Esmeralda Santiago

LATINOPIA WORD ESMERALDA SANTIAGO ON PUERTO RICO TODAY

Esmeralda Santiago is the acclaimed author of several novels about the Puertorican experience both on the island and in New York. In her latest novel Las Madres, she tells of the impact of Hurricane … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA WORD ESMERALDA SANTIAGO ON CREATING THE CHARACTER OF LUZ

In Esmeralda Santiago's latest novel, Las Madres, a principal character, Luz, has been left permanently damaged. She suffers from black outs after which she cannot remember what has transpired. … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG MICHAEL SEDANO AND RUDY CH. GARCIA 1.17.25

January 17, 2025 By wpengine

FIRE BURNS NOTHING BUT STUFF La Bloga-Tuesday (1.07.25) welcomes the temporary return of an OG La Bloga veterano, the founder himself, Rudy Ch. García. Motivated by the horrendous California firestorms, García’s essay ruminates upon background causes and humane remedies to moral and actual conflagration. First, a personal note. It all burned down, the house I […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 1.17.25 BENITO HUERTA TRAILBLAZER, CURATOR, EDUCATOR.

January 17, 2025 By wpengine

Benito Huerta: A Latino Art Trailblazer, Curator, and Educator A long anticipated art show featuring the work of the multitalented North Texas Latino artist, Benito Huerta, opened recently at the Kirk Hopper Fine Art gallery in Dallas. Huerta is part of a two-person exhibition with his wife Janet Chaffee. He told Texas art magazine Glasstire that […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 1.04.25 A YEAR OF PHOTOS

January 4, 2025 By wpengine

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 1.04.25

January 4, 2025 By wpengine

Bienvenidos al año 2025. I don’t know about you, but I have to stop and think about that number. Well for one thing, it is ¼ of the way into the 21st century. Secondly, the number reminds me for some reason of outer space. And lastly, this is the year, God willing, that I will […]

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