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Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles - This Saturday
Hey folks - this Saturday is the launch of Volume 5 of true stories from new authors in my TELL YOUR TRUE TALE writing workshop at ELA Public Library. 3PM - 3rd & Mednik in ELA.The TYTT stories are...
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Martín Espada talks to La Bloga about his new book
Vivas to Those Who Have Failedby Martín EspadaW.W. Norton & Co. 2016L.G.: Tell me more about the title... How did it come to the five sonnets? Do we need to be acquainted with the Whitman poem to...
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A Musical Interlude from Carnival 2016
Melinda PalacioThe Louisiana Philharmonic at St. Louis Cathedral Carnival season is in full swing in New Orleans this weekend. I took advantage of a musical interlude last Wednesday. Don't...
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A Tell Your True Tale story - Book Launch Saturday at ELA Library
Hey Bloga folks -Volume 5 of Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles launches this Saturday at ELA Library (3pm)....12 great new writers. 12 amazing true stories:A Chinese girl grows up in South Central....
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No Más Bebés: Documentary on Latina Sterilization Premieres on PBS
Text in this blog via Independent Lens' official press releaseMaria Hurtado: Photo from PBS PressroomDirected by Renee Tajima-Peña (Who Killed Vincent Chin?), No Más Bebés premieres on Independent...
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A Chicana/o Love Story: What’s Student Activism Got to Do with It
Guest essay by Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D. Growing up on the mean streets of East Los Angeles, when it came to girls, I was shy.It’s not that I feared that they would beat me up, like the bullies that I...
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Floricanto for Francisco. Pushcart Floricanto.
Michael SedanoClick here to view Francisco X. Alarcón's reading at the 2010 Festival de Flor y Canto Yesterday • Today • Tomorrow, held at the University of Southern California. USC's Visions &...
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Mamá the Alien/ Mamá la extraterrestre
Written by René Colato LaínezIllustrated by Laura LacámaraSchool & Library Binding: 32 pagesPublisher: Children's Book Press an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc (July 15, 2016)ISBN-10:...
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Chicanonautica: Hijacked by High Aztech
by Ernest HoganHigh Aztechis back, in a new edition, with a new cover, and it seems to be taking over my career and life. It's my biggest seller and has been written up in academic books and journals....
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New Books: Poetry of Resistance, Desert Thriller, All About Junot
New stuff for your library: the long-anticipated Poetry of Resistance from Poets Responding to SB 1070, edited by Francisco Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodriguez; new crime fiction from former crime...
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Are you ready for La Pachanga 2016?
Xánath CarazaWho will be honored at the Pachanga & Award Ceremony in our new year in Los Angeles, CA? When and where will our event take place? How can you help? The Advisory Circle of Con...
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Reader Etiquette. Artist Call. Ron Arias. Bryce Milligan.
Michael SedanoLa Bloga friend, Thelma Reyna, publisher of the Altadena Poetry Review Anthology 2015, sent her panel of readers an important message about the etiquette of participating in a reading....
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Message From Francisco X. Alarcón
English translation by Esthela AlarcónDear friends - below please find my attempt at the English translations for my brother's last message to all. Thank you Sonia Gutiérrez for you input. I am posting...
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Miscelánea...
CHICAGO: April 7-9, 2016The Latino Art Now! Conference is the leading national forum for artists, art historians, art professionals, educators, scholars, critics and art dealers. The Fifth Biennial...
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The Carnival Is Over. Mardi Gras 2016
Melinda PalacioMasking for Carnival in New OrleansThis carnival season was particularly brutal. Cue the violin music: one long party from second week of December to February 9. Lent and a little public...
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Ode to the Wave: A Love Poem by Pablo Neruda
English Translation by Ilan StavansOnce more my verse goestoward the waveI can't stop singingto you, wave, a thousand times a thousand,a thousand times,oh fugitive bride of the ocean, slimgreenVenusyou...
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Are you ready for La Pachanga 2016?
This year, the annual AWP Conference will be held in Los Angeles. And that means Con Tinta will be in the City of Angels, as well, to celebrate literature by hosting La Pachanga and Award Ceremony. Who...
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Arroyo Grande Reading. Halftime Yearning. Remembering Francisco. Gemini evening.
Book Launch Reading in Pasadena BackyardMichael SedanoThe spate of heavy rain exhausted itself and overnight the weather turned Southern California gorgeous. And since it looked like Spring had sprung...
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A Charmed Life / Una vida con suerte
Written by Gladys E. BarbieriIllustrated by Lisa Fields Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Pinata Books; Bilingual edition (May 30, 2016) Language: English...
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Chicanonautica: Impressions of Tenochtitlán
by Ernest HoganI probably would have never written High Aztech if I hadn't been to Mexico City, thanks to my sister Carol. It blew my mind, to use a cliché that seems to pop up a lot these days – maybe...
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