THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: LATINOPIA SALUTES THE TIL! IRE’NE LARA SILVA READS CUICACALLI, BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON HACIA UN NUEVO ORDEN, RICARDO ROMO ON THE UVALDE MURAL PROJECT, EDWARD VIDUARRE READS GOD IS, DIANA LOPEZ ON QUINCEANUNCA: NEVER FIFTEEN, AND SERGIO TRONCOSO ON A PECULIAR IMMIGRANT’S SON.
This week we celebrate the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL) whose annual meeting is being convened in Corpus Christi, Texas the week-end of April 28-30. The TIL is an honorific society of Texas writers that includes poets, novelists, journalists, filmmakers and others who write for and about Texas. We begin with Austin-based Ire’ne Lara Silva reading selections from her new collection of poems, Cuicacalli House of Song. Also this week we post TIL member Edward Viduarre reading God Is, TIL President Diana Lopez reading Quinceanunca: Never Fifteen and past TIL President Sergio Troncoso speaking about his book A Peculiar Pilgrim’s Son.
Also this week, José M. Umpierre’s Burundanga Boricua returns with a review of Rafael Cox Alomar’s new book Hacia Un Nuevo Orden (Toward a New Order), analyzing the status of Puerto Rico today.
And last but not least and certainly most poignant and touching, Ricardo Romo’s Tejano Report looks at the Uvalde Mural Project which has created murals depicting the lives of each of the children who were killed on May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. You have to check out these stunning murals and the lives they represent. Ricardo is to be lauded for his involvement with this mural project from its beginning.
Quite a week on Latinopia, lots of videos and lots of reading.
Enjoy,
Tia Tenopia