Top Off Women's History Month with 8 Trailblazing Latina Authors
…Crime Scene. She writes fairy tales that blend genres and explores grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. Her most recent work includes Loteria, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest…
…Crime Scene. She writes fairy tales that blend genres and explores grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. Her most recent work includes Loteria, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest…
…to make sense of my emotions, I wrote. I journaled and I wrote poems. This was a part of my healing journey and I continued to do so throughout the…
…poems, both of which I drew from when I was crafting the novel,” she tells me. “I also wanted the book to sound like a song, since music plays a…
…out via poems, illustrations, and short stories, the anthology – edited by author and long-time Celestina advocate, Rosario Méndez Panedas – brings together over 30 artists, poets, and writers (mostly…
…me. It also reminded me of a line in one of my poems, Nuyorican, Not, “Colonia no es un perfume.” We’ve got a long way to go for folks to…
…of one scene, Portillo even performs one of her poems further echoing the authenticity of this place. A scene from A Place in the Field at Xochitl Portillo’s (R) family…
…me in and per usual, I thought I was getting in trouble. She said, “I really like the poems that you did for our assignment and we’re going to submit…
…Latino must read — I mean like right after you get thru this article — the collection of essays and poems beautifully told in Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, edited…
…then fling the doors open. That’s how I’ve seen it, because I’ve gotten countless rejections, thousands of rejections over the years for my poems, stories, essays, books. I always set…
…on the process. I love folks seeing poems evolve from a thought or a tweet into a performance or a book. But I also know that there are some things…