The Tejas Star Book Award was created by the Region One ESC Library Advisory Committee to promote reading in general and for readers to discover the cognitive and economic benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism. All the children of Texas will hav... »
Road Report: Heading for a Librotraficante Meet-UpJesus Treviño and Ernest HoganThe Librotraficante bus left Houston on schedule Monday, to great fanfare from well-wishers and teevee cameras. I hope the entire nation saw that on the news and knows the ... »
Forty-Five Years of Chicana Chicano Literature PublishingMichael SedanoNo other national literature comes with a precise start date except Chicana Chicano Literature. August 1972 marks the month editors Herminio Rios and Octavio Romano from Berkeley, C... »
Review: Juan Gomez-Quiñones. Indigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future. San Antonio: Aztlán Libre Press, 2012.ISBN-13:978-0-9844415-2-5Michael Sedano In 1980 I attended the black caucus meeting at an academic conference i... »
A few recent books from a few "small presses" - well worth checking out.New BooksIndigenous Quotient/Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as FutureJuan Gómez-QuiñonesAztlan Libre Press/November, 2011[from the publisher] We're very excited about the... »
Review: American Night: The Ballad of Juan José. Richard Montoya, developed by Culture Clash and Jo Bonney. American Night: The Ballad of Juan José. La Jolla's Potiker Theatre through February 26, 2012.At Culver City's Kirk Douglas Theatre, March 9 – A... »
The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Winner for ... »
In Memoriam: Piri ThomasUnited States letters lost a vital voice in October with the death of Piri Thomas. Tato Laviera, by way of Emmy Pérez who gets this from colleague Stephanie Alvarez, requests La Bloga honor the late poet with Laviera's tribute. ... »
