Home Sweet Home Chicago–2 in person events this week & 1 virtual October 13. This week review in Newcity. Register for these events. Also I’ll be signing books at the Seminary Coop for a Guild virtual event on Oct 13th. Signed copies available at any of these locations. Thank you, Chi & all my wonderful friends there!
Continue readingThis is a little of what’s coming up with the new book. It’s on sale now. The last years have been difficult for all, the world and planet. I am grateful my testimonio in verse came together and is being received with love and care.
Continue readingMY BOOK OF THE DEAD (Sept1) ZOOM, appearance & interview queries pls contact publicist, DeeDee@Debartlo.com. Thanks!
Continue readingI hope readers all over will find solace and comfort in the affirmation of the storms we’ve been through and that we are pushing through.
Continue readingJET is calling for manuscripts for the Vol. 9, No. 5, May 2021 issue. Submission deadline: April 5, 2021
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 readingWe are not the women who’ll be hailed by White institutions for our poems. We are among the mothers whose hearts, laid heavy with history and tradition left to dark skinned women for 500 years did our best.
Continue reading¡Qué viva Tan Lejos de Dios/novela por Ana Castillo! Adelante So Far From God: The Movie. Some teasers here regarding the treatment:
Continue readingPeace 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 readingFor more than forty years, Chicana author Ana Castillo has produced novels, poems, and critical essays that forge connections between generations; challenge borders around race, gender, and sexuality; and critically engage transnational issues of space, identity, and belonging. Her contributions to Latinx cultural production and to Chicana feminist thought have transcended and contributed to feminist praxis, ethnic literature, and border studies throughout the Americas.
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