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_Tejerás el destino, You Wil Weave Destiny_ de Xánath Caraza
_Tejerás el destino, You Wil Weave Destiny_ de Xánath Caraza Tejerás el destino, You Will Weave Destiny será publicado de manera bilingüe el 14 de febrero de este 2024 por la casa editorial FlowerSong...
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Caregiver's Permanent Respite: Untrapping Memories
Road Trip to Liberate A PastMichael Sedano My wife died a year ago, five years after we were hit with the diagnosis, Dementia of the Alzheimer's type. February fourth marked the one year commemoration...
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2024 Tomás Rivera Book Award Winners
Texas State University College of Education created The Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award in 1995 to honor authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican...
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Poetry Passages Puts Poetry on Santa Barbara Buses
Melinda Palacio * A version of this Poetry Connection Column originally appeared in the Santa Barbara IndependentOne of the notable connections I’ve made as Poet Laureate is with Lea (pronounced Lee)...
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The Maryland Writers' Association with guest author, Daniel A. Olivas, to...
This virtual event is open to everyone, not just members of the Maryland Writers' Association, so join us! It should be great fun. And I will also read from my most recent collection, How to Date a...
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Guest Review: Carmen Calatayud Reviews "the eaters of flowers"
the eaters of flowersby ire’ne lara silvaISBN 979-8-9879541-2-6Saddle Road Press, January 2024 Book Review by Carmen Calatayud If a book of poems can be a love song to grief, then the eaters of...
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BILINGÜE, SUPERHÉROE / BILINGUAL, SUPERHERO
By Jorge ArguetaIllustrations by Elizabeth Gómez SBN: 978-1-55885-988-3Publication Date: May 31, 2024Format: HardcoverPages: 32Imprint: Piñata BooksAges: 4-8 Children’s picture book highlights the fun...
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Chicanonautica: Zooming into the Mex Files
by Ernest HoganI’ve been a fan of Guillermo Gómez-Peña, La Pocha Nostra, and his radio program the Mex Filesfor a long time. He’s also a fan of my work. He and his wife Balitronica were instrumental in...
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New Books - Early Spring
Highlighting a handful of new books coming your way: fiction, memoir, poetry, and a surprise from a master.___________________________________ Yaguareté WhiteDiego BaezUniversity of Arizona Press...
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El Día Internacional de la Mujer de 2024 por Xánath Caraza
El Día Internacional de la Mujer de 2024 por Xánath Caraza El Mes de la Historia de la Mujer se celebra cada año en marzo. Cada 8 de marzo se destaca esta fecha como el Día Internacional de la Mujer...
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Weekend of Arte and Poetry: Chicanarte Blossoms Again
Wondrous Weekend of Arte: Poetry and Paintings and PeopleMichael Sedano The penultimate week of February 2024 arrives with a sense winding down the interminable drag of the GOPlague. Around here,...
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IT FEELS LIKE FAMILY / SE SIENTE COMO FAMILIA
By Diane de AndaIllustrations by Roberta Collier-Morales ISBN: 978-1-55885-990-6Publication Date: May 31, 2024Format: HardcoverPages: 32Imprint: Piñata BooksAges: 5-9 This bilingual picture book...
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Elysian Fields in the Suburbs
Palisades Park, Santa Monica, painting by Daniel Alonzo I was about ten years old, so it must have been...
View ArticleFeaturing Lynne Thompson, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Emerita (2021-2022)
Melinda Palacio, City of Santa Barbara Poet Laureate (an earlier version of this column was published in the Santa Barbara Independent)A poetry connection I’ve made over the years is with Lynne...
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It's alive! "Chicano Frankenstein" will be launched at Vroman's Bookstore on...
La Bloga friends, I wanted to let you know that Vroman’s Bookstore will be hosting the book launch for my forthcoming novel, Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press), on March 6, 7:00 p.m. Here is...
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Four Laureates Here: Can You Too?
Four Laureates Shine in Altadena SpotlightMichael SedanoI saw the poster and patted myself on the back for having the good sense to be living in Altadena, California where in a few days I'd get to hear...
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2024-2025 Tejas Star List
https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/tejas-star/current-list/ The Tejas Star Reading List (TSRL) provides a recommended reading list to encourage children ages 5-12 to explore multicultural...
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Chicanonautica: Dispatches from Artsy-Fartsy Cowboy Land
by Ernest Hogan Lately, the news gives me déjà vû. I feel like I’ve been whisked back in time, once again reading the new wave spec fic of my adolescence in the early Seventies, when a man named Nixon...
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The Spirit of 76
AI generated images. Tech magic. Welcome to the future? Harbingers of the apocalypse?A bit of self-reflection on the occasion of an anniversary.I had a birthday this week, my 76th. I celebrated with a...
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