Drawings by Castillo are featured throughout the collection and further showcase her connection to her work as both a writer and a visual artist. MY BOOK OF THE DEAD is a remarkable collection that features a poet at the height of her craft.
Continue readingJET is calling for manuscripts for the Vol. 9, No. 5, May 2021 issue. Submission deadline: April 5, 2021
Continue readingTake it from someone who knows it’s important to never give up, someone out there needs to read your words, hear your personal wisdom, be lifted by your spirit.
Continue readingWriting prompts:
Even if you respond to these questions in your head or, perhaps, go to your journal, it’s important to consciously reflect so as to move forward:
Continue readingWhether you belong to an organization, in government, the arts or sciences, or none, but are a caring human being, we may all do something for this planet, its inhabitants, water and plant life.
Continue readingMy friend, Rodrigo Reyes, a writer and actor who passed away in 1991, and was the first person I knew who contracted AIDS, used to say, “What you are looking at is looking.”
Continue readingCheck out my review of DOG FLOWERS: Memoir by Danielle Geller
Continue readingAs Chicanas, Mexicans, and WOC our voices were not and have not yet been sufficiently heard in discussions on racism in the U.S. We continue our work to change this fact.
Continue reading“’Xicanisma Prophecies Post 2012 Putin’s Puppet’ tells another story. It’s hard-hitting political power. Want to read a poem that explains the political nightmare we are a part of, read this poem and memorize it and recite it at parties.”
Continue readingRest in power now, querida.
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