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LitFest Pasadena 2022: April 30 to May 14
The 10th Anniversary of LitFest Pasadena 2022 embraces a dynamic new format, expanding locations as well as returning to known favorites. LitFest Pasadena brings acclaimed authors and new voices...
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LitFest Pasadena- Wednesday, May 4
From: https://litfestpasadena.orgThe 10th Anniversary of LitFest Pasadena 2022 embraces a dynamic new format, expanding locations as well as returning to known favorites. LitFest Pasadena brings...
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Chicanonautica: The Hazards of Writing While Chicano
by Ernest HoganI finally got to the end of Zyx; Or, Bring Me the Brain of Victor Theremin. I’m not finished -- there’s still a lot of brutal pick&shovel editing to do. Scenes will have to be...
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Opening Lines From Denver Noir
If you’ve read any of my recent posts for La Bloga you know that I have a short story in the just-published (May 3) anthology Denver Noir, and that I think this book features some excellent examples of...
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Los Poemas
Los PoemasXánath Caraza Como parte del Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival 2022, conduje un taller de poesía el sábado 30 de abril. El taller se hizo de manera híbrida con audiencia...
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Mother's Day 2022
Michael Sedano Everyone in the world has a mother. Many of us know the joy of having the World's Best Mother. I know, some people didn't get to be mothered by the idealized vision of that poem by José...
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2022 Américas Book Award Winners
The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English...
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Take a Trip to Ventura Next Weekend
Melinda Palacio I have the honor of appearing in Margaret García’s show at the Ventura County Museum. When she painted my portrait for my poetry book, How Fire Is a Story, Waiting, I had no idea the...
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Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore’s 17th Annual Celebrating Words...
All are invited to Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore’s 17th annual Celebrating Words Festival on May 21. The Festival provides an accessible, brave, and dynamic space that encourages...
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I'm confessing that I lived, and loved, and made music.
Review: Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara. Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer. Berkeley: UCPress, 2018.Michael SedanoIt’s 1974, a Mexican American musician whose Chicano Studies classes have...
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Visitas inesperadas
Por Ariadna Sánchez Hernández Ariadna Sánchez Hernández nació en la tierra “donde abunda el ejote”, Ejutla de Crespo, Oaxaca. Los versos empapados de emociones encuentran un hogar en las páginas de...
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Chicanonautica: Zooming for El Porvenir, ¡Ya!
by Ernest Hogan Of course, I took part in the book launch for El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl.@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0;...
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New Books for Summer
I'm writing this post on May 19, 2022. The temperature in Denver reached the high 80s today. Although it was only Thursday, it was a day for long hikes, picnics, gardening, cold beer and fried...
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Sobre _Dead Woman City_ por Xánath Caraza
Sobre Dead Woman City por Xánath Caraza Dead Woman City de Esther Garcia fue publicado por FlowerSong Press en 2021.Las páginas de Dead Woman City donde Esther García plasma el doloroso ritmo de la...
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Cosecha Calabasas: Zucchini Abundance & the Gluten-free Chicano
Zucchini Abundance: Recipes For Gluten-free DiningMichael Sedano, The Gluten-free ChicanoHealing comes on its own schedule. This year, after three years disability, I had functional shoulders. I...
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VIENTO, VIENTITO / WIND, LITTLE WIND
By Jorge ArguetaIllustrations by Felipe Ugalde Alcántara ISBN: 978-1-55885-945-6Publication Date: May 31, 2022Format: HardcoverPages: 32Imprint: Piñata BooksAges: 5-10 This trilingual picture...
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After Great Pain -- Healing through Literature
Life's Enigma, the Depths of Grief I don’t need to describe “great pain”, since each of us has experienced it,...
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Melinda PalacioThe people of Uvalde are my people. My mother was born in Del Rio, a town just over an hour away from Uvalde at the end of the corridor between San Antonio and the last town before...
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There's Been a Shooting
By Daniel A. OlivasYour day is chugging along pretty well. You got your nine-year-old son to camp on time and now you click away on your computer drafting an opposition to a motion for a new trial in...
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