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He is the founder of Pasta, Poetry, and Vino, an ongoing poetry reading series in the lower Rio Grande Valley. His work appears in Bordersenses, RiverSedge, Brooklyn & Boyle, La Bloga, Voices de la Luna, and Poets Responding to SB1070, among many other venues. His new collection, Jazzhouse, is forthcoming from Prickly Pear Press. You are not merchandise to be locked up in container poemsĮdward Vidaurre is the author of Chicano Blood Transfusion (FlowerSong Books), Insomnia (El Zarape Press), Beautiful Scars: Elegiac Beat Poems (El Zarape Press), and I Took My Barrio on a Road Trip (Slough Press). We’ll protect your women and children poems You are worth more than any labor you do poems Let’s face the four directions together poems
What would be life without view of the ocean? Keepers of open land, dieticians and bankers. In that dark electricity magenta and green,Īt funerals. They don’t promise anything, but they feel a certain The solitary have lovers who ruin themselves To the beaches and peaks and the quarries. His motto is, “I mold minds and write rhymes!” He currently teaches English at a Southern California High School. Moreno received both his Bachelor of Arts degree in English, and his Master of Education degree, from the University of La Verne. His Chicano ideals motivate much of his work and are often reflected in his poems. As a young man growing up in Chino, California, he used poetry as a catalyst to find peace, love, hope and healing. He believes poetry to be an instrument of awareness, resistance, rebellion and civil disorder. Jacob Moreno perceives poetry as a voice for the oppressed, the impoverished and the broken spirited of the world. “The Cacophony of Marching Monarchs Butterfly wings flutter” También escribe poesía y literatura infantil. Sus cuentos se han incluido en antologías y sus obras de teatro se han puesto en escena varias veces. Ha publicado varios libros incluyendo Los ciclos íntimos, La vida paralela, Horas de visita, Ink Reactions/Reacciones en tinta y Portentos de otros años. Tijerina en cuento, el Premio Estatal de Cuento del ISSSTE, y el Premio Internacional de Dramaturgia Manuel Acuña. Fue becaria del CONACULTA y del Consejo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Tamaulipas. Rebecca Bowman nació en Los Ángeles radicó durante muchos años en Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. “The Cacophony of Marching Monarchs Butterfly wings flutter” By Jacob Moreno Rebecca Bowman, Jacob Moreno, José Chapa, Edward Vidaurre, Kai Coggin LBFF organizers are going through the motions to protect a brand name at any cost. I can't imagine anyone who spent a couple hundred dollars for a table will have much good to say. Word of mouth is critical to marketing success. What could have been a family event, a book festival, was none of those. Marketing failed the Los Angeles audience. Latino Book and Family Festival used to be worthy of its name. Del Alma Publications marketing director, Marcia Rodriguez, tells me the press has five titles in its catalog. Alma González Pérez poetry collection, Cantos del alma y el corazón, Poesía Original, and a food-based abecedarian for Spanish English learners, ¡Todos a comer! A Mexican Alphabet Book. Two representatives came from Texas, presumably to attend last night’s prize affair, and show two titles.
Only one publisher took a space, Del Alma Publications, LLC. Alma González Pérez, right Marcia Rodriguez