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A Broad, Abroad (installment, the sixth, I think…)
Came home last night, to Zurich, then took an immediate train to Basel where I gave a reading with the intensely talented, lovely and formidable Ivy Alvarez. Her new book is called Mortal, and…
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Sor Juana de la Cruz (by Jenny Factor)
Now a note from the 17th Century, when bold, brilliant Sor Juana de la Cruz (1648-1695) entered a convent in order to find time and space to read and write. Before Mexican Independence, before…
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Sandra Cisneros (by Jenny Factor)
I love Sandra Cisneros for her dualities—of our various Americas and of our Americas-of-the-mind. She is the daughter of a Mexican father and a Chicana mother. Cisneros also writes across genres—which is why in…
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Octavio Paz (by Jenny Factor)
Octavio Paz (1914-1998) is a Nobel Prize winner who, once long ago, spoke to a ragtag group of strangers in Boston, and I was there. I remember him as a short, disheveled, earnest man…
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IncreduLit.com (by Jim Cummins)
When you’re invited someplace, it’s always wise to arrive with a gift, a bottle of wine or some flowers, so I thought I’d begin my blogging week with a gift for those poets among…
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Tres Poetas for Cinco de Mayo (by Jenny Factor)
Hola, poetas! Though it’s cloudy today, no lloren*. There’s romance in the air. Here on the West Coast, local restaurants with surnames like "Cantina" and first names like "Dona Margarita" are streaming so many…
