Jesse Tijerina(a short narrative of what led me to become an educator) “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”Hermann Hesse Why do we look at things the way we do? Is it due to the mothers and the fathers of our mothers and fathers and their wisdom? They made fun of mi jefe’ […]
ONLINE FIRST-YEAR APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!Submit an application to join the Macondo Writers' Workshop in 2010. Leslie Marmon Silko will be leading the Famosa Workshop. Sandra Cisneros will also be co-teaching a workshop with Lourdes Portillo in her yellow office Casa Xochitl. Application deadline is January 29, 2010. First-year online applications are ava […]
Literary El Paso. Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, ed. Ft Worth TX: 2009.ISBN 978-0-87565-387-7Michael SedanoIn an era of ebooks and Kindles, iPhones, Blackberries and all manner of text-delivering digital device, Literary El Paso seems a throwback to an earlier era and a substantial reminder why one enjoys reading printed books in a cozy chair. Undeniably, portab […]