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

-G. Padilla

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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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José Ángel Araguz | Until We Are Level Again 
​​Until We Are Level Again by José Angel Araguz unwinds in poems anchored to the everyday, letting simple language carve out intimate details. The beauty of the collection is found in understated lines that seed themselves in Continue reading...

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5 Contemporary Chilean Authors You Should Know
​Isabel Allende (1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre of "magical realism", is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts 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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