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Orange Line
A short story by Daniel A. OlivasWe 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 bought it for...
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Apologizing to Whales and other living things
Review: Cecile Pineda. Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-60940-440-6Michael SedanoI’m an on-again-off-again reader of nonfiction--out of long...
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2017-2018 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: Visiting Frida and Diego in Phoenix
by Ernest HoganCaught Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha GelmanCollectionat the Heard Museum here in Phoenix. It’s spectacular and inspiring. It’s also very successful. It'll be...
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FBomb
Denver is home to the funky and often edgy FBomb Reading Series. Here's how the FBomb folks describe themselves:The FBOMB (Flash-Bomb) Reading Series is Denver’s only flash fiction reading series!...
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Interview of Joey De Jesus
Interview of Joey De Jesus by Xánath CarazaJoey De JesusJoey De Jesus is a queer Nuyorican poet whose work has appeared in Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Brooklyn Magazine, The Cortland Review,...
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Granados SoCal Book Tour. Con Safos Magazine Tortilla de Oro Awards
Living Room Floricanto Tops Granados SoCal Book TourMichael SedanoFlor y Canto, ©MaguThe flower and the song, floricanto, as a public happening, takes familiar form as a literary festival, or a reading...
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Juana & Lucas
Juana & Lucas by Juana MedinaAge Range: 5 - 8 yearsHardcover: 96 pagesPublisher: Candlewick (September 27, 2016)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0763672084ISBN-13: 978-0763672089Juana loves many things —...
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Ygnacio Machado’s Map
Daniel CanoWhen I told my father, a long-time West Los Angeles resident, Santa Monica College had given me a sabbatical to interview old-time Westside Latino families, I asked him which families I...
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Roxane Gay reclaims her fat, but hates avocados.
Melinda PalacioRoxane Gay and young fan, Gabby On Wednesday, some 400 people, mostly women, filled the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in New Orleans to hear Roxane Gay in conversation with...
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Marcial Delgado - It Takes a Working Man to Tell a Working Tale
I have the pleasure today to introduce the current ABQ slam champion, Marcial Delgado. Marcial's poetry is firmly rooted in community, Chicanismo, and family. There is a rootedness is his poetry and he...
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Blessed Be: The Poetry of Yaccaira Salvatierra
Olga García EcheverríaPoeta Yaccaira Salvatierra*Earlier versions of the following poems previously appeared in Cheers From the Wasteland, Huizache, and MiPOesiaBLESSED BE Blessed be the Spanish...
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Pluck
A short story by Daniel A. OlivasI step into the bathtub, and Mamá stands in the doorway telling me to be careful, don’t slip and crack your head.As I ease myself into the hot water, she says: Mija,...
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New book on Magu's art
Review: Hal Glicksman and Cortez Constance, eds., Aztlán to Magulandia: The Journey of Chicano Artist Gilbert 'Magu' Luján. Irvine CA: University Art Galleries/ DelMonico Books. 2017. ISBN:...
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Lowriders to the Center of the Earth
Written by Cathy CamperIllustrated by Raul the ThirdAge Range: 9 - 12 yearsGrade Level: 3 - 7Series: Lowriders in SpacePublisher: Chronicle BooksLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 14521383622017 Pura Belpré...
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Chicanonautica: Diego and Pablo in 20th Century
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }by Ernest HoganThe Frida and Diego exhibit at the Heard Museum left my mind reeling. I also came away with some books. That got the ideas percolating . . . Ah, the creative...
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Hard-Boned White Boys
The following is a chapter from my novel, King of the Chicanos (Wings Press, 2010). This was the final piece I read at this month's FBomb Reading Series here in Denver. I think the reading went well....
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"Amigas With Benefits" -- Adelina Anthony on Film Making, Musica, y Mas!
Adelina Anthony (photo courtesy of AdeRisa Productions)La Bloga is honored to have with us today, award-winning writer, actor, director, producer, Adelina Anthony, a fierce...
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The Raving Press ‖ Comentario a la antología _Bad Hombres & Nasty Women_
The Raving Press ‖ Comentario a la antología _Bad Hombres & Nasty Women_ Translated by Gabriel H. SanchezPoetry and narrative as dialectic processes are a constant transmutation that like a wind or...
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40 Years. Gluten-free Summer Soup. On-line Floricanto
Movimiento Couple in 40 Year RetrospectiveMichael SedanoNow that headline’s a fancy way of saying what Oscar Castillo’s portrait gives away nonverbally: Diane and Sergio Hernandez celebrated their 40th...
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