UPDATE: Carlos Fuentes Has Died
UPDATE: Carlos Fuentes Has Died
From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio I am just processing the news that one of my dearest mentors, the great Mexican author and public intellectual Carlos Fuentes, has passed […]
Fuentes On Immigration: Where Are Your Workers Coming From?
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco I’m interested in Carlos Fuentes’ political side. There is a fine line, somewhere, that signals the place where you’ve gone too far. I don’t want to […]
Carlos Fuentes – Old Soldiers Never Die
By D. C. Basset, Voxxi General Douglas MacArthur said in his farewell speech in 1951 that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. It is the same with writers and […]
Bien Hecho: Carmen Tafolla Is San Antonio’s First Poet Laureate
Earlier this month, the city of San Antonio, Texas inaugurated its first Poet Laureate, UTSA scholar Dr. Carmen Tafolla. Tafolla, currently the university’s writer-in-residence for Children’s, Youth, and Transformative Literature was […]
Benedetti: The Well Loved Poet The U.S. Should Come to Know
The Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti is relatively unknown in the United States, but in Latin America the name Benedetti is synonymous with Poetry. Even though the work of Chilean poet […]
A Video Report Of The Librotraficante Banned Book Caravan
By Tia Tenopia In 2011, the Arizona State Legislature passed HB 2281, a law which prohibits schools from offering courses at any grade level that advocate ethnic solidarity, promote overthrow […]
Latinopia Word: “A Caribbean Journey from A to Y”
By Tia Tenopia Mario Picayo is the editor and publisher of the Editorial Campana literary publishing company based in New York. He is also the author of children’s books published […]
Word Of The Day: “Legal Alien”
By Tia Tenopia Pat Mora is a poet, novelist and author of children’s books. Her writings often reflect the conflictive nature of being bilingual and bi-cultural. Here she reads the […]
True Love Is About So Much More Than Sex
When I taught a love literature class a few years ago, to a class comprised entirely of young college girls, I assigned stories and essays about various forms of love. […]
The Origins Of One Latina Nerd
All this recent Latino nerd talk — shout out to all of my brothers and sisters — got me thinking about the origins of my nerdom. How exactly did this happen? […]
