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EP: No Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.Life is short, and I’ve shortened minein a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,a thousand deliciously ill-advised waysI’ll keep from my children. The world is at leastfifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservativeestimate, though I keep this from my children.For every bird there is a stone thrown at…
EP: A Small Needful Fact By Ross Gay
Is that Eric Garner workedfor some time for the Parks and Rec.Horticultural Department, which means,perhaps, that with his very large hands,perhaps, in all likelihood,he put gently into the earthsome plants which, most likely,some of them, in all likelihood,continue to grow, continueto do what such plants do, like houseand feed small and necessary creatures,like being pleasant…
Southern Drive
It’s a single fallen white aspirin in an empty cobalt skyThe only white button on a newly washed hyacinth sweaterA puncturing nightlight against bonded matte wallpaper thatCharlie can stare at for hours as he rides; doing 95 on I 95 The high beams swatted bugs, grilling them on the grill as Marc Anthony’s voice cascaded…
NBC’s: The best Latino books, according to Latinx writers
1. “Mi Papi Has a Motorcycle” by Isabel Quintero (author), Zeke Peña (illustrator) 2. “Love War Stories” by Ivelisse Rodríguez 3. “Native Country of the Heart” by Cherríe Moraga 4. “Don’t Date Rosa Santos” by Nina Moreno 5. “Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border” by Octavio Solis 6. “Ordinary Girls: A Memoir”…
EP: Rubia (Blonde) by Andres Bello
¿Sabes, rubia, qué gracia solicitocuando de ofrendas cubro los altares?No ricos muebles, no soberbios lares,ni una mesa que adule al apetito. De Aragua a las orillas un distritoque me tribute fáciles manjares,do vecino a mis rústicos hogaresentre peñascos corra un arroyito. Para acogerme en el calor estivo,que tenga una arboleda también quiero,do crezca junto al…
Books About Latin History
The Conquest of the New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by Miguel Leon Portilla Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico by Camilla Townsend Bolívar: American Liberator by Marie Arana The Tupac Amaru Rebellion by Charles Walker José Martí: A…
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH Recommended Books
• “The Undocumented Americans” by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio • “Our America. A Hispanic History Of The United States” by Felipe Fernández-Armesto • “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez • “In the Time of the Butterflies” by: Julia Alvarez • “Being Brown” by Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question • “White but Not…
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