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LA TOLTECA 2.0 Guidelines July 8, 2020 – Posted in: Blog, recent

GUIDELINES LA TOLTECA 2.0 is making its return here at www.anacastillo.net  It is a virtual zine with ongoing posts. You may submit to ana@anacastillo.net Youl’ll receive an automated response and nothing further.  (If you don’t receive the automated response alert me on FB messenger) For consideration to the following new features only unpublished, never posted on SM, original images and material.  If your work is selected it will be posted the following Friday.  If not,…

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La Tolteca 2.0 July 2, 2020 – Posted in: Blog, recent

  So pumped to kickstart La Tolteca 2.0 this weekend! Check out La Tolteca (2010-2016) Well, wha happen was…2016.  Then a mental dive about it in January 2017…but we see the light at the end of this purgatory, trial for humanity and we’re back! You’ll be able to check us out here.  The blog will be La Tolteca 2.0 and virtual.  We’ll do what we did before–feature reviews, photography, interviews, essays, poetry and commentary as…

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“Words like bloody flags in my wake…” May 17, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

Hello, hola–whoever checks in during these dark times. If you have a journal and haven’t been using it this is the time.  If you don’t have a journal but would like to  journal  loose pages will do, a roll of paper will do.  If you prefer to work on a iPad, Notebook, your phone or laptop, computer…  date it and take off. Some guidelines I came up for myself since day one–no censorship, don’t worry…

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Sending all best wishes to stay safe & sound April 30, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

  Do follow me on Instagram the official Ana Castillo.  Or if you wish, FB. Be warned, I’m opinionated.  I don’t care to debate with anyone.  I’m not on social media for the sake of hearing from haters or professional trolls.  Stalkers sent back to their private hells.  All people of consciousness welcome.

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Before Poetry Month ends… April 17, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

  I hope readers here are staying safe & well.  We are all mostly home these days.  I’ll be posting a few prompts & exercises for writing poems here over the next days.  In the meantime, I’d like to share with you again a poem I wrote in 2018.  It was written on the occasion the inauguration of the first African American woman president of my alma mater in Chicago, NEIU.  I was invited to…

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Holy Week. & a Not So Holy Poem April 6, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

Two Men and Me  I left Bukowski again, went back to Bolaño, both men bad to their women.  Me, like the rest, couldn’t get enough. Both smoked and drank themselves to death.  They liked it rough, said that was how they got their best writing done. One winter we all ended up in hell, ran into each other at a café.  [REVISION: bar, public bath…FILL IN THE BLANK.]  Chuck wanted to fuck.  Roberto punched him…

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