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Chicanonautica: OVNIs Over Aztlán and Other Phenomena
by Ernest HoganDifferent cultures create different kinds of “aliens.” The “other” depends of who you are and where you’re from. It’s the same in UFO mythologyThe OVNI literature of the Latino world is...
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We No Longer Carry Poetry
by Melinda PalacioThanks to my la Bloga deadline, I composed a new poem on my mother's typewriter.Last week, I was on a mini Bay Area tour to Moe's in Berkeley, Reader's Books in Sonoma, and UC Merced....
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Heroic maestros. Chief Theresa. A reading.
Thanks to Melinda Palacio for the following:Hello Publishers & Writers,This is Chiwan, from Writ Large Press, a downtown L.A. small press that’s been around for about five years. We are partnering...
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Woman Rising: Women Painting in Community
Guest Post by Sonia GutierrezThe work is enormous. Woman Rising, originally a 20' X 20' mural, visited the Centro Cultural de la Raza in San Diego, California, from November 13, 2012, to January 5,...
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The Horned Toad
A short story by Daniel A. Olivas There was a man who lived in a small Mexican fishing village with his wife and three children in a two room wooden house not far from the shore. The man...
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The Plain in Flames. On-line Floricanto.
Translating perfection: Ilan Stavans' Translation of Juan Rulfo.Michael SedanoJuan Rulfo. Trans. Ilan Stavans with Harold Augenbraum. The plain in flames = El llano en llamas. Austin : University of...
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Let's Play Football/ Juguemos al Fútbol
Hola Blogueros, I am very happy to present my new bilingual picture book Let's Play Football/ Juguemos al Fútbol. As always, this book is also about my immigrant experience. When a group of friends...
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Ahhh, those Tríos...
NY's TEATRO SEA presents:"3 Voces"a musical revue of some of the most romantic songs from Latin America's greatest TRIOS, such as Los Panchos and Los Condes. February 14 (Valentine's Gala),15 and 16...
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Legacy Project - Desperado Events and Reviews
The Legacy Project Opening Night Reception Museo de las Americas[from the Museo website]The Legacy ProjectCurated by Maruca SalazarMuseo de las Americas, 861 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO 80204February 7,...
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Raza in the (good/bad) news
La Bloga's Dan Olivas' NYTimes op-ed piece!I had a nephew who committed suicide the year after the San Antonio Catholic Archdiocese settled with him for $50,000 for years of priest-abuse. This is part...
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Writing Rocks
Olga García EcheverríaYou must write every single day of your life…You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.--Ray BradburyI hung Bradbury’s quote above the kitchen sink. It was...
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Open Road set to reissue Michael Nava’s Henry Rios series in e-book format...
Michael Nava is the award-winning author of seven novels featuring criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. The Little Death(1986), the first book in the series, completed while Nava was in law school, was...
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Nopales. Chicano Photography. Floricanto.
The Gluten-free ChicanoNopales con carne de puerco y tortas de camarónMichael SedanoA single penca planted in 1960. ©2013msedanoYou know it’s Springtime when opuntia cactus of the right varieties form...
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Workshops at CABE (California Association For Bilingual Education)
Chocolate “cacao” comida de los dioses2-14-13 12:30 PM - 1:45 PMLong Beach Convention CenterRoom: 103AEl chocolate, tradición milenaria, y el recuerdo de una linda relación familiar con su abuelita,...
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Chicanonautica: Dispatches From the Anthology Front
by Ernest HoganEven with magazines dying off, I still have luck publishing my short fiction. Anthologies seem to be my home. Editors actually come to me. Maybe all those years of struggle are beginning...
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QEPD Barnaby Conrad (1923-2013)
by Melinda PalacioMary and Barnaby Conradphoto by Melinda PalacioLast year, we celebrated Barnaby Conrad's 90th birthday, this year, we celebrate his life. If you've never heard of the famed author of...
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So kids don't breathe 400ppm - NO Keystone XL Pipeline!
NYC neighborhood after Hurricane SandyThis post is about Chicano literature. But of necessity, it's about the rest of the humans and all human culture, too.Word usage fascinates me, something writers...
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Critical Thinking: What an Ethnic Studies Class Looks Like
Amelia M.L. Montes (ameliamontes.com)Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it...
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Rigoberto González to receive Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award
It has just been announced that Rigoberto González is to receive a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award at the Poets & Writers’ annual dinner, In Celebration of Writers, on Monday, March...
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The Scent of Acacia Blossoms As Winter drags on with its cold, dark days and subdued landscapes, I long for the first scent of acacia blossoms. A spectacle of yellow tassels, acacia trees announce the...
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