Last Sunday’s reading and conversation, “Places We Call Home: Exile, Change and Collective Futures,” at Avenue 50 Studio, featured local poets William Archila, Cynthia Guardado, and Janel Pineda. Together, they explored how U.S. neocolonialism continues to shape the Salvadoran American experience—and the poets who write powerfully about it. Continue reading Places We Call Home
The Salvadoran diaspora has become successful and acclaimed writers. Many of these writers–Cynthia Guardado, Raquel Gutiérrez, William Archila, Yesika Salgado–call California and Los Ángeles home. These writers “‘[w]ithout hesitation,…are speaking truth to power, without the need to mediate themselves through a white, U.S.-centric gaze.'” Continue reading How the Salvadoran Diaspora Became a Literary Juggernaut
A book review on Inglewood native Cynthia Guardado’s recent poetry collection “Cenizas.” Continue reading Family History: Cenizas by Cynthia Guardado
The release party for Cynthia Guardado’s second book of poetry, Cenizas. It took her 10 years to complete. Continue reading The Release of Cenizas
FROM: Blog Talk Radio
This week’s episode of Poetrunner features Carolina Rivera Escamilla—Educator, writer, actor, and documentarian—Born in El Salvador. Exiled in Canada in the mid 1980s. Organize events as a cultural promoter in Los Angeles since the 1990s. Has been published in Analecta Literary Arts Journal, Texas Austin University, Hostos Review CUNY University, Pen America/ Strange Cargo Anthology. Collateral Damage: Women Who Write About War Anthology, University of Virginia Press, as well as in the Migrant Anthology, Somewhere We Are Humans By HarperCollins press. The Broad Museum, among others. Her book of short stories, entitled …after… was published in 2015.World Stage Press.
Continue reading “Carolina Rivera Escamilla on Poetrunner”By Brian Dunlap
Poets and book lovers braved L.A.’s rush hour traffic. It was a Thursday. February 27th. The destination was Diehl Marcus & Company in Hollywood, a Curio Dealer and Event Space of finely curated antiques, home decor and accessories from around the world. The crowd arrived for Ingrid M. Calderon-Collins’ release party for her poetic memoir Let The Buzzards Eat Me Whole.
By Scott Neuffer
FROM: Trampset
My wife tells me not to talk about it: her trauma. She survived the dirty wars in Peru. If you talk, you die, she tells me. People don’t talk about it. The dead are dead. The living go on. Sorry, it’s not my place, I say. But these ghosts. I can feel them.
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