
My personal Substack
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It’s 1993. I see this book in my mother’s book shelf called After Aztlan—which is an excellent collection of poems from the early 90s. I flip through it and land on a poem by Francisco X. Alarcon about his neighborhood in Los Angeles. It’s...
Sometime in 1993 I don’t recall which bookstore I was in but I saw a copy of Chicana Falsa with a pretty Chicana on the front in a party dress. I bought it without looking at the back cover or knowing anything about her. I read it in like a...
So far in Hispanic Heritage Month I’ve highlighted five authors who influenced my reading and writing: Helena Maria Viramontes, Luis Alberto Urrea, Ana Castillo, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Julia Alvarez—and more will be coming tomorrow— (you Gen...
Hispanic Heritage Month
If you haven’t guessed by now, my picks for this month of celebration is for this first week, writers who have had an influence on me. Some I began reading in my teens and this next one was with me my college years—...
I first encountered a poem by Lorna Dee Cervantes at St. Paul High School in St. Francis Rose’s Honors English class in 10th grade. Back then there wasn’t really Chicano/a poetry just a few shimmers of greatness here and there. I was starvi...
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Author of the short story collection Graft, the chapbooks Iconistas! and Burn Scars, and the poetry collection the daughterland, & the co-editor of Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California's Fire Country.
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