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La Bloga Interview: Severo Perez
Severo PerezSevero Perez is the writer, producer, or director (and often all three at once) of several well-respected and award-winning films including Seguin (1982), ...and the earth did not swallow...
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Attending to Birthing with the Dying
The Platte RiverLast Thanksgiving, I spent a long evening with mi mama showing her YouTube videos of childbirths. Although she had given birth more than once (in the 1950s), Mami had never actually...
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Sin Fronteras Book Festival
Xánath CarazaSin Fronteras Book FestivalGuest Columnist, Rossy LimaThe Second Sin Fronteras Book Festival will host its annual celebration of books and art for the community on Saturday March 5th, from...
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Review: The Amado Women. Dear Chavela. 3030 Studio Opens.
Looking for Love in All the Wrong PlacesReview: Désirée Zamorano. The Amado Women. El Paso TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2014. 1-935955-73-XMichael SedanoLove is complicated, not the many-splendored thing of...
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Read Conmigo
Empowering Families Through Bilingual LiteracyTime spent together is a precious gift for families. Read Conmigo, sponsored by Infinity Insurance, was created to help parents, grandparents, and...
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Harrison Candelaria Fletcher talks about his new memoir, Presentimiento
Presentimiento: A Life in Dreamsby Harrison Candelaria FletcherAutumn House PressHarrison Candelaria Fletcheris the author of Descanso For My Father: Fragments Of A Life, winner of the Colorado Book...
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Another Chance for Goodbye
Melinda PalacioMy grandmother has been dying for the past 25 years. At least, that's what she's been telling me for as long. Our telephone conversations always end on an uneasy note and when I see her...
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A Chicano novelist and his literary works – David Bowles
One characteristic of mainstream Anglo-American literature is separation of literary works vs genre works. Literary is considered superior, more scholarly and artistic, while genre--also called...
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Here Comes The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and...
Olga García Echeverría the angels herehave pigeon's wingsblue collarswashed in sweatthe common saltin tearstongues swirlin a stew of culturessinging asphalt songsin the mist of seagullsbebop atopthe...
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It's not too late to help Con Tinta make La Pachanga 2016 a success!
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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Poetry Fights Elder Abuse. Farewell Until Next Year, Francisco.
Poetry Reading at USC Keck School of MedicineMichael SedanoNew Mexican photographer Geraint Smith's stunning landscapes were used with the artist's permission.La Bloga friend Karen S. Cordova's poetry...
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2016-2017 Tejas Star Reading List
The Tejas Star Reading List Task Force annually selects a recommended reading list of bilingual English/Spanish books or books written in Spanish from books published in the three years prior to the...
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Chicanonautica: Visions in Oaxaca and Beyond
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }by Ernest HoganThe Mexico trip described in my last Chicanonautica didn't end in Tenochtitlán. My sister Carol and I took a train south, to Oaxaca. As we left La Capital...
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Play Time in the Rockies. Latino History. New Lit Journal. New Book. World...
The play's the thing. Presenting three new dramas showing in Denver that should appeal to La Bloga's readers. Plus: a writing opportunity, community news, worthwhile notices, and a major lit...
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"The Essence of Tejanidad:" _Entre Guadalupe y Malinche_, a New Anthology...
cover design/art by Santa Barraza"There is a street corner in the city of Laredo, Tejas, known as the doorway to the United States and Mexico, where two streets converge like the history of Tejana...
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FESTIBA & Sin Fronteras Book Festival, International Women’s Day, and La...
Xánath CarazaReporting from FESTIBA and Sin Fronteras Book Festival, Rossy LimaDurante los últimos 6 días, el Valle del Río Grande celebró la palabra verdadera, esa que no hace distinción entre...
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Poetry Road Trip. Guest Reviewer. Honoree Nominations.
30 Poets, Four Cities, This WeekMichael SedanoBilling themselves as Las Lunas Locas, thirty women from Los Angeles begin a caravan Thursday, driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco to launch a...
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The Story Circle / El circulo de cuentos
WrittenDiane Gonzales BetrandIllustrated by Wendy Martin Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Pinata Books; Bilingual edition (May 30, 2016) ISBN-10: 1558858261 ISBN-13:...
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Classical music remaking Tijuana
Tijuana has had a bustling a classical music and opera scene for many years now - ever since an orchestra of wayward Russians arrived in town, fresh from the collapse of the Soviet Union, and changed...
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