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Yoeme The People, Part I Palm Sunday Celebration by Antonio SolisGomez
My wife and I are in the dusty court yard that stretches more than half the length of a football, at the front the Catholic Church with its doorless wall open to the courtyard. Finally there is...
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The granddaughter remembers Blas Lara Cázares
The granddaughter remembers Blas Lara CázaresBy Lara Medina, Ph.D.My childhood recollections are of a stately if sad man, who, during our monthly visits, sat quietly in the kitchen of his small...
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Brotherhood Endures. Writers Face Their Fears. USC Centro Faces Oblivion
Review: Rigoberto González. What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood.Madison: U Wisconsin Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-299-31690-7 (link)Michael SedanoThe vision on the page blinded me...
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Danza!: Amalia Hernández and Mexico's Folkloric Ballet
By Duncan TonatiuhAge Range:6 - 10 yearsGrade Level:1 - 5Hardcover:32 pagesPublisher:Harry N. Abrams Language:EnglishISBN-10: 1419725327ISBN-13: 978-1419725326Award-winning author and illustrator...
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Patrolling the Streets of Our Nation's Capital
Daniel Cano National Guard in Washington D.C. I write this...
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Gary Soto's Reboot 2018: Review The Elements of San Joaquin
Melinda PalacioGary Soto's The Elements of San JoaquinPages: 88 pp;Format: Paperback Publication: Chronicle Books February 2018ISBN: 9781452170138There are few opportunities for do-overs in life;...
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Part II, Yoeme Mask Carvers and Artists : La Familia Martinez by Antonio...
Frank ‘Chico’ Martinez began carving when he was twelve, learning from his uncle Luis Garcia. He achieved a degree of fame, some of his masks hang at the University of Arizona Museum, carving with very...
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What a wonderful time at the 2018 Tucson Festival of Books!
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. Last month, the Festival...
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NLWC Year Eleven. Bless Me, Ultima Opera Debut. April On-line FLoricanto,
A National Latino Writers Conference Again? Michael SedanoFor a decade, the History and Literary Arts division of the National Hispanic Cultural Center gave the New Mexico institution a dominant role...
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2018 Tomás Rivera Book Award Winners
Texas State University College of Education developed The Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award to honor authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American...
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Chicanonautica: The Brown Buffalo Rises Again
by Ernest HoganThe world mostly knows Oscar Zeta Acosta as he was caricatured into a 300-pound Samoan attorney by Hunter S. Thompson. Later he was portrayed by Anglo Actor Peter Boyle in the film Where...
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Interview With M.R. Tapia
The short stories of M.R. Tapia have appeared in Schlock Webzine, Deadman's Tome, Empty Sink Publishing, and Hindred Souls: Dark Tales for Dark Nights. His short story, Stella Reign, was a 2016...
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El Principe: Dealing with a Bully in a Bygone Era by AntonioSolisGomez
La Mansion 306 w. Overland (recent photo)I was born in El Paso in 1941 a few months before the start of World War II. My mother, Nena, was a single mom, having given birth to my older brother Ruly...
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The Collapse of Humanity: A Chicana in the Balkans
"...I listened to the snow bursting under the tireslike teeth crunching an appleand I felt a wild desire to laughat youbecause you call this place helland you flee from here convincedthat death beyond...
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XI International Conference on Chicano Literature and Latino Studies
XI International Conference on Chicano Literature and Latino StudiesXánath CarazaThe XI International Conference on Chicano Literature and Latino Studies, organized by HispaUSA and the Universidad de...
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Autry Summer Kickoff. liz gonzález On-line Floricanto. Rose Poets Unusual Places
liz gonzález On-line Floricanto: Autry After HoursMichael SedanoAutry After Hours from the gente at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park adds razacentric programming to the region’s...
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Festival of BooksSaturday, April 21, 2018 | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.Sunday, April 22, 2018 | 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.USC CampusUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity Park CampusLos Angeles, CA...
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A Mexican Woman's American Journey
Daniel Cano Eusebia Gonzalez, with grandchild, Santa...
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The Day the Book Died
Melinda PalacioMusic is very much alive this festival season in New Orleans. Last weekend, some of the highlights of the French Quarter Festivalincluded Gal Holiday, Papo Y Son Mandao, and The Treme...
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Indigenous Man Walking the Land-Fidel Moreno by AntonioSolisGomez
Meeting Fidel involved some synchronicity. He had come to Tucson to attend the Yoeme Easter Celebration at Old Pascua but arriving early went to one of the assisted living complexes to conduct a...
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