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Presentación de _Tejerás el destino_ y _Corazón de agua_ durante el mes de la...
Presentación de _Tejerás el destino_ y _Corazón de agua_ durante el mes de la poesía en la ciudad de Nueva York por Xánath Caraza El pasado 18 y 20 de abril de este año, como parte del mes de la...
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Boyle Heights Mural Honors Gloria Molina
Visit to a Work-in-ProgressMichael SedanoMargaret Garcia and Arthur Carrillo work in the a.m. coolness.The artists paint on the shaded wall quickly, racing the sun and summer heat that will bring the...
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Churro Stand/ El carrito de churros
By Karina N. González.Illustrated by Krystal Quiles. Publisher: Abrams Books for Young ReadersLanguage: EnglishHardcover: 32 pagesISBN-10: 1951836952ISBN-13: 978-1951836955 From award-winning...
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Children of Immigrants
University High School, Los Unidos, West Los Angeles, 1940s My mother and her older siblings were the children of...
View ArticlePoetry Connection: Connecting with Poets of Different Generations
Melinda Palacio Earlier this month, David Starkey, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate from 2009-2011, hosted his semi-annual poetry series at the Goleta Valley Library August 4. Given that it was the last day...
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Peeling Away Decades of Whitewashing Our History: On the Writing of the...
A guest essay by Désirée ZamoranoWhen I wrote The Amado Women it was in part to address the pervasive misrepresentation of my demographic, Mexican American women, Latinas, who are so poorly portrayed...
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Review: Dispossessed, History With Happy Ending
Review: Désirée Zamorano. Dispossessed. RIZE Press, 2024. ISBN (pbk) 978-1-960018-43-4Michael Sedano People not yet familiar with the historical foundation of the action in Désirée Zamorano's...
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Mercedes Sosa: Voice of the People- Mercedes Sosa: La voz del pueblo
Written and Illustrated by Aixa Pérez-PradoPublisher: Lee & Low Books; Standard Edition (September 17, 2024)Hardcover: 40 pagesISBN-10: 0892394706ISBN-13: 978-0892394708A stirring picture book...
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Chicanonautica: Weirdo Summer Update
by Ernest Hogan So, we’ve got a summer of change, a helluvalot of it. I can’t keep up with it. A clever wisecrack about the political situation becomes obsolete by the time I post it. The Latinoid is...
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Bitter Sweet Memory in a Paragraph
My father was a fisherman, a good one, and he took me with him on one of his camping trips to Lake of the Clouds in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, near Westcliffe. I was a kid, still carrying baby...
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Diseño de modas: “Colección Althinea Dicea” de Alfredo Rifer
Diseño de modas: “Colección Althinea Dicea” de Alfredo RiferXánath CarazaAlfredo Rifer es el creador de la colección “Althinea Dicea” que tuve la suerte de presenciar cuando recientemente pasé casi...
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Building A Poetry Community: Laureates and Leaders
Building A Poetry CommunityMichael Sedano A frustrated Texas poet, on social media, asks "Why is poetry so unpopular?" It might be that poetry is poorly taught and misunderstood, he guesses. The answer...
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Mi Casa Is My Home
Written by Laurenne Sala and illustrated by Zara González Hoang.Publisher: Candlewick Language: EnglishHardcover: 32 pagesISBN-10: 1536209430ISBN-13: 978-1536209433Reading age: 3 - 7 yearsGrade...
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In Gratitude: A Labor Day Story and a Lesson Learned
Working Man Blues As Labor Day nears, I am reaching into the vault, my own personal time capsule, for an essay...
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Poetry Connection: Nature, Art, and Poetry in Santa Barbara
The Poet's Perch, Santa Barbara Botanic GardenMelinda Palacio, Santa Barbara Poet LaureateEvery year, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden hosts an open call for “Casitas” to be built in their backcountry,...
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Labor (of Love) Day: Special Edition
The Things We Missedmichael sedanoLast week, La Bloga-Tuesday shared a foto essay of a pair of extraordinary events. Any community can expand its literary horizons while discovering a hidden well of...
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Voices of the Future: Powerful Women At the Forefront in Arte and Politics
Casa 0101 and Margaret Garcia Unveil A National Treasure Honoring Gloria MolinaMichael SedanoWhen La Bloga-Tuesday visited the work-in-progress mural (link) dedicated to shero Gloria Molina, the beauty...
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Autores Hispanos de Los Ángeles en LéaLA
La Feria del Libro en Español y Festival Literario LéaLA 2024 regresa este verano en uno de los lugares más emblemáticos de Los Ángeles, LA Plaza de la Cultura y las Artes. Durante cuatro días...
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Chicanonautica: Ernesto in Latinopia, Again
by Ernest HoganSuddenly, the phone rang. The antediluvian land line next to the dilapidated Rolodex that still has contact info for Ben Bova, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, among others living and dead...
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Pancho Villa and Six Words
This week La Bloga features two of our favorite things: A brand new book about Pancho Villa, one of our favorite heroes, written by one of our favorite authors; and the annual Six-Word Mystery Contest...
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