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Broken in New Orleans
Aligator at Avery IslandWhat started out as an outing to one of my favorite gatherings, the Women's National Book Association (WNBA), turned into an evening spent in the Emergency Room at Oschner...
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Diversity in spec lit. Sci-fi and PoC. Calls for diversity submissions.
Lots of opportunities, to hear what People of Color are saying about the need for diversity in speculative lit, and place to submit your spec stories. From editors looking for diversity in different...
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Up Close and Personal: What It Was Like When Verónica Reyes Heard She Won...
Verónica Reyes (center) and Laurie Ann Guerrero (right) holding their First Place award winning plaques,at the International Latino Book Awards Ceremony in Las VegasA week ago, June 28th to be exact,...
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Three questions for Manuel Luis Martinez regarding his novel, “Los Duros”
Manuel Luis Martinez is a writer and Professor of American and Chicano literature at The Ohio State University in Columbus. He is the author of the novels Crossing(1998), Drift (2003), and Day of the...
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Literary Diversity: Publish Your Own. Fútbol On-line Floricanto. Call for Poets.
Review: Pepperpot. Best New Stories From the Caribbean. NY: Peekash Press (Akashic), 2014. ISBN: 9781617752711 e-ISBN: 9781617752834Michael SedanoPeekash Press started out to be not a role model for...
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La Tacopedia. Enciclopedia del Taco
Review by Ariadna SánchezTacos are consider the most emblematic Mexican dish around the world. Tacos also contribute to the creation of the Mexican identity in every single bite.La Tacopedia....
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Chicanonautica: What If a Chicano Wrote the Great American Novel?
by Ernest HoganWhile going over my notes from my latest road trip with my wife, I felt good. Damn, I almost said aloud, I’m really good at Americana.But then, when I do it, and put it out for the world...
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The Great American Novel, Continued
Ernest Hogan’s post on yesterday’s La Bloga, What If a Chicano Wrote the Great American Novel?, was, as usual for Hogan, provocative. With me, it provoked thoughts along the lines of “What IS a Great...
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Your Great American Novel - free ideas to use
Chicano author Ernest HoganThis post follows what Ernest Hogan's Thursday post, Chicanonautica: What If a Chicano Wrote the Great American Novel?, and Manuel Ramos's, yesterday, The Great American...
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Sonia Gutiérrez: Spider Webs in the Wind
Olga García EcheverríaThe mountain trembles,and tippy toed I release my spider's webto the wind.La montaña se estremece, y de puntitas suelto mi telarañaal viento.--Sonia...
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Images in Words
Images in Words:Recreating la poesía by José María Hinojosa Translated from the Spanish by Mark StatmanReviewed by Xánath CarazaBlackTulips: The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa (UNO Press, 2012),...
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The Chicana Traveler Puts a Cork In It
Guest columnistXicana Travelougue: Week 1Sarah Rafael GarcíaIreland was one of Papi’s travel tales. Although Papi himself never traveled beyond Mexico and the United States, he infused my mind with...
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2014 Pura Belpré Medal Award Celebración
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a divison of the American Library Association, and REFORMA (the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and...
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Carlos Contreras y su tiempo cumplido
El poeta Carlos Contreras explora las prisiones físicas, emocionales y espirituales en su reciente poemario "Time Served" (Tiempo cumplido).Contreras, nacido en Albuquerque, comenzó a escribir poesía...
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Open Letter to the International Latino Studies Conference in Chicago
Melinda PalacioLa Bloga represents at the International Latino Studies Conference in Chicago this week. Since my plans to join La Bloga's panel and reunion were squashed by my broken leg, Amelia asked...
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La Bloga "in person" in Chicago: Celebrating 10 years and over 1 million Readers
Our La Bloga "PREZI" digital presentation for the audience(Thank you to Mitch Christopher Hobza for creating the PREZI)La Bloga writers presented in Chicago this past week (July 18th) at "Imagining...
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Three questions for Sheryl Luna regarding her poetry collection, “Seven”
Sheryl Lunaearned a PhD in contemporary literature from the University of North Texas and an MFA from University of Texas, El Paso. Her first collection, Pity the Drowned Horses, received the Andrés...
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Get Out of Line
Michael SedanoGet out of line. Go back.I couldn’t hear the others—if they said anything at all. I struggled to make out forms and faces in the dim light that peopled the blackness now with row upon row...
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Noelle’s Treasure Tale
Review by Ariadna SánchezWhile exploring the amazing Children’s Literature Department at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, a book caught my attention. Noelle’s Treasure Tale is written by...
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