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What Nice Santas gave this year
What did you get for Xmas? I got a hi-tech ergo chair that will delay the gout and lumbar damage that comes from too many hours on the computer. I also got chingos of stuff in my stockings. Here's a...
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And the 2013 Best Homemade Mexican Tamal Award Goes To…
Olga García EcheverríaThere’s nothing quite as satisfying as unwrapping and gorging on steaming tamales on Christmas Eve. Toasting them on a hot comal or frying them in a cazuela the following days is...
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Puebla de los Ángeles
By Xánath CarazaFor this occasion, I am excited to share with everyone the cover of my new chapbook, Noche de colibríes: Ekphrastic Poems (pandora lobo estepario Press, 2014), a recap about my poetry...
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New Year's Eve Day Reflections. Best Poems of 2013.
Twenty-thirteen Day Three Hundred Sixty-fiveMichael SedanoSunday through Saturday, La Bloga arrives daily on your virtual driveway with a ¡tlac! when you click that link bringing you here. Thank you...
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Books for los Reyes Magos
Feliz 2014. For families in Latin America, Christmas is not over yet. There is still another big celebration coming on January 6th, el día de los Reyes Magos. Enjoy these books with the little ones and...
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Los Reyes Magos de Oriente
Review by Ariadna SánchezFeliz Año Nuevo Bloga readers!Today, I have the honor to present to you the Oaxacan Barefoot Basketball Champions. These children are from the Indigenous Triqui region of...
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Chicanonautica: A Chicanonaut in 2013, A.D.
by Ernest HoganThe year 2013 was eventful for your humble Chicanonaut. It feels like I went way out there, was weightless, but now have reentered, splashed down, and am adjusting to Earth-normal...
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Remembering 2013 on Day Three of 2014
2014 Is Year Ten of La Bloga. Happy New Year!Towards the end of 2013, my one goal was don't get sick. I packed so many events in my schedule that I wanted to finish the year by following through every...
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Kathleen Alcalá on latinos/SciFi. 2 opps for novels and writing samples
Three chingón lit pieces today, including opportunities for submitting your novel manuscript or writing. First, Kathleen Alcalá provides her sober and challenging views about latinos entering the world...
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Twisting & Shouting Afro-Latino Musica
Reporting from “Twist & Shout” in Denver, Colorado—one of the few independent record stores in the U.S. If you’re looking for new music to discover, vinyl records, CDs, and you're in Denver --...
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Remembering José Montoya
Daniel Olivas is feeling under the weather so I'm posting in his place with an announcement about an upcoming memorial event for the celebrated Chicano poet José Montoya, and a poem written in his...
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Gluten-free Cranberry Bread. One Million Poetry Beads. On-line Floricanto.
Michael SedanoJanuary 2014 brings record cold to miserable swaths of the United States, Canada, and Europe as Hercules, the Atlantic storm that's bringing such misery, rages on.La Bloga sends warm...
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Maria had a little llama
Review by Ariadna SánchezMaria had a little llama,Little llama, little llama,Maria had a little llama,Its fleece was white as snow.This sounds great, don’t you think?Maria had a little llama is written...
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Darling
En su nuevo libro, Darling: A Spiritual Biography, el polémico ensayista Richard Rodríguez explora conceptos como la espiritualidad, religión y la orientación sexual. Darling recoge 10 provocadores...
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Major Exhibits at the National Museum of Mexican Art - Curandera at Museo de...
News this week of happenings at museums in Chicago and Denver - la cultura cura. Museum receptions are scheduled for the evening of January 16. Can you make it to both?Manuel...
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AW-Guy (Angry White Guy) villains
I throw this out especially to latino fiction writers as a suggestion, an idea for varying and deepening portrayals of living in America. I don't know the research or data on this, but it seems to me...
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A Room of Her Own: Memories of a 2013 Writing Retreat and Upcoming...
Olga García Echeverría 2014. It's a new year to envision, write, and submit. For women writers out there who are looking for "homes" for their unpublished poems, fiction, and creative non-fiction, I'd...
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Books Written in Stone
By Xánath CarazaSome of the most incredible books I’ve found around the world have been in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xian in China, on La Alhambra walls in Granada, Spain and in many of the...
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Bluebird Reading on a Football Sunday. Aural On-line Floricanto. Barrio...
SRO For Poetry at Avenue 50 Studio.Michael SedanoJessica Ceballos has every reason for ebullience when she stands at the lectern smiling back at a standing room only audience crowding into Avenue 50...
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Round is a Tortilla
Review by Ariadna SánchezApple pies have the shape of a circleStreet signs have the shape of a rectangleGrapes have the shape of an ovalTrash cans have the shape of a cylinderOh my, oh my! Our world is...
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