Q+A With Guadalupe García McCall, Author of "Echoes of Grace"
…poems in a file [from when I was teaching] and realized I was writing a book of what it’s like to be a Mexican American girl on the border –…
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The Latina Lesbian Love Story That Inspired a Nobel Prize
…her first masterpiece. Entitled Desolación, it is a collection of poems written over ten years and published by the Instituto de Las Españas. Between verses with political overtones, laments of…
'Summertime' is the Perfect Ode to the Real, BIPOC-Filled Los Angeles
…workshop with the actors to create just the first draft of the film script and months of further revising, editing, and cutting entire poems before and even during filming. The…
Reimagining the Salvadoran Diaspora Through Poetry: A Q+A with Janel Pineda
…female figures in her life (“perhaps this why all my poems / are about the sun, about coming from / women who have survived / by chasing it…women who leave…
40 Years of 'This Bridge Called My Back'
…Bridge Called My Back is more than a collection of poems and essays. It’s a cure for wounds we didn’t even know we had. Every sentence simultaneously feels like a…