July 2011
3 posts
Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities
Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities
Edited by Katharine Coles
Literature/Poetry
How does one bring poetry to a community? And who is going to make it happen? In response to these questions posed by the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Katharine Coles and a cadre of poets and artists provide this essential guide and inspiration. Blueprints creates for poets and arts organizers the sense...
Come to “La Luz” Wednesday, July 27 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Featuring Performances by Julia Alvarez, Helena… http://fb.me/16YGacK2v
ire'ne lara silva reading from 'furia'...with...
ire’ne lara silva reading from ‘furia’…with special guest poets: Joe Jimenez, Rachel Jennings, and jo reyes-boitel.. The Twig Book Shop ~ 200 E. Grayson Street, Suite 124 ~ San Antonio , TX 78215
Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM:
Free and open to the public.
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Bio’s: ire’ne lara silva is the author of ‘furia,’ a collection of poetry, and two...
June 2011
3 posts
release of Rachel Jennings' chapbook, Knoxville...
Rachel Jennings’ chapbook, Knoxville Girl: The Walk to the River, has now been officially released by Finishing Line Press and is available on the press website. Also, Rachel has available copies.
Catching up with ire’ne lara silva...
New website: http://www.irenelarasilva.webs.com
furia by ire’ne lara silva
(cover artwork by Moisés S. L. Lara)
now available on amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/furia-irene-lara-silva/dp/0983043507/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1307116919&sr=8-1
also at www.mouthfeelpress.com
for signed copies, electronic press kits, or to schedule a reading, please contact:...
Macondo part of San Antonio's literary scene
http://sacurrent.com/on-the-books-part-four-sa-8217-s-literary-scene-often-overlooked-1.1158735
May 2011
4 posts
http://www.macondofoundation.org/writer_profile.html http://fb.me/13arAKARR
Read Macondista profile of Rupert Reyes
http://www.macondofoundation.org/writer_profile.html
Jessica Helen Lopez will read from her new book,...
Published by West End Press of Albuquerque, NM, “Always Messing With Them Boys” is the the first collection of poetry by Jessica Helen Lopez. She is scheduled to read from her book at La Resistencia bookstore in Austin, TX on June 14 Tuesday. Sponsored by Red Salmon Arts, this reading kicks off a 15-city book tour that includes such venues as the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, Green...
The first reviews are in for Toni Margarita...
“A dreaminess marks Plummer’s debut collection featuring troublesome first love among young Latinos in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley.”—Publishers Weekly
“Plummer’s interconnected stories are set in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles….Her poignant stories bring alive one multicultural family yet speak universally.”—Booklist
April 2011
4 posts
Rachel Jennings reading at San Antonio College
On April 29, 4:30-6:00pm, Rachel Jennings will be reading at San Antonio College, Moody Learning Center, Room 400-B, from 4:30-6:00pm. She will be joining fellow SAC English faculty members Jen Knox and Colin Shanafelt. Rachel will be reading from her forthcoming chapbook, Knoxville Girl: The Walk to the River (Finishing Line Press, May 2011). Come to the fourth floor of the SAC Library Bldg....
Rachel Jennings to read at Pecan Grove Press Event...
Joining other poets, Rachel Jennings will be reading from Elijah’s Farm (Pecan Grove Press, 2008) at Barnes & Noble at La Cantera in San Antonio as part of a benefit book fair for Pecan Grove Press on April 28th at 7 p.m. If you cannot attend, you can still help the press by shopping on-line at BN.com and entering the book fair ID# (10443802) at checkout (from 4/28 through 5/3). PGP...
Teatro Vivo- Festival Latino de Nuevas Obras in...
Teatro Vivo in patrtnership with The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center and Austin Script Works presents Austin Latino New Play Festival - Festival Latino de Nuevas Obras Teatrales de Austin • Thursday - Saturday April 21-23, 2011 A teatro festival featuring workshop productions of three new works by Austin playwrights, Raul Garza, Erica Saenz and Roxanne Schroeder-Arce. ...
Quiet As They Come by Angie Chau
has been named a Finalist for the Commonwealth Club’s 80th Annual California Book Awards in First Fiction.
has been named a Finalist for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award in Fiction.
March 2011
3 posts
Leslie Larson's Breaking Out of Bedlam
Hi, all. Breaking Out of Bedlam is now available in paperback. Please help me spread the word. I’ve been working with senior centers and in particular with Adult Day Health Care services here in the Bay Area as a result of connections I’ve made with readers who identify with my protagonist, Cora Sledge, who’s put in a senior facility against her will.
The French edition, Bons...
"In Memory of John Updike" by Rachel Jennings in...
Rachel Jennings’ poem, “In Memory of John Updike: 1932-2009,” has been published in the winter 2011 issue of Christianity and Literature (vol. 60, issue 2): 287-88.
THE BOLERO OF ANDI ROWE receives wonderful advance...
“Heartfelt stories of girls who ache to live in any other world than the one given them and who disastrously believe falling in love is the only way to get there. American tales for the new millenium.”—Sandra Cisneros
“The quiet intensity of Toni Margarita Plummer’s prose masks the unexpected destinations of these narratives. Each story is an astonishing and insightful journey that...
February 2011
4 posts
6 days left to get in your first-year application for the 2011 Macondo Writers’ Workshop.
Quiet As They Come by Angie Chau, March 2011...
Dear Friends,
If you celebrate the lunar new year, Happy Year of the Cat (Vietnam) and Year of the Rabbit (China) to all of you who like me are often looking for a reason to celebrate and rejoice! Starting March 1, 2011, I have a slew of reading dates throughout Northern California in cities including Oakland, Berkeley, Sausalito, Sacramento, Stockton, Merced, and San Jose. Whether at a...
Ignacio Magaloni reading with panel at Guadalupe...
Hello, Macondistas!
Here are links to the “100 Palabras” exhibit at the Guadalupe Gallery: I invite you to drop by before mid-March to view the pairings of writers and painters. Tonight, if you’re about town in San Antonio, you can catch me reading and commenting on the poem “Feathered,” which is paired with work by Louis Vega Trevino. Panel starts at 7 p.m.; the...
Rachel Jennings chapbook, Early Sales
Early sales have begun for Rachel Jennings’ new chapbook, Knoxville Girl: The Walk to the River (Finishing Line Press).
In today’s difficult publishing environment, the final fate of a chapbook’s publication often depends upon early sales. Publication of Knoxville Girl is contingent upon pre-sales of at least fifty-five copies. If any of you have an interest in purchasing the...
December 2010
1 post
Hot off the Press. Here’s a line up of performers playing at Macondo’s annual fundraiser. This year Sandra… http://fb.me/LfNRcMMk
November 2010
1 post
Shin Yu Pai on the National Book Critic Circle's...
Shin Yu Pai is featured on the National Book Critics Circle blog as part of Rigoberto Gonzalez’s Small Press Spotlight series: http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/small_press_spotlight_shin_yu_pai/
October 2010
6 posts
A story on iPhone
Just wanted to let you know a story of mine was recently published by Ether Books (from the UK) on iPhones and iPads. It “went live” 21 Oct. (Which I thought was very exciting—considering I don’t have an iPhone myself!) If you have an iPhone, you can download the Ether Books app for free under App Store/Books and access the story (Dance on the Turquoise Whale) which has a...
publication announcement of Shin Yu Pai's...
Dear Macondistas,
Just wanted to share an announcement on the publication of my new poetry collection, Adamantine, from White Pine Press. The website for the book is http://www.whitepine.org/catalog.php?id=232
and a trailer for the collection which I produced in Agnes Chavez’ digital storytelling workshop can be viewed here:
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Q: "You say that your mentor is author Sandra...
The Women’s Eye Interviews: Angie Chau On Her Passion To Write About The Vietnamese Immigrant
Cut and Paste-
http://thewomenseye.com/2010/10/05/interview-angie-chau/
First-year applications are open for the 2011 Macondo Writers’ Workshop in San Antonio, TX July 24-30, 2011…. http://fb.me/JbGLn5O2
First-year applications for 2011 Macondo Writers’ Workshop are open. Guest faculty: Julia Alvarez, Helena María Viramontes and Manuel Muñoz.
ADAMANTINE makes SPD Recommends List
My new book “Adamantine” has made SPD Recommends list:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/List/53/Lister.aspx
September 2010
3 posts
My op-ed about the floods in Pakistan in the...
“The poor are the hardest hit by devastation in Pakistan.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7196453.html
My op-ed about the floods in Pakistan in the...
“The poor are the hardest hit by devastation in Pakistan.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7196453.html
"Yesterday's People" by Rachel Jennings in Texas...
Rachel Jennings’ poem, “Yesterday’s People,” has been published in the Texas Observer…the Aug. 19 print issue or online (Aug. 31). www.texasobserver.org/poetry/yesterdays-people.
August 2010
6 posts
When a witness forgets
Hola Macondistas,
Just want to share the link to a piece about my mother’s Alzheimer’s. She was the only one witness to my sexual abuse, but her dementia has erased that memory, and more. I explore what that means in an essay in D magazine’s September issue.
http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/D_Magazine/2010/September/Alzheimers_Role_Reversal.aspx
John Phillip Santos's 'Empire' Reviewed in The...
Macondista Vicente Lozano reviews John Phillip Santos’s latest book, “The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire”.
Publisher's Weekly Starred Review for Quiet As...
Macondista Angie Chau’s debut fiction receives a Starred Review in Publisher’s Weekly.
Serenely stirring stories from Vietnamese-American Chau track the breaking asunder of an extended Vietnamese boat family newly arrived in California in the 1970s. Fleeing the Vietcong and relocated to San Francisco, the family of aunts, uncles, and cousins has assumed catchy Western names like...
Read an interview with Angie Chau- this month’s featured Macondo Writer, written by fellow Macondo member Lorraine… http://fb.me/F1FjXXhb
Native Literatures: Generations, vol. 2 now online
http://www.nativeliteratures.com/ now up! Featuring Macondista Deborah Miranda, with work from her manuscript, Bad Indians. If you do not subscribe, type in username FlyingTurtle, password Deborah. Enjoy!
GLOW OF OUR SWEAT receives another review on the...
Francisco Aragón’s newest collection of poems, translations, and prose was recently reviewed here:
http://pansypoetics.blogspot.com/2010/07/on-aesthetics-of-sentimental-love-in.html
July 2010
9 posts
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano Interviewed by Pluma... →
Check out Liliana Valenzuela, Trey Moore, and...
Tune in tomorrow, July 21, 2010, to KO-OP Radio (FM 91.7 Austin, Texas) from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. to hear BORDERLANDS: TEXAS POETRY REVIEW guest editor Liliana Valenzuela and poets Tony Beckwith, Trey Moore, Rachel Jennings, and Marcelle Kasprowicz as they read some of their poetry and talk about this special translingual issue, with artwork by Liliana Wilson. Listen live at 6pm Central...
Buy your tickets early for our special Friday night performance at Jump-Start Performance Co. featuring Elena… http://fb.me/EOOIRKvH
Come to “Nuevo Mundo- Reading, Música and Dance” Wednesday, July 28 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Featuring: John… http://fb.me/zAmIDr0o
Francisco Aragón publishes an article, and has his...
Macondista Francisco Aragón has recently published an article which introduces the work of the Spanish poet Gerardo Diego (1896-1987). Specifically, it introduces Manual de espumas/Handbook of Foams, an avant-garde poetry collection published by Diego in 1925. The piece also includes ten of Francisco’s translations from the collection. The piece is available...
Trey Moore is SAHearts Artist of the Month http://fb.me/DSEj3Fgd
Gregg Barrios’s story in the San Antonio Current. http://fb.me/D2OOuVqh
Gregg Barrios's recent piece on David Montejano on... →
Trey Moore Featured as San Antonio Artist of the... →
June 2010
2 posts
2010 Macondo Award Winners Featured in "The Fine... →
Macondistas Honored by 12th Annual International...
On May 25, 2010, the International Latino Book Awards were announced in New York City. Created in 1999 by the non-profit organization Latino Literacy Now, the awards recognize literary excellence in the worldwide Latino community. Amongst this year’s recipients were a number of Macondo writers!
Best Children’s Picture Book – English
What Can You Do With A Paleta? - Carmen Tafolla -...
May 2010
1 post
Macondo Writer's Workshop Special Seminar
Elena Poniatowska will be leading a special seminar at the Macondo Writers’ workshop this year.