Highway 90 stretched out, icy and black, with dirty gray snow melting on the edges of the curb. With precious cargo, my friend Gregg Barrios by my side, I kept my eye on the road as I took him home from his dialysis appointment. It was SNOW-VID in San Antonio, Texas, and six inches of …
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 …
The Tyrant is Dying: No Conga LinesBy Carlos Eire, Ph.D. News of Fidel’s brush with death brought the news media to my door, literally and figuratively. The journalists were not alone. Even long-lost friends suddenly surfaced, eager to hear what I had to say about this turn of events. Among those who came knocking, was the New York …
Absent Fathers and Lost Lovers: The Romance of Conquest in Margarita Engle’s Skywriting and Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cubanby Myra Mendible, Ph.D. “Every person of the Caribbean is an exile from his own myth and his own history, and also from his own culture and his own Being, now and always. . . .”–Antonio Benitez-Rojo–The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the …
[A version of this article first appeared in Latino Studies Vol. 5, Issue 1 (Spring 2007) Issue] Martín Espada, the author of eight collections of poetry, including his most recent The Republic of Poetry (2006), was interviewed at the United States Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Connecticut, on March 24, 2005. The recipient of …
