpanishPaperback : 128 pagesISBN-10 : 0593313666ISBN-13 : ...
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Of Speculative Fiction, Dreamers, Rumors, Cannibalism, and Human Sacrifice
by Ernest HoganSo finally, it’s officially released, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology edited by Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael Garcia, with a preface by...
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The Flashiest Flash Fiction
The Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America (RMMWA) has sponsored a popular six-word mystery contest for five years. Hundreds of entries from around the U.S. and several other countries demonstrate...
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Mexican American Poets outside Aztlan Read in Honor of Diez y Seis
Mexican American Poets outside Aztlan Read in Honor of Diez y Seis MeXicanos 2070 is a non-profit organization committed to reclaim and enrich our indigenous Mexican American culture through a...
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