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I have a dream...
By Martin Luther King, Jr.I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great...
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Huizache Returns. Best Poems of 2014: La Bloga On-line Floricanto
span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Pachanga Huizachera Launches Fourth HuizacheMichael SedanoThe profesora strides confidently to her place on the stage of the packed lecture hall. Her...
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Sofi and the Magic, Musical Mural / Sofi y el mágico mural musical
by Raquel M. OrtizIllustrated by Maria Dominguez Spanish-language translation by Gabriela Baeza VenturaISBN:978-1-55885-803-9 Publication Date: May 31, 2015 Bind: Hardcover Pages: 32 Ages: 4-8A young...
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Chicanonautica: Charlie Hebdo, High Aztech and the Wages of Creative Blashphemy
by Ernest Hogan“Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.” Pablo Picasso said it. The hero of my novel Cortez on Jupiter had it...
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Digging the Past
From February 12 through May 29, Denver's Museo de las Americas presents CHICANO.Maruca Salazar, the Museo's Director and Curator of this exhibit, says in her Curatorial Statement:"I have embraced the...
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Food and drink, cubano and mexicano. And books.
I must have a holiday/food/cooking hangover. Made chocolate cookies this week, dipped in powdered sugar and covered with a frosting of chocolate fudge. Also drank my last bottle of Goose Island Bourbon...
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This Week's Lesson: Even Bad Art Has Soul
Olga García EcheverríaAngel was stalling at the door. I could tell by the way he was fidgeting with his backpack, waiting for his classmates to leave, that he had something he wanted to say. Once...
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Corazón Pintado: Ekphrastic Poems, 2015
Xánath Caraza“Caraza’s voice is the pulse of the powerful, mythic earth. Landscape and dreamscape fuse in this rhythmic poetry, as the images Caraza paints and repaints for us—mountains, shells,...
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2014 Review: Writers Reading Their Own Stuff. Book News from Houston.
Michael SedanoIn keeping with the ancient Latinos' god, Janus,January is a month of assessment--looking back, and planning--looking forward. This week brings a handful of exemplar fotos of writers...
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Little Chanclas
by José LozanoAge Range: 5 - 9 yearsPaperback: 32 pagesPublisher: Cinco Puntos Press (February 17, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1935955861ISBN-13: 978-1935955863A bilingual tale about Little Lilly...
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On Cuba: 12 Notes at the Crossroads
Guest Post by Emma TrellesLe sombre Malembo, Dieu du carrefour, 1943, by Wifredo Lam1. After an entire lifetime in South Florida, I now live 3,000 miles away on the central coast of California, in a...
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Honoring Michele Serros: TWO POEMS
Thank you to guest blogger Monica Frazier who wrote such a loving post about her friendship with Michele Serros this past Friday. (Check it out by clicking here!) Again—a reminder that if you are in...
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Dichos de Chimayó
El escritor y fotógrafo nuevomexicano Don J. Usner recoge dichos y refranes de herencia española en la región del valle de Chimayó en un libro donde se mezclan memorias con la geografía cultural de un...
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On Cuba: 12 Notes at the Crossroads
Guest Post by Emma TrellesLe sombre Malembo, Dieu du carrefour, 1943, by Wifredo Lam1. After an entire lifetime in South Florida, I now live 3,000 miles away on the central coast of California, in a...
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Celebrating Chicana Writer, Estela Portillo Trambley
On this last day of January when I’m writing this to you, I celebrate Chicana writer, Estela Portillo Trambley. She was born January 16, 1936 in El Paso, Texas. She died in 1998. In 1975, Portillo...
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The La Bloga interview with Daniel José Older regarding his novel,...
Daniel José OlderBy Daniel A. OlivasIn recent years, Latino/a science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres have gained a higher profile with the help of scholars, bloggers, and the authors...
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QEPD Tony Mares. On-line Floricanto for February.
E. A. "Tony" Mares is one of the veteranos of the 1973 Festival de Flor y Canto who joined the 2010 reunion floricanto, Festival de Flor y Canto Yesterday•Today•Tomorrow, again at University of...
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American Library Association Award Winners 2015
The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding...
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Chicanonautica: The Year of Ancient Chicano Sci-Fi Wisdom
by Ernest HoganWe're in bit of timewarp here. I'm writing this as a get ready to spend the bulk of the weekend going over my lecture notes for the master class in science fiction writing I'll be...
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