Your daily dose of Chicano poetry
"I write poems on walls that crumble and fall
I talk to shadows that sleep and go away crying.”
Luis Omar Salinas (1937–2008)
Chavela Vargas’ “La Llorona”
Andres Montoya Poetry
Four poems from The Iceworker Sings, courtesy of Bilingual Press
[these links come via Manuel Paul Lopez, listen here]
contemplations from concrete: nine movements, # 1 scar
Fourth of July In The Mission
¿Chicano y que?: CALAVERAS CALLEJERAS
This comes via ¿Chicano y que?
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If you are interested in amazing Chicano-identified documentary photography, check out this blog. CALAVERAS CALLEJERAS
Golondrina Readings
from Las True Stories of San Antonio by Barbara Renaud Gonzalez
NEW READING SCHEDULE FOR GOLONDRINA, WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?
Fri Jul 10 8pm – 9pm Reading/Performance with Vicki Grise “The Panza Monologues” – Resistencia Bookstore, Austin, Texas
Fri Jul 31 7pm – 8pm Book Reading – Cafe Quetzalcoatl, El Paso, Texas
Sat Aug 1 Reading (TBD) at Summer MALCS Institute, Las Cruces, NM – Summer MALCS Institute, Las Cruces, NM
Thu Sep 3 6:30pm – 8:30pm Reading with local novelist Jay Brandon – Brookhollow Library, San Antonio, Texas
Mon Sep 14 7pm – 8pm Reading at Barnes & Noble, San Pedro Crossing, San Antonio – Barnes & Noble, San Pedro Crossing, San Antonio
Sat Oct 31 Featured Author, Schedule TBD, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Xican@ Poetry Daily 