The Metropolitan State College of Denver President's Office of Institutional Diversity and the Department of Chicana/o Studies present the
4th Annual Lalo Delgado Poetry Festival - "Man on a Mission" - April 25, 2011, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM at St. Cajetan's Event Center, Auraria Campus.
Metro will celebrate Delgado’s life and career (he taught there for seventeen years) with a variety of events led by Chicano scholar
Joe Navarro and punctuated with appearances by Delgado’s family, Metro officials and Lieutenant Governor
Joseph Garcia, along with numerous readings and tributes from local poets. All events are free; for more information, call Metro’s Chicano Studies department at 303-556-3124.
PROGRAM: Lalo: Man on A Mission
MC Adriana Duran-Hodge
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Prayer, Jim Garcia
9:15 - 9:30 a.m. Blessing Ceremony - Azteca Groupo Chimaltonalli
9:30 - 9:45 a.m. Introductions - Amanda Duran
9:45 - 10:00 a.m. Lalo's Poem "La Llorona: Ronnie Ortega
10:00 -10:30 a.m. Guest Poet: Joe Navarro, Chicano Scholar
10:30 -11:00 a.m. Dr. Luis Torres, MSCD Deputy Provost Academic Affairs
Poetry Readings - Lalo's Great-Grandchildren: Lalito Ayala, Mariah Jo Bradley, Daniel Jugret, Evelyn Ramirez, Aliana Inez Velasquez, Michael Alexander Vidal
11:00- 11:15 a.m Poets-
11:15 - 11:30 a.m. Dr. Steven Jordan, President MSCD
11:30 - 11:45 a.m. Colorado Lt. Governor Joseph Garcia
11:45 - 12:15 p.m. Lunch - Grupo Folklorico Sabor Latino
12:15 - 2:00 p.m. Poets: Ricardo Lafore, Amadeo Miera, Dr. Ramon del Castillo, Ken Arkind,
Renee Bryant, Sarah & Ryan Jones
2:00 - 2:30 p.m. Award of Lalo Delgado Scholarships: Professor Steven Cantu In the spring issue of
AARP VIVA, Carlos Fuentes expounds on a wide variety of topics. Here are a few quotes from the magazine:
On retiring: “Retiring is the worst thing you can do for your mind. Then what? You ride around on a bicycle? You have to work until the very end.”
On his grandparents’ legacy: "They gave me two things. On one side was a severity, punctuality and discipline; the other gave me joy and creativity.”
On the importance of education: “Wit
Good stuff this edition and it's a long one - Ernesto Cardenal makes a rare visit to Denver for a celebration of his new book. XicanIndie XIII is up and running - my post, thanks to Tanya over at Su Teatro, includes a schedule, summaries of the films, trailers, and details about the festival, now a mainstay of the Denver cultural scene. Finally, two close friends of La Bloga are up for a book award - how cool is that?
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The Origin of Species and Other Poems
Ernesto Cardenal
translated and introduced by John Lyons
foreword by Anne Waldman
Texas Tech University Press, April, 2011
[publisher's website text]
Ernesto Cardenal, widely acknowledged as Latin America's greatest living poet, continues to craft works of striking beauty, as demonstrated in this collection’s title poem, an exquisite meditation on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Among the twenty new poems included here are many appearing for the first time in English, some for the first time anywhere. Cardenal has also added new cantigas, or cantos, to supplement his book-length masterpiece, Cosmic Canticle. “There is order even in the foam of a torrent,” affirms Cardenal. Evolution, natural selection, existence, and purpose figure into this complex symphony. In his characteristic blend of poetry, politics, and prayer, he grapples with elemental questions of life, delivering a thought-provoking, joyous vision of an earthly paradise in which humanity must find its role and calling.
Cardenal epitomizes what makes literature live in Central America today. —Booklist
One of the world’s major poets. —Choice
Cardenal is a major epic-histocial poet, in the grand lineage of Central American prophet Rubén Dario. —Allen Ginsberg
One of the most influential (and controversial) poets of his generation. —Robert Hass
Praise for The Origin of Species and Other Poems
The crowning work in the long career of this well-known Latin American poet . . . [whose] revolutionary fire is still evident, but it's subsumed in the subjects of the poems rather than manifest[ed] in slogans. —Ed Ochester
A Whitmanic embrace and . . . a timely political resonance with a particularly difficult and broken-hearted new century. —Anne Waldman, from the foreword
The author of more than thirty-five books, many translated into multiple languages, Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1965. His studies with Trappist monk Thomas Merton and his involvement with the Sandinista movement in his home country have informed his writing and political activism. He lives in
Un Floricanto Adelanto, Sept. 14 @ Corazón del Pueblo
On Sept. 14th,
Corazón del Pueblo, LA Eastside art space, will host a
Floricanto Adelanto to welcome poets & writers in LA for the official
Festival Flor y Canto: Yesterday • Today • Tomorrow. The reading will be styled after the recent Floricanto held at the Mission Cultural Center which doubled as the 40th Anniversary Celebration of
El Tecolote newspaper, the Bay Area's community arts and literature publication. Poets & writers will be introduced briefly and given 4 - 5 minutes to share. There will be no features or headliners. Poets will be assigned slots on an alphabetical basis. Corazón del Pueblo is located at 2003 East 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90033. We hope it will be an opportunity for younger writers and spoken word slingers from our communities across LA to become familiar with and be mentored by more established writers from across the state and the nation while stimulating the creation and development of an annual
Eastside Festival de Libros y Letras.Libros Schmibros, a community lending library and used bookstore located directly across the street from Corazón del Pueblo at 2000 East 1st, has graciously offered to provide space for book tables and signing opportunities for those writers who have books to sell or promote. Authors will be allowed to sell their own books at Libros Schmibros free of charge. Consignment sales opportunities for publishers will also be provided at the traditional rates. Writers and book vendors will be responsible for bringing their own tables.
Since space and time are limited, both the poetry/spoken word showcase slots and the book vending opportunities are being made available on a first-come, first-served basis. For local poets, priority will be given to those who have previously performed at Corazón del Pueblo.
The cut off date to sign up for the reading is Tuesday, September 7.
Participating poets/writers confirmed as of 9/1/10
Francisco X. Alarcon Leon Arellano Johnny Berrios Sammy Carrera Frank Escamilla John Carlos de Luna Reina Alejandra PradoAbel SalasSincerely,
Corazon del Pueblo: Arts, Education & Action Collective
[email protected]TO SIGN UP FOR THE READING, CALL 213.321.7115
TO RESERVE SPACE FOR BOOK VENDING/SIGNING, CALL 310.924.9821
CELEBRATING THE POWER OF LITERATURE TO PROMOTE PEACE,
DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE ANNOUNCES 2010 FINALISTS
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25 pieces of a chicano mind is the first work of "chicano" literature i owned. sabes que? i'd love to see kids memorize and recite "stupid america" and "el inmigrante".