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and slowly read, and dream
On-line Floricanto For St. ValentineSelected by the Moderators of the Facebook community Poets Responding.Nit pick by Lia EliadesWhat he knows and doesn’t by Odilia Galván Rodríguez ESPERANDO ABRIL por...
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American Library Association Award Winners 2018
The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding...
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Chicanonautica: Cleaning Up Phoenix with Marshal Enrique
by Ernest HoganAs Joe Arpaio rises out of his political coffin run for the Senate, we should remember that not all Arizona law enforcers have been like him.If you go back to the early days of Phoenix,...
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Twentieth Century Still-Life
This photograph of my mother must’ve been taken around 1954 or so. The two hoodlums with her are my younger brother Michael (aka “the Great Intruder”) and me. I guess I’m about six years old, but I...
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Luis Mena , Mestizo Artist by Antonio SolisGomez
In one of my jaunts I ran across Luis Mena’s sculpture of the woman pointing at the Convention Center, a tear coming down her face depicting obvious sadness that her Barrio Viejo was demolished under...
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Interview of Ire’ne Lara Silva
Interview of ire’ne Lara Silva by Xánath Caraza Ire'ne Lara Silva is the author of furia (poetry, Mouthfeel Press, 2010) and Blood Sugar Canto (Saddle Road Press, January 2016) which were both...
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Is Anyone Goin' to San Antone?
Review: Literary San Antonio. Bryce Milligan, Ed. Ft Worth: TCU Press, 2018. ISBN 9780875656939Michael SedanoThe summer after high school graduation, I flew to a speech tournament in Houston Texas. The...
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National Latino Children’s Literature Conference
The 2018 National Latino Children’s Literature Conference will showcase the works of authors, illustrators, and scholars which embody Latino culture and art as a means to promote literacy and reading...
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A Generation Thankful for What They Had and Ignoring What They Lacked
Daniel Cano Los Unidos, University High School circa 1944...
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Building Bird Forgiveness, the Book
Melinda PalacioPreview of my new poetry book, Bird Forgiveness Over the past four years, I've been working on two writing projects at the same time, a new novel, which remains in progress,...
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A Reminiscence and A Trip with Moe by Antonio SolisGomez, Part I
The librarian’s at the old Carnegie Library had seen their share of characters walk through the double front doors during the time that Tucson had grown from a small pueblo to a good size city. But my...
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Celebrate literature at the Tucson Festival of Books, March 10 – 11, on the...
The Tucson Festival of Books is a community-wide celebration of literature. Offered free-of-charge, the Festival exists to improve literacy rates among children and adults. Now in its tenth year, the...
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The Chicana Epideictic. Final February On-line Floricanto
Review: Rita Sanchez and Sonia Lopez, eds.Chicana Tributes: Activist Women of Civil Rights Movement: Stories for the New Generation. San Diego: Montezuma Publishers, 2017....
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2018-2019 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: Afrofuturism, Identity, y Yo
by Ernest HoganI guess I shouldn't be surprised that I am considered to be an Afrofuturist. Besides having a lot of Afro in my futurismo, racism is a primitive default setting the human organism uses...
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The Long and Short of It
March 2, 2018, and I have to say that this year already has been unique. I don’t intend to go over all the stuff that has happened in the past couple of months; suffice to say it’s been a roller...
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A Reminiscence and A Trip with Moe Part II, By AntonioSolisGomez
That Con Safos party was a blast, I thought, as I made the arrangements for desk coverage and then rejoined Fernando and Moe. “I’ll treat you to the best Mexican food you ever had,” I said to them as...
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Interview of Lonita Cook
Interview of Lonita Cook by Xánath CarazaThe Chronicles of Cyn: Awaken the Sleeper by Lonita Cook fills the reader with aromas, polychromatic images, sounds while traveling from the psychological inner...
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Stanford's SoCal Raza Readers and Chicana Tributes. Zeta On Screen.
Michael SedanoCold reality became a blue-skies brilliantly Spring-like March afternoon for the Book Club of the Chicano/Latino Stanford University Alumni Association of Southern California, who...
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Pura Belpré Award Ganadores 2018
From: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpremedalThe award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in...
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