The storm comes and goes, returns. Next time, harder. We don’t even bother
with shelters. We give it new names, each time, further fire and rain.
We mourn.
We start again. It could have been you or me, we say, dying
in public beneath a baton’s blows falling amidst a spray of a sniper’s bullets,
but it wasn’t. We go on.
Disaster has happened to someone else.
–(excerpt) A STORM UPON US
To all of you, blessings to your homes in the seasons to follow, that you may all have places to rest your heads, food enough to eat and store for the winter and a storage of words to pull out in the dark long nights of winter and weave blankets of poetry to warm the world during the long nights of winter.
Continue readingCMR: How is the rhythm of the desert different than living in a big city? The quality of light? In what ways has living in different parts of the country and world influenced your writing and activism?
Ana Castillo:
Wow, best question.
How many books have I authored to date, various
genres and including edited and translated? It’s not a competition in this business nor do I think quantity over quality.
While Omicron hit our household as it did with countless others over the holidays it isn’t the lead story in this writer’s life as we enter 2022.
Continue reading“We take a deep dive with the original Xicanista and her poetry in her latest work, “My Book of the Dead” which is timely both in the age of COVID-19 and during the Halloween season…” KJZZ
Continue reading“La palabra escrita ha sido un lugar exclusivo de un tipo particular de personas: hombres blancos, de clases altas y bien educados. Con el tiempo, un puñado de mujeres “excepcionales” han sido admitidas en tan exclusivo círculo.”
Continue readingAs various virtual events go live on line I’ll post. Thank you, poetry friends for responding with cariño and appreciation to my new work. I’ll do my best to reach as many of you as possible.
Continue readingIn-person free event, Chicago. Register here: https://www.dom.edu/arts-minds/university-events/ana-castillo
Continue readingOne hour virtual writing workshop with me coming up Oct 16h. Link below to register. Donations (suggested $25.) benefit Latina 50 Plus.
Workshop: Count Your Losses: On Grief and Aging.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/latina-50-plus-wellness-program-ana-castillo-writing-workshop-tickets-167330410763
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