Ariel Robello to Read at UTEP - Tejano Writers Visit the Big Apple - Chicana Play n Kansas City - Josefina Lopez in El Paso

Ariel Robello visits El Chuco

A Performance Poet Ariel Robello will visit the Sun City. Check out my review of her book My Sweet Unconditional on The Newspaper Tree.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
7:00PM
UTEP
Tomás Rivera Center
Third Floor, Union Building East

Free Admission 

Sponsored by UTEP Women’s Studies Program and
Women’s Resource Center   

Play “The Fat Free Chicana and the Snow Cap Queen: to be Staged in Kansas City

Elaine Romero’s play “The Fat Free Chicana and the Snow Cap Queen” will be staged in Kansas City, Kansas at Kansas City Kansas Community College, Nov. 9-12.

The Department of Theatre at KCKCC will present its first bi-lingual full-length production, Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 9-12.

Written by Elaine Romero and directed by Stephanie Kelman, the dram will be performed at 8pm Thursday through Saturday with a 2:30pm matinee on Sunday. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens.

The play tells the story of a young Chicana who tries to change the menu at the family restaurant after learning in college that her Mexican diet is high in fat. Her struggle to come to term with her family’s value for tradition is heightened by the admonitions of the Snow Cap Queen, the character depicted on the canned lard label who comes to her as an apparition.

Tejanos to Visit the Big Apple to visit the Big Apple: Cristine Granados, Sergio Troncoso, to read along with Rigoberto Gonzalez and others

Schedule:

Carlito’s Café, TODAY --- Wednesday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.
Pochisimo: Mexicano Americanos Readings in Nueva York
1701 Lexington Ave. NYC (bet. 106-107 sts., 6 train to 103st), 212/534-7168

For a little taste of Tejas and Califas drop by Carlito’s Café to hear celebrated Mexican American artists read from their works. The line up includes MC Rigoberto Gonzalez, Christine Granados, Erasmo Guerra , Ada Limon, and Sergio Troncoso but there will be many more talented writers, poets and artists on hand to entertain.

Night and Day Restaurant, Thursday Nov. 9 from 6-8 p.m.
230 Fifth Avenue at President Street Park Slope Brooklyn, 718/399-2162

Tejano Brooklyn Fiction: Brooklyn meets Texas! Featuring Christine Granados, Erasmo Guerra and Sergio Troncoso with other Chicano and Tejano writers.
For a little taste Texas in Brooklyn head over to the Night and Day Restaurant, Thursday, Nov. 9 from 6-8 p.m. where three celebrated Texas authors will read from their books.

The Hudson Valley Writer’s Center, Sunday Nov. 12 from 4:30 p.m.
300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York, (914) 332-5953

All three authors are featured in Dagoberto Gilb’s latest anthology Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, which will be published by University of New Mexico Press next year.

Erasmo Guerra was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. He is the author of the novel Between Dances, which won the Lambda Literary Award, and he is the editor of the non-fiction collection Latin Lovers: True Stories of Latin Men in Love.

His work has appeared in a number of journals and magazines, newspapers and anthologies, including New World: Young Latino Writers, and forthcoming in Hecho en Tejas and Fifteen Candles. Guerra is a regular contributor to The Texas Observer. He has been awarded writing grants from the Vermont Studio Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He graduated from the New School and lives in Washington Heights.

Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at New York University, she has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including, the Iowa Review, Slate, Watchword, Poetry Daily, Tarpaulin Sky, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. Her first book lucky wreck was the winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book this big fake world is was the winner of the 2005 Pearl Poetry Prize and is due out in the Fall. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her new bike and doesn't have any tattoos.

Host: Urayoán Noel was born in 1976 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has lived in New York City since 1999. He is a poet, performer, critic, translator, and author of two books of poetry: the concept book Las flores del mall (Alamala Eds., 2000 & 2003), and the recently published Kool Logic / La lógica kool (Bilingual Press). A third collection, entitled Boringkén, is forthcoming (with spoken word CD) from Ediciones Vértigo in Puerto Rico.
He has given readings and performances throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, as well as in the Dominican Republic and Perú. In collaboration with composer/musician Monxo López, he recorded the rock/spoken word DVD Kool Logic Sessions: Poems, Pop Songs, Laugh Tracts (Bilingual Press).
His work appears in numerous journals (see below) and in such anthologies as eXpresiones: generación X (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña), Los nuevos caníbales v.2: antología de la más reciente poesía del Caribe hispano (Isla Negra Eds.), and the forthcoming 24 Latino Poets (Univ. of Arizona Press).

Urayoán serves on the board of directors of Latino Artists Round Table and ‘Spanic Attack and is lead vocalist for the rock band objet petit a. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras) and Stanford University, he is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. He lives, writes, and rocks in the South Bronx, near Yankee Stadium.

Christine Granados, a native El Pasoan, is a multi-tasking specialist, or as her father-in-law puts it “smart enough to know a little bit about everything and not know a lot about anything.” She is also a sleep deprived stay-at-home mother of two sons and a freelance journalist in Rockdale, Texas.

Her collection of short stories, Brides and Sinners in El Chuco was written piecemeal at three and four in the morning or while nursing her oldest son and finishing her MFA degree.

The book was published by the “kid friendly” University of Arizona Press in 2006. She was winner of the 2006 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award, a grant given by Sandra Cisneros to further the aspirations of new writers.

Her stories have been featured in Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature, Texas Observer, El Andar Magazine, Big Tex[t] and the Newspaper Tree. She is a graduate of UT El Paso's School of Communications and the “kid friendly” MFA creative writing program at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

Erasmo Guerra was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. He is the author of the novel Between Dances, which won the Lambda Literary Award, and he is the editor of the non-fiction collection Latin Lovers: True Stories of Latin Men in Love.

His work has appeared in a number of journals and magazines, newspapers and anthologies, including New World: Young Latino Writers, and forthcoming in Hecho en Tejas and Fifteen Candles. Guerra is a regular contributor to The Texas Observer. He has been awarded writing grants from the Vermont Studio Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He graduated from the New School and lives in Washington Heights.

Sergio Troncoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born in El Paso, Texas and now lives in New York City. After graduating from Harvard College, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico and studied international relations and
philosophy at Yale University.

Troncoso's stories have been featured in many anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (W.W. Norton), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (Pearson/Longman Publishing), Once Upon a Cuento (Curbstone Press), Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press), City Wilds Essays and Stories about Urban Nature (University of Georgia Press), and New World: Young Latino Writers (Dell Publishing).

His work has also appeared in Encyclopedia Latina, Newsday, The El Paso Times, Hadassah Magazine, Other Voices, Blue Mesa Review, and many other newspapers and magazines.

In 1999, his book of short stories, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press), won the Premio Aztlán for the best book by a new Chicano writer, and the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association. His novel, The Nature of Truth (Northwestern University Press), was published in 2003, and explores righteousness and evil, Yale
and the Holocaust. Please visit his award-winning website at
www.sergiotroncoso.com.

Rigoberto González is the author of two poetry books, So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a National Poetry Series selection, and Other Fugitives and Other Strangers; two bilingual children’s books: Soledad Sigh-Sighs/ Soledad Suspiros and Antonio’s Card/ La tarjeta de Antonio, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; the novel Crossing Vines, winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Fiction Book of the Year Award; and a memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa.

The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and of various international artist residencies, including stays in Spain, Brazil, Costa Rica and Scotland, he writes twice a month a Latino book column, now entering its fifth year, for the El Paso Times of Texas. He is contributing editor for Poets and Writers Magazine, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and is on the Advisory Circle of Con Tinta, a collective of Chicano/ Latino activist writers. He lives and works in New York City.

Chicana Playwright Josefina Lopez to visit El Paso

Playwright Josefina Lopez will visit EP. Make sure to make the "Unleashing the Wild side: A Writing workshop" with Josefina Lopez.

Friday, November 10 from 1:00-3:00 pm

At the little temple (located on the EL Paso Community College Rio Grande campus),906 N. El Paso Street

(Free Parking in the lots surrounding the little

temple)

There are a limited number of seats so please call

831-2411 to sign up ahead of time!

Sponsored by: El Paso Community College & UTEP.s Women.s Studies; Theatre, Dance & Film; Creative Writing; Chicano Studies; women.s Resource Center, and Languages and Linguistics

Alberto Rios website revamped

I was flipping through the web the other day and caught on to Henry Rios’ web page and notice that it has been revamped. Pretty impressive. I miss “Red, Red, wine” though.

New Bilingual Title from CALACA Press

We mentioned this in our last “Libros, Libros” publication.” YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE. But we received an email about it so here it is again:

AQUI ESTAMOS...YA NOS VAMOS, HERE WE ARE...HERE WE GO by Bustos, Francisco J. & Wickert, Michael Cheno

$12.00 / Paper / pp.96 Calaca Press/RedCalacaArts, 2006 ISBN: 0-9717035-5-8

Poetry. Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. This bilingual collection of poetry and prose by Francisco J. Bustos and Michael Cheno Wickert explores the unique relationship between people and the places they inhabit in the San Diego-Tijuana metropolitan area. As Bustos writes in his introduction: "there are those that say that here, there are only tornadoes wherefrom shadows come, step-on, usurp and shake to then leave; or, at times, to stay and rule temporarily, scarring our homes, our streets and our communal spaces. But there are also those who are aware of the shadows that envelop us; and so we confirm, between fragments and imbalances, that here, we can also witness the birth and flowering of a multifaceted culture which navigates and struggles to liberate itself...here, mixture is the root, and the root that we bear within simultaneously leaves its mark with every step we take."

http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=0971703558

Authors of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption to read in Minneapolis, MN

Join authors of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption who will be reading from their work on November 18th from 7 to 9 pm at the Barbara Barker Center for Dance, 500 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN. more info

Carlos Morton in Poland

Just got an out of office reply from Carlos. Looks like he’ll be in Poland until Aug. 2007. Wow.