INTERVIEWS

LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Luis J. Rodríguez is an accomplished poet and novelist whose first work, Always Running, has been recognized as a literary tour de force, a searing account of his experiences growing up as a gang … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA WORD THELMA REYNA INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW WITH POET LAUREATE THELMA T. REYNA Latinopia.com is proud to repost this interview conducted by Maria Ferrer for the Latina Book Club with author Thelma T. Reyna, newly named Poet … [Read more...]

RUDOLFO AÑAYA – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Rudolfo “Rudy” Añaya is one of the most celebrated of Chicano authors. His coming of age novel, Bless Me Ultima is perhaps the most widely read novels by a United States born Spanish surnamed author. … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA LITERATURE ARTE PÚBLICO PRESS

Arte Público Press is the leading publisher of books in English and in Spanish written by Spanish-surnamed authors in the United States. Since it was founded in 1979, the publishing house, based in … [Read more...]

AN INTERVIEW WITH MARIO PICAYO, EDITORIAL CAMPANA

AN INTERVIEW WITH MARIO PICAYO, EDITOR IN CHIEF OF EDITORIA CAMPANA AND CAMPANITA BOOKS LATINOPIA: Mario, You are the Editor in Chief of Editorial Campana. How did the Editorial Campana come … [Read more...]

ALBERTO RÍOS – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Alberto Ríos is an Arizona based author of ten poetry collections and three short story collections. He has won the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award and has twice been nominated for … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA FOOD “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD” RECIPE

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile. A real […]

LATINOPIA MUSIC ANGELA ROA “TOCO DESAFINADO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 22, 2014

Angela Roa is a Chilean singer and lyricist residing in Los Angeles, California. Her songs are about the Latino experience in the United States and in Latin America. Here she performs an original song, “Toco Desafinado” (Out of Tune). She is accompanied by Fernando Losada, Rich Silva and Thiago Winterstein..

LATINOPIA WORD RANDY JURADO ERTLL “HOPE IN TIMES OF DARKNESS”

By Tia Tenopia on February 9, 2014

Randy Jurado Ertll is a Salvadoran American author and political activist. He and his family fled the civil war in El Salvador by coming to the United States. He grew up in violence-torn South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s but managed to avoid gang life through the intervention of the A Better Chance Scholarship […]