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Convo Between Artist and Author
The following is a random collection of notes that originated in a recent conversation. Don’t expect a conclusion, nor a cohesive narrative. These are notes, perhaps for something in the...
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Anillos de piedra y Quiahuiztlán por Xánath Caraza
Anillos de piedra y Quiahuiztlán por Xánath Caraza ¡Felicidades, mamá! Gracias por todo tu amor.Anillos de piedra Para la ciudad de Cempoala Señorío totonaca del sur.Ciudad de pirámides de plata.La de...
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Review: The Garden of Second Chances
Michael SedanoMona Alvarado Frazier. The Garden of Second Chances. Phoenix: Spark Press, 2023.When the van takes you away to jail you've lost your first chance to remain free. From this point in your...
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Still on a "Mandado" through the Westside
On a "mandado" in Santa Monica, painting by Daniel Alonzo I was about six years old when my uncle Yndalecio would...
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Boost Your Creativity with Collaboration
Melinda PalacioArtist Colleen Kelly*This Column originally appeared in the Santa Barbara IndependentLast month, I wrote about my twenty-year journey at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. What I...
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Masa for Tamales: Cinco Puntos
Michael SedanoQuince libras de masa preparada, I told her. She nodded, turned, walked to the mixer and began preparando my masa. I wait.Cinco Puntos. Thirty minute detour, plus a stop at a panaderia...
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Madre Tierra/ Mother Earth series
Books written by Jorge ArguetaIllustrated by Felipe Ugalde AlcántaraPublished by Arte Público Press/ Piñata BooksAGUA, AGÜITA / WATER, LITTLE WATER With stunningly beautiful illustrations by Felipe...
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Chicanonautica: Beyond the Fourth of July in Aztlán
by Ernest HoganMy wife, Emily Devenport, had to work on July 4th, which scientists are saying was the hottest day on this planet since people started keeping records. I was alone that night, expecting...
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Hall of Famer Lalo Delgado -- CALMA Anthology Fund Raiser
The good news today includes the announcement from the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame that Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado has been selected for induction into the Hall of Fame as one of the Legacy recipients...
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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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_Lágrima Roja_ en Atenas por Natasa Lambrou
_Lágrima Roja_ en Atenas por Natasa Lambrou El lunes 3 de julio a las 7 de la tarde se presentó el poemario Lágrima Roja de Xánath Caraza en Iliupolis, un barrio de Atenas, Grecia. El evento fue en un...
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Non-aristotlelian Canon
Michael SedanoI languished through the summer of 1969, broke, optimistic, and bored. But I can't show you pictures because, even at PX prices, I couldn't afford a camera. A married G.I. in that time, I...
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Fresh Juice- Jugo Fresco
Written and illustrated by Robert Liu-Trujillo Publisher: Lee & Low Books (July 25, 2023)Language: EnglishHardcover: 32 pagesISBN-10: 1643791133ISBN-13: 978-1643791135 What makes a great juice...
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The Winner
Good Gardening Junior worked in the movie studios for about ten years. The third year, he bought a new Lincoln...
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Have You Ever Wished for a Second Chance?
Melinda PalacioWe can't get enough of this book. Sedano also offered a review two weeks ago. Mona Alvarado Frazier has spun a tale you won’t want to put down in The Garden of Second Chances. You will...
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NDE, Not. It Was Real
Michael SedanoBack in July 2014, I died.The Ancestors sent me back. I was just about to cross a gulf of blackness to take a place in the cave where familia from time immemorial sat mutely, when I...
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MACONDISTA READINGS 2023
From macondowriters.com JOIN US FOR THREE NIGHTS OF MACONDISTA READINGS. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The Macondo Writers Workshop is an association of socially-engaged writers working to advance...
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Chicanonautica: Sheriffs Amok
by Ernest HoganI was sure that, by now, Arizona would be ablaze with weird politics of concern to the La Bloga audience, but I was wrong. It’s kinda quiet. A certain ex-president seems to be losing his...
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The Ballad of The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz
I published my first novel in July,1993. That's right, thirty years ago. The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz appeared thanks to a few people at St. Martin's Press who saw something in my tale of a Chicano...
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Entrevista a Denise Castillo por Xánath Caraza
Entrevista a Denise Castillo por Xánath Caraza Denise Castillo is a first-generation Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Castillo received her B.A. from the...
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