Book Review: John Murillo’s ‘Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry’
John Murillo’s ‘Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry’ does what all great poetry should: it cuts into our lives, infiltrates all the spaces of our thinking.
Judging New Books
‘The Hispanic Fanatic,’ a collection of essays by Daniel Cubias, is available now on Amazon
Episode 7 – Border Bound
A long chat with Gabriel H. Sanchez, editor and publisher of The Raving Press out of Mission, Texas.
Episode 6 – Dangerous Minds
A two-hour late-night discussion with author, playwright and publisher Jonathan Marcantoni on everything from the brown-washing of pre-Columbian history, puritanical liberalism, and the conservative nature of Latino culture, to the crises in art and literature, and the state of the #MeToo movement.
Criticizing Artists of Color and Their Work
If artists of color are to create the best works they possibly can, then we need the freedom to treat them as we do their white male counterparts.
Filastine & Nova Release ‘Los Chatarreros,’ a Ballet of Scrap Metal Scavengers
Each evening hundreds of chatarreros (scrap collectors) comb the streets of Barcelona for metals. Their only tools are supermarket shopping carts, which are filled with discarded appliances and other sharp debris until resembling apocalyptic rolling sculptures. This work is done almost exclusively by migrants, mostly Africans without papers. Ubiquitous but invisible, their presence is so…
Diversity Means Nothing If the Stories Are the Same
If we are going to tout diverse books, we need diverse narratives.
Why Latino Lit Isn’t Progressive
Reading Latino literature, you’d think everyone either lives in a shack in the desert or a bohío in the jungle and that there are dirt roads everywhere, zero medical clinics, and zero schools or universities.
