POETRY: Two Poems – All I Want Is You/Dear Home, | Leslieann Hobayan
Pancit and lumpia. Lechon and kare-kare. Baptisms, communions, first place math team.
Basketball in driveways and A Tribe Called Quest. Line dancing and cotillions. Tinikling and
karaoke. |
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POETRY: Two Poems – It’s Been Three Months Since the Last Drop of Rain / Turning | Rina Garcia Chua
grass has become painfully
dry – paper brown silhouettes
sticking up to the heatnoisy magpies peck at food
forgotten on the courtyard;
sneering at the shiny ravens |
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REVIEW: I Am the Person I Know Best: Jennifer Givhan’s Lifeline | Cody Stetzel
The forms that Lifeline works through are wide: some have a more traditional look to them; more often, though, these poems are delighting in lineation, white spaces, and alignments trying to challenge the form of the poem to craft just as much of an image as the environments where the poem, inescapably, finds itself. |
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REVIEW: The Body Is Not An Apology | Hannah Eko
In The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, author and body image activist, Sonya Renee Taylor outlines the insidious nature of self-hate and showcases its relationship to social and political ills. It’s not everyday you pick up a self-help book with a naked, gorgeous, fat, dark-skinned and bald-headed, black woman lying down amidst a circle of technicolor flowers. |
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MICROEDITORIAL: For Kanye, – Resistance Across the Americas | Carol Elizabeth Boyce Davies
Zora Neale Hurston has an often discussed 1928 essay “How it Feels to be Colored Me” in which she made the argument which perhaps Kanye wanted to make.“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. |
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MICROEDITORIAL: Against Official Forgetting | Sarah Schulman
Then we get to writers. Right now there is a lot of media attention about Junot Diaz, the only Dominican person who has been allowed in/used for branding/appreciated by the white corporate literary industry. |
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MICROEDITORIAL: Impossibility of Redemption/Justice and Possibility | Lorgia García-Peña
I come from a place in which I was taught that you don’t meet violence with violence and that misconduct and mistakes, particularly when people own up to them, should be met with constructive dialogue that lead to justice and redemption. This is a conversation I have been immersed in since last year when Harvard revoked Michelle Jones’s admission. |
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MICROEDITORIAL: Spanish Translation – Rodillas: Un Lugar de Reconciliación | Daisy Hernandez
Crecí con la idea de pertenecer a una familia de pájaros. Cuando tus ancestros vienen de Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico y Perú – el borde no es un desierto o un río; es el cielo entero. Durante años pensé en mi familia no como personas que cruzaron la frontera, sino como una bandada de pájaros que migraron hacia el norte. |
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FICTION: Blood Out | Lizz Huerta
The day my blood first came I lay belly flat on Jenny’s scratchy bedspread, watching Saved By the Bell and wondering if Mario Lopez was prettier than me. He had dimples. I didn’t. |
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COMIC: Laritza | Ivan Velez
Ivan Velez Jr. is an openly gay Latino American creator of comic books, known for his work with Milestone Media and for creating Tales of the Closet, one of the first comics to depict the everyday lives of LGBT youth. |
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| POETRY: El Present Is a Gift | Josefina Báez
…A woman named City
Hips swing male or female
We swing creating our tale
Male or female we swing
No one to blame or complain but go |
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INTERVIEW: Drawing Maps with Sandra Cisneros – Full Version
We began our conversation with Sandra Cisneros drawing our own personal maps of the United States. Drawing jump-started our conversation about latinidad, place, writing, privilege, power, and activism. In the end we journeyed together in conversation remembering and thinking through how we work and continue to work as Latina/o creatives and scholars. |
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| NONFICTION: Tlaquaches | Joe Jiménez – Full Version
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I cannot say that I have always loved tlaquaches. They are not like hummingbirds or jaguars—there is no glamor to a tlaquache. Hummingbirds are magical, of course. The fury of their marvelous wings, their iridescent green coats, their red throats. Jaguars, also, with their magnificence, their predatory prowess, their status as warrior symbol, are easy to love or fear, maybe admire, perhaps all of these potencies at once. But tlaquaches are not like hummingbirds or jaguars. Tlaquaches are opossums. |
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Featuring work by: Norma Liliana Valdez, Joe Jiménez, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Gessy Alvarez, Li Yun Alvarado, Lizz Huerta, Sandra Cisneros, Ivan Velez, Laura Winther Galaviz, Josefina Báez, Marigloria Palma, Carina del Valle Schorske, and Melanie Márquez Adams.
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