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Chicanonautica: Steal This Civilization
by Ernest HoganIs this the right time to bring this up? Why not? Maybe after the election will be too late . . . Anyway, I was answering some questions for some publicity I'll be doing with The Future...
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Murder Movie
This week: a short story from my collection The Skull of Pancho Villa and Other Stories(Arte Público Press 2015.) Murder Movie first appeared in Voices of Mexico, Issue 65, 2003. MURDER MOVIE ©...
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"She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me " Considering Bob Dylan's...
I grew up in a household of vinyl music-- Mexican, Chicano, and Anglo music of the 1950s and 1960s. My parents would play all three kinds of music interchangeably. I learned to sing to Les Paul and...
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Interview of Donna Miscolta
Interview of Donna Miscolta by Xánath CarazaDonna MiscoltaXánath Caraza (XC): Who is Donna Miscolta? Donna Miscolta(DM): I grew up in National City, CA, previously named Rancho de la Nación by Mexico...
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Review: Gruesome Murders Grotesque Padres. Arias launches Wetback. ChimMaya...
Review: Maria Nieto. The Water of Life Remains in the Dead. Mountain View, CA: Floricanto Press, 2016. ISBN 9781888205596Michael SedanoWhen a reader picks up a book one of the first impulses is to...
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The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition
By Reyna Grande Age Range: 10 - 14 years Grade Level: 5 - 9 Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Aladdin Language: English ISBN-10:...
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The Times They Are A-Changing: Autumn Poems
Melinda PalacioLast week was great because Bob Dylan was blowing in cyberspace. Congratulations Bob on winning the Nobel literature prize. This week may be all about nasty women and bad hombres. So, I...
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Reading Wendy Ortiz' Bruja: A Bewitching Memoir in Dreams
Olga García EcheverríaAnything can happen in a dream. Anything can happen in Bruja. Cats multiply and scurry; sharks lurk in lakes; an ocean wave floods a living room one minute and then becomes a calm...
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Reflections from a Scholar: The Day I Learned I was Mexican and Poor
Photo by Pablo Aguilar Guest essay by Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D.He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze...
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Review: Arias' Wetback. Gluten-free chile. On-line Floricanto.
Vintage Arias ReduxReview: Ron Arias. The Wetback and Other Stories. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2016.ISBN: 978-1-55885-834-3Michael Sedano"Vintage Arias," the Facebook commenter wrote. In a lot of...
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Poetry of Resistance and Posada Readings
CSUF Grand Central Art Center125 N Broadway, Santa Ana, California 92701THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27TH (6:30-8:30pm)WORKSHOP & READINGwith local poets, Javier Pinzón & Odilia Galván RodríguezEvent...
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Support Great Storytelling: TELL YOUR TRUE TALE
Hey folksMy writing workshop - TELL YOUR TRUE TALE, which for three years has been turning novices into writers/storytellers -- is competing for a $25,000 grant from LA2050 to help us continue the...
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Chicanonautica: Tom Swift and his Old-Fashioned Racism
by Ernest HoganI had a couple of the Tom Swift, Jr. books when I was a kid. I don't remember much about them, except that the author – Victor Appleton II, who turns out is a pseudonym owned by the...
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From Pancho to the Postman to Mitchum to Gus. And Private Eyes and Really Bad...
Ah, 2016 ... what a long strange trip it's been. And it ain't over yet. A few days shy of día de los muertos and it's like endless summer here in Colorado. I won't be surprised if trick-or-treaters...
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"MUJERES"-- Five Latina Artists Exhibit Their Work in Kearney, Nebraska
"Mujeres" Artists (left to right): Reneé Ledesma, Claudia Alvarez, Sandra Williams, Linda Garcia-Perez, Nancy Friedemann-SánchezOn Saturday, October 22nd, The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), in Kearney,...
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Día de Muertos at the Writers Place
Día de Muertosat the Writers Place Xánath CarazaAltar para The Writers Place 2015Poetry, music, dance, art, and altares de muertos--be certain to come to this bright and joyful annual celebration at...
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DDLM On-line Floricanto
On-line Floricanto for el Día de los MuertosGuadalupe González Pérez, Sonia Gutiérrez, John Guzlowski, Ramón Piñero, Jabez W. Churchill, Jolaoso Prettythunder, Edward Vidaurre, Betty Sanchez, Sharon...
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TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
The Texas Book Festival connects authors and readers through experiences that celebrate the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination.The Texas Book Festival (TBF) began with a simple purpose: to...
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LadyFest New Orleans, 2016
Melinda PalacioThis year, I had the pleasure to join LadyFest in New Orleans after a much too long hiatus. LadyFest is a week long celebration of women artists in New Orleans with music, film, poetry,...
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NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS: THE POETRY OF OCEAN VUONG
by Guest Blogger Jose Enrique MedinaCopper Canyon PressThis summer I attended a poetry workshop at VONA Voices, the nation’s only multi-genre writing workshops for people of color, in Miami, Florida....
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