Earlier this week, Junot Diaz became the second U.S. Latino to win a Pulitzer prize for fiction for his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The novel had already earned the 2007 National Books Critics Circle Award.
Diaz, 39, was born in the Dominican Republican, and arrived in the U.S. in 1974. He [...]
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
~ Erich Fromm
I am often asked to facilitate creative writing workshops and educational residencies. Along with the invitation is the question: “Can you teach the students to write poetry?” Over and over again my answer is: “Only if you and they are willing to jump [...]
“Raza Linda, ya volví
me fue muy bien por allá
surge otra dimensión
ya no soy de acá
There’s tristeza/there is joy
pero ya todo acabó…
hay que empezar otra vez,
life has just begun…”
- From raúlrsalinas’s book, Un Trip Through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursion: Because I Should (Una Breve Escape a Las Tierras Indias, for Elda)
Please do not [...]
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