List of My Book Titles. Thank you. May 15, 2022 – Posted in: Blog
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.
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
Continue readingNot posting here this summer much–not because I’ve take the summer off or because there isn’t any news. Getting ready to launch my first collection of poetry in many years. The early reviews are excellent. Am excited to be able to do a few in person signings, cautiously since we’re far from free of the pandemic. I am grateful to the team working with me. For ARCS or review copies for your literary journal or…
Continue readingThe ever widening controversy and heated debates on how to label ourselves in 2021 if we are from countries south of the border or the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, or descended from there, if we have inherited genes that cause us to identify more with the legacy of colonizers or of the colonized and once enslaved, or both depending on the day and circumstance, how we look at gender and sexuality…
Continue readinghttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/11/us-migrant-children-opaque-network-facilities
“I Heard the Cries of Two Hundred Children”
I heard the cries of two hundred children
bleating in the desert.
They were not two hundred but two thousand…
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