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Memorial Day 2023: Remember the Chicano Who Won WWII?
This column originally ran in September 2019. My father saw Europe through the gunsights of a .30 calibre machine gun. He fondly remembered a big house overlooking the arches on the beach of Etretat,...
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The Moonlit Vine- Claro de luna
By Elizabeth SantiagoIllustrations by Mckenzie Mayle Publisher: Lee & Low Books Hardcover: 368 pagesISBN-10: 1643795805ISBN-13: 978-1643795805 Fourteen-year-old Taína just learned that she is...
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Chicanonautica: Among the Aztecs on an Electric Air Yacht
by Ernest HoganI was hooked just reading the long, awkward title: Frank Reade Junior and His Electric Air Yacht; Or,The Great Inventor Among the Aztecs. Luis Senarens, the Cuban-American Jules Verne...
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A Pair of Summer Reads
These two upcoming books should get you started on your summer reading. One is the latest from the prolific, popular, and iconic Isabel Allende. The second is the highly praised and much anticipated...
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Anoche soñé con la niebla, Last Night I Dreamt about the Fog por Xánath Caraza
Anoche soñé con la niebla por Xánath Caraza Anoche soñé con la niebla.Se me metió en la memoria.Atravesó mis recuerdosllenándolos de luciérnagas rojas.Se me acercaron mariposas azulesEspíritus de...
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Cada Mundo Un Close-up
Michael SedanoCreatures with wings deserve to be seen in the air. Creatures with wings seen in the air deserve to be magnified to suitable size for visual satisfaction. Turning that pair of theories...
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2023 Américas Award
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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Cruising with Davy Jones
by Daniel Cano A truly nice person It was 1969. I had my army discharge, and I was free at last. Some friends and...
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Poetry At LA Plaza: Legends Get Made This Way
Michael SedanoLuis J. Rodriguez beams proudly, looking across the museum meeting room where dozens of eager faces know what kind of work Rodriguez’ Tia Chucha Press publishes: two books a year, poetry...
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I Can Be...Me!
By Lesléa NewmanIllustrated by Maya Gonzalez Publisher: Lee & Low Books Language: EnglishHardcover: 32 pagesISBN-10: 1643792059ISBN-13: 978-1643792057 From bestselling author Lesléa Newman — a...
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Chicanonautica: Report on Papí Sci-Fi’s Ancient Chicano Sci-Fi Wisdom
by Ernest Hogan The Palabras del Pueblo Writing Workshop is over. I taught Papí Sci-Fi’s Ancient Chicano Sci-Fi Wisdom. It caught me by surprise. I learned things, as I hoped. It’s taking me a while to...
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Family Affairs
How about a trio of new books dealing with the social relationship that can be life-giving and, often, lifesaving, painful, even brutal, simple and basic, complex and irrational? Talking about family....
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Papantla y El Tajín por Xánath Caraza
Papantla y El Tajín por Xánath Caraza Papantla de Olearte en el estado de Veracruz, México es una joya que si alguna vez puede visitar no se arrepentirán. Es la ciudad más cercana a la zona...
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2023 Pura Belpré Celebración
Sunday, June 25, 20231:00-4:00 PM Palmer House HiltonRed Lacquer Room 17 East Monroe StreetChicago, IL 60603 Pura Belpré Awards honoring Latinx writers and illustrators whose children's and young...
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A Passage in Time, Oh Granada
What happened inside these walls? I arrived in Madrid in 1977, August, and hot, well over 100 degrees each...
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Coming Full Circle in Twenty Years of Poetry
Melinda Palacio, Santa Barbara Poet LaureateThis column was first published in the Santa Barbara Independent.Photo by Michael Sedano The Santa Barbara Writers Conference began last Sunday. The...
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Review: Ana Castillo, Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home
Michael SedanoIt’s “stories,” the subtitle of Ana Castillo’s recently published Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home. The prolific author’s work of late has ranged from poem to memoir to novel to drawing and...
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel Paperback
By Meg Medina Illustrated by Mel Valentine Vargas Publisher: Candlewick (September 5, 2023)Language: EnglishHardcover: 288 pagesISBN-10: 1536224774ISBN-13: 978-1536224771 Newbery Medalist Meg...
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Chicanonautica: Quetzalcoatl Attacks
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