Goddess of the Americas 2020 December 12, 2020 – Posted in: Blog
Peace to all today on this day of honoring our adored Guadalupe-Tonantzin. 2020 has truly been a year of mourning for the country and the world due to the pandemic.
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Peace to all today on this day of honoring our adored Guadalupe-Tonantzin. 2020 has truly been a year of mourning for the country and the world due to the pandemic.
Continue reading[Xicanisma[*] Prophecies Post-2012] Putin’s Puppet
is not Aryan (or a golden-hair-Thor) but through & through as close
to yellow as it gets.
A flim-flam man claiming billions no one sees.
He & the Czar
had a chat at the Ritz,
Continue readingTwo Men and Me
I left Bukowski again, went back to Bolaño,
both men bad to their women. Both smoked and drank
themselves to death. They liked it rough, said
Continue readingSo many years ago I added this book to my library. Neruda was introduced to me by a good friend then, when I told her I had aspirations to become a poet. I don’t know how this title came into my possession but I still have it and consider it an important tool in my own development as a poet and translator. A few years later, I came to know Miguel Algarín, whom I first…
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Continue readingSharing Perspective: Ana Castillo Uses Autobiographies to Inspire Students The ZOOM program with Diablo Valley Community College in N. California was both a pleasure and an honor. I appreciate the student writer in the school paper. It isn’t my custom to correct facts in public interviews. But when giving advice to aspiring young writers and students in writing classes, it’s important to get my message right. It’s important but not critical. Still, today, it’s an…
Continue readingContact signed for the poetry collection MY BOOK OF THE DEAD: Poems (2012-2020). Cloth edition will be released in Fall, 2021. It will include a few of my line drawings. During the last years, line drawings were in a way, my version of ‘knitting,’ to maintain calmness. My first creative impulse was drawing, so, please don’t take me literally when I compare it to ‘knitting.’ It’s very exciting and no humblebrag here when I also…
Continue readingI’m honored to be delivering the Commencement speech at a university’s December 2020 graduation. However, during COVID-19 the ceremony will be virtual.
Continue reading¡Qué vivan los muertos! Los Vivos ¡Presente! Our final issue of this La Tolteca 2.0 reprise edition is dedicated to the countless loss of human life the world have experienced this year.
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