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LETTERS TO OUR MAMIS Y PAPIS: LOVE FOR QUEER MENTORS [by Christopher Soto & friends]
I wanted to do a fun / campy post where some of my queer poet friends could celebrate the people who have helped them develop as writers and humans. (Where we could celebrate…
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Hold Me Before I Disappear: On Duende & Death Culture [by Christopher Soto]
“Duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from…
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Hold Me Before I Disappear: On Duende & Death Culture [by Christopher Soto]
“Duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from…
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UNDOCUPOETS PETITION: OUTCOMES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS [by Christopher Soto]
Alternatively Titled: Liberal Victories, Radical Failures In January of 2015, Javier Zamora, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and I started the Undocupoets Petition to protest first book contest discrimination. We launched an article online with…
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UNDOCUPOETS PETITION: OUTCOMES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS [by Christopher Soto]
Alternatively Titled: Liberal Victories, Radical Failures In January of 2015, Javier Zamora, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and I started the Undocupoets Petition to protest first book contest discrimination. We launched an article online with…
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Happy 4/20 Mom! [by Stacey Harwood]
My Mother's Hands, April, 2013 My mother was a grade school teacher for over 30 years. She taught both 3rd grade and kindergarten in the public school system and was one of those teachers…