This interview with poet, Vincent Cooper, is part of a series with Latinx authors. Cooper is a Xicano poet from Los Angeles, CA, now living in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Infidelis, Zarzamora, and the chapbook, Where the Reckless Ones Come to Die. He is a former United States Marine. His work …
Jennifer Maritza McCauley’s short story collection, When Trying to Return Home, takes complex characters and situations and weaves them into a tapestry that provides the reader with an emotional journey. The collection demonstrates McCauley’s dexterity as a writer as she shifts voices, styles, and points of view. In McCauley’s first book, Scar On / Scar …
Latinx books climbed new heights this year, and at Latino Stories, we were fortunate to have not one, not two, not three, but four of our staff members publish books in 2022. And not just any books. These are books that deserve to be gift-wrapped for anyone you want to impress. León Salvatierra‘s To the …
If you teach Latinx Studies or any sort of American studies, you need to know this name. More than that, your students need to know it. Pedro Albizu Campos is one of the most famous and most influential Puerto Rican figures in the history of the island, yet he is also one of the least …
When Natalie Diaz, the gifted Latina and Mojave poet, won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, she joined an elite group of poets that includes (among others): Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Penn Warren, Anne Sexton, Rita Dove, Sylvia Plath, and …
