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Ecos de Whitman
Todos somos Whitman / We Are All WhitmanLuis Alberto Ambroggio Arte Público PressEsta hermosa colección de poemas del poeta argentino radicado en Washington, D.C., Luis Alberto Ambroggio, fue...
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Somos Orlando
Melinda PalacioLa Bloga takes a pause to remember the victims of the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. Articles by Rigoberto Gonzalez on Buzz Feed and Justin Torres on the Washington Post are...
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Besos for Orlando
Olga García Echeverría Back in 2014, soon after posting the above picture on FB, Sylvia noticed that the photo of her and her girlfriend Lillian, interlocked in a kiss, had suddenly disappeared from...
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The Three Mornings of José Antonio Rincón
A short story by Daniel A. Olivas It is true that if pressed, José Antonio Rincón would have denied enjoying the experience because, regardless of the changes he endured during those three...
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Vampires, La Malinche, el Cucuy, New Mexico, Oh Uau! Mid-June Floricanto
Review: Mario Acevedo. Rescue From Planet Pleasure. Monument CO: WordFire Press, 2015.ISBN: 9781614753070Michael SedanoEveryone who gets to know her, Doña Marina, La Malinche, will be double-crossed by...
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20th Anniversary Pura Belpré Celebración
When: Sunday, June 26, 1:00 - 3:30 PMWhere: 2016 ALA Annual Conference Rosen Centre Hotel, Jr. Ballroom F, Orlando, FLCome celebrate twenty years of award winning Latino children's literature at the...
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Chicanonautica: Old Gringos in Psychedelic Sombrero Land
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in;by Ernest Hogan“THE MILLENNIALS HAVE NEVER FACED ANY KIND OF ADVERSITY!”An old lady screamed it as Emily and I sat down. She and two men were in the next booth over at La...
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The Mexican Flyboy: The Curse of Empathy
The Mexican FlyboyAlfredo VéaUniversity of Oklahoma Press - June, 2016 There are days when the world erupts in a cloud of chaos and disaster. As though we are extras in the climactic scene of an...
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In Honor of Orlando Victims, Submit Your Poetry!
Call for Poetry to honor Orlando--Thanks to David Lopez who writes the following:"We are accepting submissions until July 15, 2016, with an anthology releasing early 2017 with selected poetry.Last week...
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Flor y Canto y más
Flor y Canto y másXánath CarazaColumnistas invitadas: Malena Flores, Xóchitl Salinas Martínez, Angélica Abascal Grajales y Liliana A. UribeVine a México con la conciencia clara de la inestabilidad...
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Three Louies. Comic con in NELA.
The Three Louies in Grand PerformanceMichael SedanoGrand Park in downtown Los Angeles is a grand venue but that’s not where audiences enjoyed The Three Louies in a rare appearance, sponsored by Grand...
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Rudas: Niño's Horrendous Hermanitas
By Yuyi Morales Publisher: Roaring Brook Press (October 18, 2016)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1626722404ISBN-13:978-1626722408 Señoras y señores,niños y niñas,the time has come to welcome the...
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Summer Night
"Noche de verano"-Antonio Machado (1875-1939)Es una hermosa noche de verano.Tienen las altas casasabiertos los balconesdel viejo pueblo a la anchurosa plaza.En el amplio rectángulo desierto,bancos de...
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California Dreaming: SUP Yoga, My First Time
Melinda PalacioSUP Yoga in Santa Barbara. Yoga on the ocean!Me in a boat pose Last Sunday was the perfect day to try something new: yoga on the ocean. I've been practicing yoga for over a...
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Wanna VONA?
Guest Blog by Jose Enrique Medina (Quique) In 2015 I applied to Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA/Voices), the nation’s only multi-genre writing workshops for people of color. They rejected...
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Silver Case
By Daniel A. OlivasMaría kept her eyes trained on the silver cigarette case that Dr. Templeton clutched in his right hand. She studied the byzantine design on the case’s surface. At first, María...
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Milkweed seed. Teatro Familia Cycle. Fifth of July On-line Floricanto
Michael SedanoFeed the MonarchsThis is not a BREXIT reference but an allusion to the milkweed plant, the preferred diet of Monarch butterfly larvae."Milkweed Seeds"The photo--part of a limited edition...
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2016 Pura Belpré Award Speeches
The Pura Belpré Award was established in 1996 and honors Latino writers and illustrators whose works of art best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in a book for children. It...
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Chicanonautica: Running with Dangerous Beasts in the Summer of WTF
by Ernest HoganBy the time this post goes up, the Fiesta de San Fermín will have started, PETA will have protested the running of the bulls, and bullfights will be going on. I will be properly...
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Crime Literature in Translation. Tomás Rivera Award Winner Visits Denver
In the U.S., crime fiction doesn't always get the respect it deserves - you know, that old anti-genre bias that lingers long after it should have quietly curled into a quivering ball and imploded,...
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