Emerging scholars: publication call March 26, 2021 – Posted in: Blog, recent
JET is calling for manuscripts for the Vol. 9, No. 5, May 2021 issue. Submission deadline: April 5, 2021
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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Continue readingSharing Perspective: Ana Castillo Uses Autobiographies to Inspire Students The ZOOM program with Diablo Valley Community College in N. California was both a pleasure and an honor. I appreciate the student writer in the school paper. It isn’t my custom to correct facts in public interviews. But when giving advice to aspiring young writers and students in writing classes, it’s important to get my message right. It’s important but not critical. Still, today, it’s an…
Continue readingFeeling the Spirit: Tues., Oct. 20, 6-7:30 pm PST. Authors Kathleen Alcala & Ana Castillo in convo live–on spirituality, religion, culture & writing. Free registration.
Continue readingNice bit of news this week to have a poem, ‘My First Cancer Poem’ nominated for recognition. (A revised version is included in the new collection MY BOOK OF THE DEAD. More news about that very soon!)
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