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Interview with Mayra Santos-Febres
I started writing when I was very, very young. I was five years old. Actually, I started learning how to write by writing poetry. My mother was a teacher of Spanish and my father was a teacher of history in high school, my mother in elementary school. And because she knew me, and because she was a teacher, she started playing
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8/5/20
Interview with International Award-Winning & Best-Selling Author Isabel Allende
Today we will be speaking with the international, award-winning and best-selling author, Isabel Allende. Isabel Allende is the author of 23 books which have been translated into 42 languages. She has sold over 74 million copies worldwide.
She is the recipient of numerous
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5/18/19
Interview with Quechua Pop Singer Renata Flores Rivera
Renata Flores Rivera is a Peruvian singer whose cover of the song
The Way You Make Me Feel
by Michael Jackson, in Quechua, became viral through social media. Quechua is the native language of the Incas in South America and, like most of our indigenous languages
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12/16/18
Interview with Norma Elia Cantú
Norma Elia Cantú
has published poetry, fiction and scholarly essays. She has received two Fulbright-Hays fellowships to do research in Spain. Her novel,
Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
, received the Aztlán Prize in 1996. Other projects include
co-edited and
edited
work such as,
Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios
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7/5/18
Interview with Washington State Poet Laureate Claudia Castro Luna
Named the 2018-2020 Washington State Poet Laureate, Claudia Castro Luna was born in El Salvador and is the first immigrant and person of color to assume the role. She recently ended her tenure as the first Seattle Civic Poet
(2015-2017), a program administered by
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2/28/18
Interview with Writer, Activist and Professor Tony Diaz
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, founded Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say in 1998. He is the leader of the Librotraficantes-champions of Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom, and Performance Protest. He also hosts the Nuestra
Palabra Radio Program on 90.1 FM KPFT Houston
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7/3/2017
Interview with Singer and Song Writer Renee Goust
Renee Goust is a Brooklyn based, bicultural singer and composer who has recently tackled social issues through her songs such as violence towards women as well as other social issues in the U.S. and Mexico. Her current single
La Cumbia Feminazi
has recently become a big hit on social media
and is now available
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5/28/2017
"Consciencia" is not about "I" but "we" | Interview with Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe Moraga (1952-present) is a Chicana writer, feminist advocate, poet, essayist, playwright, and cultural activist. Daughter of a Mexican American mother and an Anglo-American father, she was raised in southern California
in the days when the civil rights, gender
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3/11/20
Interview with Cincinnati Poet Laureate Manuel Iris
Manuel Iris is a Mexican Poet and an educator recently named Poet Laureate of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio. Iris received the National award of poetry Merida (Mexico, 2009) for his book
Notebook of dreams
, and the Regional award of poetry Rodulfo Figueroa for his book
The
Disguises of Fire
(Mexico,
2014)
.
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12/2/19
Interview with New York Times Best Selling Author Erika Sánchez
Erika L. S
ánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, she is the author of a young adult novel,
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter,
a National Book Award Finalist, and the poetry collection,
Lessons on Expulsion
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12/15/18
I
nterview with Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is an activist poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist and artist. Writing for over 50 years, her work explores the lives of the working-class. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and prose, the Texas Medal of the Arts, the Texas Medal of the Arts, a MacArthur
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10/1/18
Interview with Pulitzer Prize Finalist Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea
(Tijuana, Mexico) is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his landmark work of nonfiction
The Devil's Highway
. He is also the bestselling author of the novels
The Hummingbird's Daughter, Into the Beautiful North
, and
Queen
of America
, as well as the story collections
The Water Museum
,
a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist
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2/25/2018
Interview with Angela Cervantes, Author of Disney's Coco: The Junior Novelization
Angela Cervantes is an award-winning author whose debut book,
Gaby, Lost and Found
(Scholastic 2013), was named Best Youth Chapter book by the International Latino Book Awards and a Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of 2014.
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12/31/2017
Interview with the United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
The following is a Communal Interview organized by Olga García: Questions from different folks for our Estimado Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.
You must feel the words — while having some kind of inner melody going, not like a piano
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7/7/2017
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