"A revolution
is coming,
not of bullets
but words."

-G. Padilla

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Interview with ​Poet Laureate of
Philadelphia, Raquel Salas Rivera
​Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-2019 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in journals such as Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Apogee, BOAAT, Circulo de Poesía, Cosmonauts Ave, Waxing Continue reading... 

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Elizabeth Acevedo | Poet X
​Xiomara, the protagonist in Elizabeth Acevedo’s debut YA book titled The Poet X, is an adolescent navigating her way through the confusions and challenges posed by both her Dominican mother’s strict Catholic expectations and Xiomara’s own inability to believe in the strength Continue reading...

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Juan Villoro | The Wild Book
​​A wondrous book of magic and adventures. The Wild Book by the renown Mexican author, Juan Villoro, is the story of a boy who moves in with his reclusive and awkward uncle, during his summer break, after the separation of his parents. The boy, Juan, finds himself Continue reading...

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Hernan Diaz | In the Distance 
​​The antebellum American West serves as the landscape for Hernan Diaz's story of a Swedish immigrant named "the Hawk" who futilely searches for his lost brother. From the violent California Gold Rush to the lawless pioneer trail, the Hawk travels Eastward, against the flow Continue reading...

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Database of Latino Poet Laureates in the U.S.

Interview with WA State Poet Laureate, Claudia Castro Luna

Intreview with Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Luis Alberto Urrea

Oldest Public Library in the Americas is in Mexico​

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