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 …
Latino Stories, established in 2006, is looking for new volunteer talent to join its team and help us with our mission of promoting Latinx literature. We are looking for contributors, interviewers, books reviewers (and columnists with pitches). If you are a graduate or undergraduate student, writer, educator, or a scholar who has an interest in …
This banner year continues as we add two talented Latinx authors, Patricia Engel and Naima Coster, to our notable books. We will continue to update this list throughout the year. Already one of the 2021 Amazon Best Books, this book has the signature writing of one of our past top ten New Latinx authors, Patricia …
The Tenth Anniversary of the Américo Paredes Book Award Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College The Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College is accepting nominations for its 2021 Américo Paredes Book Award. Scholarly books published in 2020 must address a subject or topic within Chicanx and Latinx Studies. The …
You will not find pictures of the two civil rights leaders together. That’s because the two never met in person. However, they did communicate with each other and interacted through telegrams. In 1968, when Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union, went on a 25-day fast as a way to affirm his commitment …
