Sí, pendeja. We do care. August 26, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

Einstein Visa Awardee Melania Trump (who worked illegally in this country and after her powerful husband arranged a visa which thereby deprived a truly brilliant person of a visa, and immediately after, she brought over her parents, who last night said she came here, studied and worked hard to get her citizenship) and who mainly regards each official business appearance as a fashion photo shoot may have been going for the Elizabeth II WWII,…

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Massacre of the Dreamers 20th anniversary edition August 23, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

Includes new introduction by Clarissa Pinkola-Estes and an Addendum essay by Ana Castillo, “The Real and True Meaning of the Virgin of Guadalupe,” recipient of the ASA’s Gloria Anzaldúa Award for independent scholarship. Castillo revisits her reflections on Chicana activism, spiritual practices, sexual attitudes, artistic ideology, labor struggles, and education-related battles. Her book remains a compelling document, enhanced here with a new afterword that reexamines the significance of Our Lady of Guadalupe.” BUY NOW “Castillo…

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La Tolteca 2.0 #4 Aug.21, 2020 August 21, 2020 – Posted in: Blog, recent

Issue #4, August 21, 2020 Welcome to our fourth issue. Featured here are Chi-Town creatives! So much is happening in Chicago this summer. We send our love & hope for continued strength to that American of American cities. Included in this issue we introduce Creative Guadalupe Chairez. Also included poets Marcelo Castillo, Mary K. Hawley and Mike Puican, Academic and Curandera Laura de los Santos, and Writer Sandra Jackson-Opoku We are celebrating life in…

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MY BOOK OF THE DEAD: Selected, Published Poems (by Ana Castillo) August 16, 2020 – Posted in: Blog, recent

Poems from MY BOOK OF THE DEAD (unpublished collection by Ana Castillo, 2020). This group of poems has been previously published in various books & literary journals. (Some alignments may be off due to cut & pasting. (No comments on edits or grammar, please. This is being done.). I’m happy to share & thank you for reading. Positive vibe comments here are always welcome. All the line drawings are mine. (Please don’t reproduce w/out my…

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A Storm Upon Us, poem by Ana Castillo, 2015. August 10, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

And when the storm is upon you,

when it has destroyed your homes,

and your children are not fine

and your dreams of golden roses and bright days are nowhere

but in the pages of a storybook,

we will be content in our heavens eating peeled

grapes, sipping fine wines from our vineyards of abundance,

sitting on our thrones,

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La Tolteca 2.0 Issue #3. Aug. 7, 2020 August 7, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

ISSUE #3, August 7, 2020 VERY EXCITED TO DELIVER THIS THIRD ISSUE OF LA TOLTECA 2.0. Poets, artists and teachers featured here live now in Jamaica, Mexico and California. Through community involvement, art, poems and a desire to record reflections is their shared empathy for humanity and the planet that is all our home. Contributors in this issue: Opal Palmer Adisa, John Kaine, Ed J. McCaughan and Joey Villareal. Here we go, amigos, amigas, dam-x…

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BEYOND MACHISMO August 1, 2020 – Posted in: Blog, recent

“In the popular imaginary, the word machismo become the social signifier of all that is male chauvinism.”

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Two Men and Me July 26, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

We quaffed a few whiskies. They knew. I knew.

I wasn’t that kind of girl. Instead, we set out to do

a three-way poem. Tu primero–said Bolaño.

“What?” Bukowski said. “No comprendo.”

LA TOLTECA 2.0. #2 July 24, 2020 July 22, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

LA Tolteca 2.0. #2 July 24, 2020 …

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Call for new submissions–deadline 7/20! July 13, 2020 – Posted in: Blog

We were energized and happy to receive submissions for the first edition of La Tolteca 2.0. We are now open for new submissions. Please read GUIDELINES in this blog. Once you got that down, send to: ana@anacastillo.net. Short staffed right now on volunteers we won’t be able to answer queries that are already posted here. Three features in La Tolteca 2.0 at this time: We will be looking for selfies with masks and original photos…