Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do Not Forget to Reach" (The Ncte High School Literature Series)
Bardiac (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
I've been listening to Marilynne Robinson's Home in the car recently. (I generally have two audio books going at a time, a CD in the car and a casette for bedtime. The other right now is Sandra Cisneros reading her own Caramelo which is just great so far. I love the way Cisneros uses language.) I'm about two thirds of the way through Home and I'm of two minds about it. It's really well written in a...
BookLust (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Granta , a literary magazine, came out with an issue featuring Chicago in all its glory in October (see gorgeous art deco cover art to the left). I do not get this magazine; actually, I've never read an issue. But I like it based on principle alone. What a lofty goal, to devote a magazine to new writing across genres! I love it. And honestly, I love anything that showcases Chicago. We Chicagoans have...
Lorcaloca (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
...I would say the major difference between the previous generation of Chican@ poets/writers, and I'm speaking of primarily the generation that came out of the initial Floricanto movement of the late 60's and early 70's (Juan Felipe Herrera, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Ricardo Sanchez, etc.) was that they did not have Chican@ literary mentors. We did/do. Now, you can open up a book of poems by Tim Hernandez...
Lorcaloca (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Emmy Pérez wins 2009 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award The Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral (ACDM) Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2009 ACDM Award: poet Emmy Pérez (McAllen, TX). This year’s award totals, $8,912. Emmy Pérez is the author of a poetry collection, Solstice (Swan Scythe Press, 2003). She holds degrees from Columbia University and the University...
LETRAS LATINAS BLOG (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Emmy Pérez wins 2009 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award The Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral (ACDM) Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2009 ACDM Award: poet Emmy Pérez (McAllen, TX). This year’s award totals, $8,912. Emmy Pérez is the author of a poetry collection, Solstice (Swan Scythe Press, 2003). She holds degrees from Columbia University and the University...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Hey all! Hope your weekend was wonderful. Below are some posts that we’ve been reading from around the web. Feel free to leave what posts you read/wrote this past week; we’d love to hear from you! From the blogs Theater Review: The House on Mango Street—about the play based on the book by Sandra Cisneros. Reviewed at Viva La [...]
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
And I'm not talking about the book either! Tanya Saracho of Teatro Luna , has adapted Sandra Cisneros's classic coming of age tale, The House on Mango Street , into a play. Yeah, I know, like wow. Amazing eh? I went to see it on Friday night for a fundraiser for the Chicago Foundation for Women's Latina Leadership Council . It runs until November 8th and tickets are already limited, so get some today....
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street" is one of the great Chicago novels, a cascade of memory, idea and budding sensuality, and one of the finest books penned about finding, understanding, keeping, leaving and (eventually) returning to your place. At once nostalgic and clear-eyed, it also is a vivid portrait of a neighborhood, a snapshot of coming of age in the Chicano Chicago of the...
The Theater Loop (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
THEATER REVIEW: "The House on Mango Street" ★★1/2 Sandra Cisneros’ “The House on Mango Street” is one of the great Chicago novels, a cascade of memory, idea and budding sensuality and one of the finest books penned about finding, understanding,...
Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Eduardo Galeano, who was born in Uruguay in 1940, has written big, thick books. Open Veins of Latin America (1973), which Hugo Chávez of Venezuela handed to Barack Obama in May, hoping it would teach him history, is more than 300 pages. Then there's Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy: Genesis, Faces & Masks, and Century of the Wind that adds up to nearly 1,000 pages. More recently, he...
TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Underworld -- Don DeLillo Yes, the novel sprawls over the years and the characters in sideways fashion, but DeLillo has managed sprawl to good effect before, and here he does not slacken in skill. The search for the baseball, about which not much is known is except rumor purporting to be History, big H, lays the ground beautifully for a series of stories linked by the search for a usable , recent past...
Carol Peters (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
[my thanks to Emily Lloyd for this list] Despite my raging joy that Heather McHugh has won half a million dollars, I deplore prize giving of all kinds because of the implied value judgments, politics, social bias, cultural pressure, category exclusions, etc. Below is a chronological list of poets who have won the MacArthur. How many of these poets have you heard of? How many have you read? How many...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Move over, New York: the Windy City has a vibrant homegrown theatre scene, including companies such as Steppenwolf, and is behind the brightest work on Broadway With a head count that hovers around 200 producing theatres in the city and its suburbs, Chicago has a thriving, collaborative theatre scene. But ever since the New Yorker's AJ Liebling dubbed us the "second city" in 1952, we've...
Secretista (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Growing up I hated reading. But now, I don't mind it so much. In fact, I kind of enjoy it. Over the summer I read 4 or was it 5(?) books. I don't remember, ha! I might have also not liked reading as a kid because my dad always tried to stuff any book down my throat. I'm not rebellious by nature, but if you have your father constantly chastising you for not reading, you won't want to read. Nevertheless,...
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