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¡AYOTZI VIVE II! 43+25 mil semillas
¡AYOTZI VIVE II! 43+25 mil semillas Guest Blogger, Una Lucha KCLos 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa + los 25 mil desaparecidos en México se han convertido en semillas dentro de nuestros corazones. Ven y...
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Alfredo Véa in Pasadena. News&Notes. Heartbroken/mended Poets in NELA
Michael SedanoBook Club of Stanford Raza Alumni, SoCal front: Juanita Naranjo, Margie Hernandez, Concepción Valadez. back: Angelique Flores, Manuel Urrutia, Roberto Cantu, Michael Sedano.Southern...
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LEE & LOW BOOKS ANNOUNCES THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL NEW VOICES AWARD
LEE & LOW BOOKS, award-winning publisher of children’s books, is pleased to announce the sixteenth annual NEW VOICES AWARD. The Award will be given for a children’s picture book manuscript by a...
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Latin@ Writers at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
More than 300 writers will convene in Austin next month for the 20th edition of the Texas Book Festival. The festival will take place October 17-18th at the State Capitol and surrounding grounds. The...
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The Time is Now: Chicas Rockeras Touch Down in Huntington Park
Guest Post by Vickie VertizWho are you? Who do you want to be?Today is your day, listen and seeYes we can! (Yes we can!)With chicas on your sideYour moment has finally arrivedFrom “Your Moment,” Chicas...
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A latino chapter book. Latino ecowarriors. Blind submissions. Cracked movie...
The Enchanted cradle for Abuelo storyYesterday I submitted my middle-grade chapter book to a literary agency. The story emerged from real-life experiences of building a neo-azteca cradle for our first...
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How Winter Began: A Conversation with Joy Castro
Joy Castro’slatest book, How Winter Began, will be available this Thursday, October 1st and it is a must read! Acclaimed author, Sandra Cisneros,writes: “Joy Castro’s writing is like watching an...
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Orange Line
A short story by Daniel A. Olivas We sit on the bench waiting for the Orange Line. Rosario reads a Bolaño novel that I gave her last week for her twenty-fourth birthday. In truth, I’d...
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Gluten-free Delight. Leading Ladies at Forest Lawn. News&Notes.
Michael SedanoFor the Autumnal Equinox, the Gluten-free Chicano traveled to his favorite part of the country, the Coachella Valley desert. Not that the Palm Springs area has as much desert these days...
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Lola Levine Is Not Mean!
By Monica BrownIllustrated by Angela Dominguez Age Range: 6 - 10 years Grade Level: 1 - 5 Series: Lola Levine (Book 1) Hardcover: 96 pages Publisher: Little,...
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Chicanonautica: Zen and the Art of Interstate Highways, Part 2
by Ernest HoganSoon we arrived in Truchas, originally Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Truchas, once an outpost of Christendom raided by the Apaches, Comanches, and other Plains tribes according to David...
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New Books: Anaya, Hijuelos, Stavans - October Schedule
Manuel Ramos New books by recognized masters expanding their artistic spheres, digging deep into their...
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Just Published! _Decolonize Your Diet_ : Interview with Luz Calvo and...
Book cover photo by Tracey Kusiewicz and cover illustration, "Maiz Sagrado," by Veronica PerezLa Bloga readers are in for a treat today! The cookbook, Decolonize your Diet: Plant-Based...
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Un Poco De Todo
Xánath Caraza 2016 NACCS TEJAS POETRY BOOK AWARD *Please Circulate Widely* National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies—Tejas Foco Description of Award: NACCS-Tejas invites nominations and...
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Review: Chicago Noir The Classics. News. On-line Floricanto.
Michael SedanoPublisher Akashic Presscontinues to showcase one of the best book series to come down the pike, the Noir city series.Choose a metropolis; writers have found its gritty underside, from...
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Animal Talk: Mexican Folk Art Animal Sounds in English and Spanish
By Cynthia WeillArt by Rubí Fuentes and Efraín BroaAge Range: 3 - 7 yearsGrade Level: Preschool - 2Series: First Concepts in Mexican Folk ArtHardcover: 32 pagesPublisher: Cinco Puntos Press (March 15,...
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Bookcrossing.com, Noticias & Junte en Austin
GUEST POST: Bookcrossing.com – Bilingual Post by Bertha Jacobson BookCrossing.com – English:There are some ideas that capture our interest and imagination. We embrace them with open arms and somehow,...
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Poet Marsha de la O, a San Buenaventura Treasure
Melinda PalacioMarsha de la OI had the pleasure of interviewing Marsha de la O in Ventura a few weeks ago. After the scandal in the New York Times over a White poet using a Chinese name to get his work...
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Monday and Tuesday every week, the Nieto comes over about 7:00am, stays until three or four. He's done that for about a month and become my life on those days. I haven't been around an infant for over...
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_All Day, Talking_ A Conversation with Poet, Sarah A. Chavez
Cover Art/Arrangement: Berly Brown and Kristy BowenMourning becomes eloquent elegy in Sarah A. Chavez’sAll Day, Talking. The narrator, in this tightly woven collection of poems, grieves within vivid...
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