http://www.marchabrazopress.com Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:50:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On August 13, 2010 at 6:30-9:30 there will be a public presentation of Cortez's poetic work.  You're welcome to join us at 1538 W. Cullerton Street, (near St. Pius Catholic Church at Ashland Ave.) The venue is the Carlos & Dominguez Fine Arts Gallery where an exhibition of one of Mexico's best ... http://www.marchabrazopress.com/?p=90 He was born and raised in Southern California where he graduated from California State University, Long Beach. He published and edited The Tequila Review from 1977-79. His first collection of poems, McLife, was published in 2005 by Main Street Rag Press. Extensively published in literary magazines, Vargas has been featured ... http://www.marchabrazopress.com/?p=89 Frank Varela's Caleb's Exile (ISBN 978-1-59608-634-0) Spanish translations by Angel Pagan and prologue by Egberto Almenas was published in 2009 in Puerto Rico by the ELF Creative Workshop. Copies are available by contacting us with a money order or check for $14.00, includes postage. Make the money order or check ... http://www.marchabrazopress.com/?p=88 Our relatives spoke many languages on this vast continent before the English, French, Spanish, or others from across the waters came to settle in Turtle Island/Itzachilatlan the past 500 years. The message the speaker shares with us certainly applies to the Xicano and all Native poets and writers. http://www.marchabrazopress.com/?p=78 Xicanos growing up in pre-offical bilingual USA also experienced similar treatment depicted in this moving testimony. MARCH Abrazo Press encourages bilingual poets and writers to continue developing a body of written and performed work our future survival requires. http://www.marchabrazopress.com/?p=77