Latino arts, history and culture
Sergio Troncoso is an author of short stories, essays and novels including The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (1999), The Nature of Truth (2003) and From This Wicked Patch of Dust (2011). His latest … [Read more...]
Luis J. Rodríguez’s coming of age novel Always Running, chronicles an adolescence steeped in vicious gang life and drug addiction. Luis miraculously survived his years as a gang member and went on to … [Read more...]
Dr. Alvaro Huerta is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. In his recent book, Defending Latina/o Migrant Communities in the Xenophobic Era … [Read more...]
Alejandro Morales is an accomplished author of novels and short stories. In the title story of his collection, Little Nation and Other Stories, he imagines a band of scissor-wielding mothers forceably … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word José Murrati An Exile's Papers from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Jose Muratti Toro is a regular contributor to Latinopia with his blog Utopias Descifradas (Disciphered Utopias). Here he … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Alejandro Morales The Brick People from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Alejandro Morales is a prolific Chicano author whose works include the novels Caras Viejas y Vino Nuevo (1975); Reto … [Read more...]
Alejandro Morales is an author of short stories and novels including The Brick People, Death of an Anglo, and Captain of these Men of Death. In his historical/futuristic novel The Rag Doll Plagues, he … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Sergio Troncoso Crossing Borders from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Sergio Troncoso is an author of short stories, essays and novels including The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (1999), … [Read more...]
The American literary canon are the authors and their works who have been deemed over time to be the best of American literature. With few exceptions the canon has historically excluded diverse … [Read more...]
The American literary canon are the authors and their works who have been deemed over time to be the best of American literature. With few exceptions the canon has historically excluded diverse … [Read more...]
In 1974, Chicano poets José Montoya and José Antonio Burciaga traveled to New York to meet with Puerto Rican poets of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. On a street corner in Loisaida (the Lower East Side of … [Read more...]
Carmen Tafolla is an accomplished author of prose, poetry and chidlren's books and past Poet Laureate of the city of San Antonio, Texas. She is also President of the prestigious Texas Institute of … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Edward Vidaurre O' Matriarch from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Edward Vidaurre is a poet raised in East Los Angeles and now residing in McAllen Texas where he has been named the poet … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Edward Vidaurre Reason I dont own a Gun from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Edward Vidaurre is the poet laureate of the city of McAllen, Texas and the author of five books of poetry. His … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Mexican American Literature from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Ricardo Angel Gilb is co-editor of the literary anthology, Mexican American Literature A Portable Anthology. This expansive … [Read more...]
Latinopia's blogger Luis R. Torres has recently published a biography of Mexican American education activist Vahac Mardirosian. It was Mardirosian who led the Educational Issues Coordinating … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Alex Espinosa Diego Leon_ from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Alex Espinoza is the author of two novels. His fiction and non-fiction work has been published in numerous literary journals. … [Read more...]
Diana García is a poet who grew up in the agricultural community of Merced, California. Her poetry often deals with the lives of farmworkers as well as feminist and family themes. In September of … [Read more...]
Soñia Rivera-Valdés was born in Cuba. Her book, "The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda," was awarded the prestigious Casa de las Américas Award in Havana in 1997. She has published short stories in … [Read more...]
Daniel Acosta is a writer whose short stories have appeared in Nuestro and Lowrider magazines and in Anthologies. Latinopia caught up with Daniel at the 2010 Flor y Canto Literary Festival convened by … [Read more...]
Part I I have always been nervous about visiting my old neighborhood. One day, my brother Salomon—an acclaimed artist—invited my younger brothers (Noel and Ismael) and I to meet him at our old … [Read more...]
