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Kids' Spanish mag to close. Virginia Alanis novel. Deep Down Dark.
Two years ago, my first children's story in Spanish appeared in the national magazine, Iguana. El Viaje de Clarisa la Flaquita is a fable written in Spanish. It follows the journey of a brown, skinny,...
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The Violent Foam: Returning to Poet Daisy Zamora
In 2007, LisaAlvarado posted (for La Bloga)a short description of poet Daisy Zamora’s book, Riverbed of Memory. Lisa wrote: “Zamora writes poetry about the horrors of war, its causes and its...
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La Bloga chats with Conrad Romo about the 2nd Annual Lit Crawl L.A.: NoHo,...
If you’re looking for a wonderful and varied evening of literature in Southern California, look no further…the international Lit Crawl phenomenon returns to Los Angeles next week with the 2nd Annual...
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Poets Laureates Farewell and Welcome • Chingón LATC Fest • On-line Floricanto
Laureate Closes Term Poetically: The Most Incredible & Biggest Poem on Unity in the WorldMichael SedanoThe “crown jewel” of the University of California system shifted from Berkeley to UC’s...
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Pig Park
By Claudia Guadalupe MartinezPublisher: Cinco Puntos Press (October 14, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1935955764ISBN-13: 978-1935955764From the PublisherIt's crazy! Fifteen-year-old Masi Burciaga's...
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Chicanonautica: Latino/a Rising With a Mariachi of Mars
by Ernest HoganThe world probably isn’t ready for it, but I’ve learned that the world is never ready for all the good stuff. So don’t wait. Do it now.So why not Latino/a Rising, the first collection of...
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Vanishing Chicano Culture and the Gentrification of Denver’s Northside
Bobby Lefebre is a Denver activist, performance artist, poet, and Northsider. He is the driving force behind the We Are North Denver movement that has shined a bright spotlight on the massive changes...
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Six-Word Memoirs Rock This Blog
Olga García EcheverríaWonderful things can happen while procrastinating...I was putting off writing the day I bumped into Six-Word Memoirs on the Web. http://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/index.php I love...
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NACCS Midwest Focus: Latin@s in the Midwest: Past, Present, and Future in...
Xánath CarazaFrom October 23 – 25, 2014 in Kansas City, the Latina/Latino Studies Program (LLS), University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) will host and organize the NACCS Midwest Focus: Latin@s in the...
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Magulandia lands in Santa Paula • 10,000 Strong Veterans
Michael SedanoMagu. When Magu died his many friends grieved his absence because he was so vital and so young and so alive. You can't miss him, though, because sabes que? Magu lives. There's Magu...
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Mi Familia Calaca/ My Skeleton Family
Review by Ariadna SánchezDía de los Muertos or Day of the Death is approaching. In preparation for this amazing festivity, reading Mi Familia Calaca/ My Skeleton Family by Cynthia Weill in...
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Disaster Strikes in Threes
Melinda PalacioThe calm after the stormSo the saying goes, disasters strike in threes. After I fell down the stairs and broke my leg, I wanted to count those two events as disasters two and three....
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A Northside of people OR developers' gentry Highlands
In John Carpenter's ancient 1981 film Escape from New York, convicted bank robber Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is sent into futuristic 1997 to rescue the US President from Manhattan, which by 1997 is...
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“Latinas and Latinos in the Midwest: Past, Present, and Future” The National...
Census numbers tell it all. There were 3.5 million Mexicanos living in the Midwest in 2010 with present research projecting that the numbers continue to increase. We are now, in 2014, nearing the 4...
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Spotlight on Anna Mavromati
Anna MavromatiAnna Mavromati is already making her mark in Southern California literary circles. Lisa Glatt, author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That (Simon & Schuster), calls Mavromati “a...
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Calaveras for Coachella • Veterans Job Fair • El Sereno Street Festival •...
Michael SedanoIt’s that time of year when cultura shows. Gente paint their faces to resemble skulls, erect spectacular memorial altars, hold processions, art shows, and craft sales to honor our dead....
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Los Gatos Black on Halloween
Review by Ariadna SánchezLet’s celebrate together with Los Gatos Black on Halloween written by Marisa Montes and gorgeously illustrated by Yuyi Morales. Montes’s vivid narrative has the power to...
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Chicanonautica: The Evolution of La Catrina
by Ernest HoganIt’s the end of October, and it’s happening on a weekend: Halloween and Los Días De Los Muertos, that I modestly proposed be made into a three-day fiesta in my novel Smoking Mirror...
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