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Opinion: Puritans, then profiteers over Día de los Muertos - QEPD
My guest contributor today is the one and only Flo Hernandez-Ramos. Flo gave an interview to and wrote a column for Colorado Public Radio about Día de los Muertos. She kindly consented to sharing her...
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2014 Halloween / Día de los Muertos
Denver's dead trick-n-treatin'. Students dead/Mexico rising from the dead? Not-voting suicide. Latino/a Rising will live.The two holiday observances ironically portray death from two opposing...
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Los Muertos En Este Dia: Testimonios, or Little Stories (some true, some not)
by Amelia M.L. Montes“Sometimes when I’m working late into the night, they gather all around me. They sit and watch me. Sometimes it’s my tia Chala, sometimes Pepe, others I don’t even know. Some are...
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The Lost Letters of Mileva by M. Miranda Maloney ¿Qué hacen los escritores...
Por Xánath Caraza THE LOST LETTERS OF MILEVA BY M. MIRANDA MALONEY The Lost Letters of Mileva by M. Miranda Maloney (Lobo Estepario Press, 2014) La voz poética en The Lost Letters of Mileva es una que...
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On-line Floricanto for DDLM
Memorial Poetry Reading for James FoleyAmong LA's hardest-working poets, Luivette Resto, Iris de Anda, Gloria Enedina AlvarezLa Bloga friend and fútbol poetry contributor, Yago S. Cura, sends news that...
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The LA Latino Book & Family Festival – Great Books, Humble Souls
By Gladys Elizabeth Barbieri Victor Villaseñor getting read to sign his books.The Los Angeles Latino Book and Family Festival took place last Saturday, 11-01-14, at East Los Angeles College....
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Luis Cruz Azaceta in New Orleans (and in print)
PAINTING OUT LOUD is Luis Cruz Azaceta’s 8th exhibition with the Arthur Roger gallery in New Orleans.Exhibition Dates: November 1 – December 20, 2014 Gallery Location: 434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA...
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Anti-Gravity Drills and Halloween in New Orleans
Month 4 of My Broken Leg For the past couple of weeks, I've been receiving treatment for my broken leg at the Southern Orthopedic Specialists in New Orleans. Although a friend recommended...
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Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of _Massacre of the Dreamers_: Interview...
Ana Castillo, a Midwest born and raised Xicana (from Chicago, Illinois), has been writing novels, poetry, and prose since the 1970s. Her accomplishments are many (click here!). This year she has two...
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A short interview with Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz regarding their second...
Fourteen years ago, Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz had a surprise hit on their hands with Latino USA: A Cartoon History (Basic Books). It was a strange alchemy: Stavans is a prolific writer and editor...
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Veterans Day 2014 • Review: Take This Man • On-line Floricanto Eleven Eleven
Veteranspeak, or 5 Questions To Ask a VeteranMichael SedanoMiG Alley below, Homing All the Way Killers aboveI’ve been a Veteran since August 1970, forty-four years since I walked away from Ft. Lewis...
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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
By Isabel QuinteroPublisher: Cinco Puntos Press (October 14, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1935955942ISBN-13: 978-1935955948July 24My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who,...
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Chicanonautica: Another Damn Election in Arizona
by Ernest HoganThe midterm election was low key in Arizona. Hysteria and paranoia levels were remarkably low, though signs announced candidates as being against Obama -- and he wasn’t running for...
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The Blank Screen - Pedazos y Pedacitos
The Blank ScreenSo I said to myself one day earlier this year – “Self, why not write another book? After all, you’re retired, the assumption is that you now have all the time you could possibly want...
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Sasquan. Latino Kids Lit List. Ask A Mexican. Política in kids lit.
WorldCon 2015 - How inclusive of Latinos & Native Americans? The world's biggest SF/F convention will be held in Indian Country of Spokane, Wash., next August. Since I participated in many "Spanish...
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Open 24 Hours: An Interview With Suzanne Lummis
Olga García Echeverría It's not surprising the Suzanne Lummis' newest collection of poetry, Open 24 Hours, was the winner of the 2013 Blue Lynx Prize. These are poems full of texture and poetic sass;...
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If I Go Missing by Octavio Quintanilla y más
Por Xánath Caraza If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014) by Octavio Quintanilla If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014) por Octavio Quintanilla es un poemario de sesenta y cuatro poemas en tres partes. El...
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¡Faltamos 43!
Michael SedanoWhen I was in the Army I decided I would kill anyone who faced me in war, but I found myself on a Korean mountaintop and didn't face the truth. My friend Mario Trillo, who was getting...
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November 2014 Picture Book Month Passes the Halfway Mark
“When we reached the top, there were over a hundred children gathered on the hillside, some of whom had walked miles to hear a story.” – Sophie Blackall from her Picture Book Month Essay“If a picture...
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