Richard Vargas

LATINOPIA WORD RICHARD VARGAS LOOKING OUT FOR GERALD LOCKLIN

Richard Vargas is the author of several books of poetry including How a Civilization Begins and McLife and Leaving a Tip at the Blue Moon Motel. At a recent floryanto reunion of poets and authors, … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA WORD RICHARD VARGAS THE BLUE MOON MOTEL

Richard Vargas is the author of several books of poetry including How a Civilization Begins and McLife. His latest collection is titled Leaving a tip at the Blue Moon Motel. He read the title poem to … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA WORD RICHARD VARGAS READS “TEAMWORK” AND “MENUDO”

LATINOPIA WORD RICHARD VARGAS CHICANO VIKINGS, PARAMOUNT JR. HIGH, 1969

Richard Vargas is an acclaimed poet whose latest collection is titled How a Civilization Begins. At a recent Florycanto gathering at the home of author and literary activist Michael Sedano, Vargas … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA WORD RICHARD VARGAS HOW A CIVILIZATION BEGINS

Richard Vargas is an acclaimed poet whose collections include McLife (2005), American Jesus (2009) and Guernica, Revisted (2014). His latest collection is How a Civilization Begins (2022). At a recent … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA WORD TONY MARES REMEMBERED

Tony Mares and I were kindred spirits. Our friendship was effortless. He had a streak of the rebel, and a mischievous twinkle in his eye… both qualities I could easily relate to. He served on my … [Read more...]

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.

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 […]

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 […]