Bilingual Poems

UTOPIAS DESCIFRADAS con JOSÉ MURATTI 4.04.16 “DUERMES”

Duermes* y yo velo tus sueños. Vuelo en ellos, las yemas de mis dedos sobre la punta de tus alas, el batir de nuestros brazos como aspas de un molino a prueba de lanzas y … [Read more...]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 12.08.24

December 8, 2024 By wpengine

Pues aquí estamos, at the end of the 2024 year. ¿Qué te puedo decir? It has been a wild ride! For us here at La Voz Newspapers, 2025 will mark our 20 year of publishing a community based news newspaper. For those of you who may be wondering, what is a community based newspaper? Basically […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 12.08.24

December 8, 2024 By wpengine

Tejano Artists in Texas: A Brief History The word Tejano almost never appears on the front page of The New York Times. But in a December 1, 2024 story by Jazmine Ulloa about the arrival of Space X at Boca Chica, Texas near Brownsville the journalist described the political impact of Space X as one […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT LATINO CULTURE, MEMORY AND FOLK ART ON DISPLAY

November 28, 2024 By wpengine

2024 has been a good year for Latino Art. Museum and gallery shows in Santa Fe, Houston, and New York City in November and December highlight the deep talent and rich variety of Latino Southwestern artists. First, I call attention to Santa Fe, New Mexico to feature the exciting paintings of Brandon Maldonado. Maldonado’s Hecho A […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO PELIGRO INMINENTE Y PRIMEROS AUXILIOS

November 23, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Zocotroco José M. Umpierre De Peligro Inminente y Primeros Auxilios El Estado Autocrático Para todo aquel que intenta cumplir la responsabilidad ciudadana de mantenerse informado, el producto inevitable tras las recientes eleccione del Norte es el agotamiento; las batallas tan sido intensas y por demasiado tiempo. Media también el alivio de la incertidumbre, […]

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 12, 2011

José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and activist who has been in the forefront of the Chicano art movement. One of his most celebrated poems is titled “Pachuco Portfolio” which pays homage to the iconic and enduring character of El Pachuco, the 1940s Mexican American youth who dressed in the stylish Zoot Suit.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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 […]

Category: Cooking, Food, LATINOPIA FOOD