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		<title>San Antonio Local Publishes &#8216;Schizophrenic Messiah&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fashionation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An apocalyptic tale set in modern day New York City, “Schizophrenic Messiah” is the debut novel from San Antonio native Marcos Lerma. The text ambitiously grapples with the consequences of divisive politics, post-9/11 cynicism, and the Bible. At the heart of the story is Jacob, who moves to Queens with his aunt after his mother and father are killed in Iraq. When Jacob’s aunt is then killed in a mysterious train wreck, he is adopted, growing up to be a relatively well-adjusted young man. That is, until the day he begins to see a dark, winged being following him, and is promptly institutionalized for schizophrenia. As Jacob’s messianic identity is revealed, we see him healing the sick and turning water into wine, which only serves to escalate the battle between Jacob and his doctor. The text’s exposition does not always fully develop the complex world presented, which complicates character development. However, while rehashing historically recurring religious and political debates, the text uniquely confronts that age-old question: if Christ were alive today, who would he be and would we recognize him? By offering us a relatively normal, flawed human being who feels utterly lost in contemporary society, Lerma delivers an engaging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natasha Tretheway named U.S. Poet Laureate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/natasha-tretheway-named-u-s-poet-laureate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday the U.S. Library of Congress announced one of the freshest voices in contemporary poetry, Natasha Trethewey, as the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. Tretheway hails from Mississippi (of which she is concurrently state poet laureate) and at 46 years old is one of the youngest to hold the position. Trethewey is currently a professor of English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. She is the second Southerner to hold the position besides Robert Penn Warren (who held the first position as laureate in 1986) and also the second African American since Rita Dove. Her journey to the office on Capitol Hill this fall will be eventful as Tretheway will be the first to take residence in the Poetry Room at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Her three collections combine the public with the private, speaking for the unspoken, and center mostly on memory. Her first book Domestic Work won the Cave Canem Prize and in 2007 she won a Pulitzer for her collection Native Guard, whose title refers to the regime of Louisiana Native guards that fought for the Union during the Civil War. Her poems are combination of forms, much like a stylistic mixtape, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elva Treviño&#8217;s &#8216;Barefoot Heart&#8217; and Guadalupe&#8217;s experience of &#8216;HER&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/active-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the month of February, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center presents HER, a four part artist series combining dance, music, photography, and words. From now until the Saturday viewers are invited to share a tale, a fable, or a memory to celebrate the women around them for a series titled &#8220;HER: Words.&#8221; Write on the walls and watch the stories evolve into a collection over time. Free noon-5pm, Tues-Sat Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center 1300 Guadalupe (210) 271-3151 guadalupeculturalarts.org Through February 25 The San Antonio Public Library and the UT Health Science Center Libraries present author Elva Treviño Hart. Her memoir, Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child, is a harrowing tale of prevailing against the barriers of race, gender, and class. Born in Pearsall, Hart was the youngest of six children and grew up with parents who worked in beet fields as migrant farm workers. Her memoir is a story of struggle and perseverance as Hart went on to earn advanced degrees in theoretical mathematics and computer science/engineering. Barefoot Heart is a bridge between Hart&#8217;s past and present life. She will be reading on Thursday and Friday. Hart&#8217;s memoir has been selected as the 2012 One Community/One Book selection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UTSA poet/prof Bonnie Lyons reads from &#8216;Bedrock&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/utsa-poetprof-bonnie-lyons-reads-from-bedrock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lit-URL is excited to present to you an audio outlet by local writers. The first to kick off our reading series is Bonnie Lyons. Bonnie Lyons is a poet and a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has taught as a Fulbright Professor at the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki and at the Central and Autonoma Universities in Barcelona. In addition to publishing numerous articles and interviews, Lyons is the author of In Other Words, Hineni, Meanwhile, Henry Roth: The Man and His Work, and co-author of Passion and Craft. Her poetry has been published in The Paris Review, Contemporary Literature, and New Letters. Lyons reads poetry from her newest collection Bedrock. Gemini Ink Feb. 3, 2012 1. “To Miami Beach 1949” 2. “Captain Midnight and the Evil Eye” 3. “Sylvia and Irving” 4. “Two Red Balloons” 5. “First Love” 6. “Woolworth&#8217;s Miami Beach”]]></description>
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		<title>New year, fresh ink: SA poet laureate nominations, writing classes, goodbyes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/new-year-fresh-ink-sa-poet-laureate-nominations-writing-classes-goodbyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new year is upon us and LIT-url would like to enter the Year of the Dragon with a fresh start. And what better way to kick off 2012 than finding San Antonio’s first poet laureate? Nominations are still up for grabs (till January 18) for the position. In addition to promoting the ars poetica, the selected bard will serve a two-year term and receive an honorarium of $3,000.]]></description>
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		<title>John Howard Griffin’s &#8216;Black Like Me&#8217; turns 50 — and you can join the discussion</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/john-howard-griffins-black-like-me-turns-50-and-you-can-join-the-discussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have questions about John Howard Griffin’s devilishly daring journalistic approach? Now is the time to ask. Join Gemini Ink and Trinity University for a panel discussion honoring the 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of Griffin&#8217;s Black Like Me. Born in Mansfield, Griffin was known for writing about racial inequality. With funding from Sepia magazine, Griffin was able to go deep undercover for the investigative role of a lifetime. Using dyes to change his skin color, he underwent a physical and mental transformation in an attempt to live the life of an unemployed black man in the Deep South. Black Like Me is a nonfiction account of his six weeks traveling through predominantly black areas of different cities. Roberto Bonazzi, the author of the critically acclaimed biography on Griffin Man in the Mirror and John Howard Griffin’s literary executor, will be on the panel with Michael Nye (photographer), Gary W. Houston (urban activist, lecturer in political science and geography at UTSA), Carmen Tafolla (poet, writer, lecturer at UTSA), Anne Wallace (artist), and Cary Clack (writer). The book was originally published in 1961 but was re-released by Wings Press for the Griffin Estate Edition. Copies of the book will be available for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Any Color But Beige: Living Life in Color</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/any-color-but-beige-living-life-in-color/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fashionation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Montreal-based international color marketing expert, Catherine Larose. She recently visited The Twig Bookshop in San Antonio’s historic Pearl Brewery for a meet-and-greet and book signing. Any Color But Beige: Living Life in Color is an honest femoir documenting Larose’s ethnically diverse background, her globe-trotting career, lifestyle, and relationships. “The book itself is what I call a circular memoir,” says Larose, “it starts off with my very colorful Irish-Italian-American childhood. Then growing up and my life as an adult—during which I lived a very beige and secure marriage in the suburbs; my beige existence.” One of the most significant changes in Larose’s life came one day when working in Paris. While gazing at the Paris sunset she “wanted to fold it up, put it in my pocket and take it home with me.” Larose discovered that something was missing from her life—color—and didn’t want to continue living the rest of her life in beige. “I made some major changes to put color back into my life, which is very ironic because I sell color for a living,” Larose begins, “so here I am putting color into everyone’s lives as a result of my job, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading getaways: &#8216;Book&#8217; your Book Getaway now</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/book-your-book-getaway-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While no place on earth can rival the landscapes our imaginations are able to conjure, don't physical traveling and book traveling sound like two great tastes that go great together?]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Wendy Barker</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/an-interview-with-wendy-barker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wendy Barker, UTSA’s Poet in Residence and writing teacher, spent nearly a decade trying to publish Nothing Between Us, her novel in prose poems that dives deep into race relations, infidelities, drugs, food, and other sensory experiences of the 1960’s. The publishers all gave her the same line: it’s neither a novel nor really poetry. She took a hour to talk with LIT-Url about her book’s various taboos, the value of writing and why she really thinks that publishers wouldn’t bite all those years. Tell me what it is you &#8220;do.&#8221; I think it’s strange to say, [adopts lofty tone and pose] &#8220;I&#8217;m a poet.&#8221; Both [her parents] loved literature and poetry so from the time I was a baby, they both together would read poetry to me. It was one of the few ways in which we were in harmony. Poetry is the center of the periphery of my life. And it&#8217;s not an escape the way people think. It&#8217;s about exploring, trying to understand the self and others, growing beyond one&#8217;s tract house in Tuscon [where she grew up]. Writing is…a sort of prayer. &#160; What’s the point of studying English? Most people have a vocational view and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Meowmorphosis&#8217;: Existentialism, transformation and kittens</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/transformation-existentialism-and-kittens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider this: imagine that Gregor Samsa, instead of being transformed into an insect, is transformed into a...kitten. That changes the flavor of the story altogether. For one, a kitten is way more complex than an insect. Also, a kitten is a helluva lot cuter.]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Lan Samantha Chang</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/an-interview-with-lan-samantha-chang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lit-URL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Current contributing writer Adam Coronado gifted Lit-URL with a glowing review of Lan Samantha Chang&#8217;s All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, a novel chronicling four artists grappling with following their dreams while leading their (often) obstructive lives. This month, Lit-URL got a moment to discuss with Chang the story’s ultimate questions, why she thought no one would read it, and varying reader responses to the characters. The Wall Street Journal quoted you saying that you thought no one would read All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Why? I began writing this book in 2006, shortly after I became director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and seemingly (although, in reality, not at all) came to the end of my life as a student. At that point, I’d spent fifteen years considering how we “learn to be a writer.” By this, I mean that I was thinking about how we learn not only the process of writing, but the practice: the daily discipline, the benefits, and the drawbacks of writing seriously. Because my explorations on this subject felt very personal, I drafted this book under the assumption that no one would read it. It was a private project. In 2008, I finished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Antonio: Brian Dettmer, aka The Book Surgeon, is in</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/san-antonio-brian-dettmer-aka-the-book-surgeon-is-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dettmer explains how his work is driven by a desire "to open a conversation [that will allow us to] think about book's current role in media culture, its history and its future."]]></description>
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		<title>Local Literati to Shine During Luminaria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luminaria isn’t just about visual arts, dance, theater, and media arts, y’know. San Anto has a fine selection of literary artists, too. In fact, quite a few well-known and budding local writers will be out in full force throughout Luminaria. A few weeks ago we spoke to Marian Aitches, one of Luminaria’s literary arts artist chairs. Aitches, a poet, expressed her excitement about helping put the literary arts side of Luminaria together. One of the standouts of the literary lineup is Writers Light Up the Night, a reading featuring Bryce Mulligan, Carmen Tafolla, Barbara Ras, Naomi Shihab Nye, and with the Express-News’ Cary Clack as master of ceremonies. “It is very rare for Carmen Tafolla, Bryce Mulligan, and others to be on one stage,” Aitches said. “For people interested in literary arts this is a big deal.” Aitches couldn’t stress enough how important the above writers are not only in San Antonio, but nationally and internationally. Mulligan runs the San Antonio-operated Wings Press, which was recently profiled in the Huffington Post. Tafolla, who Aitches said is in her opinion, the “Mother of Chicano Literature,” received the American Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literary last year for her work What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Antonio, the NEA and books: to read or not to read</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem isn't that San Antonians don't read or that Texans don't read or even that Southerners don't read. The problem is that Americans across the country have fallen out of love with books.]]></description>
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		<title>Chang&#8217;s new book a nod to anyone tortured by their own aspirations</title>
		<link>http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/revelations-on-life-love-and-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ladies of Lit-URL are taking a break this week, and have enlisted the help of the Current&#8217;s contributing writer Adam Coronado for a short and sweet book review. Coronado reviews Lan Samantha Chang’s novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (W. W. Norton &#38; Company, 2010). I write about Lan Samantha Chang’s newest novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost with a conflicted excitement. The novel candidly conveys the experience of making art in ways enlightening and unsettling. Art creates strange allies. Chang makes that fact abundantly clear when she introduces Roman and Bernard, two grad school students united by being poets and the fact that they don’t smoke. Roman quietly smolders with ambition, irreverence and cocksureness that mask his insecurity as a writer. He dubs his classmates “acolytes” and refuses to workshop his poetry with them until the final week of the semester. Bernard revels in the romance of the poetic life. He takes pride in poverty long after grad school and corresponds via letter with poets much more established and/or successful than he, while dedicating his life to one long poem, which bears the same name as the novel. Both men are students of Miranda, their college’s celebrated poet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Most Literate Cities: San Antonio not one of them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A society that is not only literate but nurtures sound, expansive literacy practices is a society that will enjoy civic, cultural, economic, and intellectual health. ]]></description>
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		<title>Playwright and poet Celeste Guzman Mendoza on &#8216;El Sabor&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is kicking off 2011 with the 1st Peek Staged Reading Series, featuring San Antonio poet, performer and playwright Celeste Guzman Mendoza. Her never-before-staged play,“El Sabor del Pasado,&#8221; focuses on family and identity, with a healthy sprinkling of lightheartedness. Mendoza, a San Antonio native now living in Austin, will conduct a Q&#38;A with the audience following the performance. Give us a brief summary of &#8221;El Sabor del Pasado.&#8221; Celeste Guzman Mendoza: Like any good novela, the play begins with a death and ends (almost) with a wedding. But unlike the novellas, this play is about one family and the struggles they experience, some of them brought on by the others. The siblings, who range in age from 60s to late 30s, are coming to terms with the recent death of their mother. Rivalries among the siblings and old grudges come to the surface and are almost saved by the wedding of the youngest of the brood. The play deals a lot with identity, what do you hope the audience learns from the performance? I hope that people, especially those of us who are in a multigenerational family, will come to understand a bit more about where our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gregg and the Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month the Twig Book Shop hosted the release of Gregg Barrios’ newest book of poetry, La Causa. The collection of work is a powerful testament of the Chicano Movement. Barrios invited local literary and theater luminaries to read selections from La Causa, and his previous collection of poetry, Puro Rollo. In September, Barrios and the gang invaded Krazy Vatos Emporium for a similar reading, featuring the likes of Carmen Tafolla and Anthony Flores as documented by our very own Contemporary Xicana. The following clips feature local poet Trey Moore and actor Rick Frederick reading Barrios&#8217; works. Got any local literary leads? Send ‘em our way, e-mail liturl@sacurrent.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Daughter of Immigrants &#8211; Deluxe Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[María Antonietta Berriozábal, a woman whose name is synonymous with community organizing and political movement, will release her memoir in May 2011, chronicling her family’s experience of immigrating to the United States and her subsequent rise to become the first Latina to serve on the city council of a major U.S. city.]]></description>
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		<title>Aztec Calendar Coloring Book: “A Gift to Children of All Ages”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aztlan Libre Press is the San Antonio-based small independent press run by Anisa Onofre and Juan Tejeda. The duo is driven by their dedication and preservation of Chicano literature and art, which has enabled them to work on projects that not only speak to them but also the community. Aztlan Libre’s first publication, Tunaluna, earned rave reviews and introduced a new generation of Chicano readers to seminal poet, alurista. Their current publication, Aztec Calendar Coloring Book/The 20 Day Symbols of the Aztec Calendar with their Names in Nahuatl, Español, and English, is a notable departure from their inaugural publication but promises to be “a gift to children of all ages, and all colors.” The 20-day signs included in the coloring book are comprised of black and white computer-enhanced line drawings of the Aztec symbols representing crocodile, wind, house, lizard, and more. The following are a few questions posed to Anisa and Juan in regards to their recently published coloring book. This is Aztlan Libre Press’ second publication, what inspired you both to tackle the task of putting together a coloring book? AZTLAN LIBRE PRESS: We felt that it was important that our daughter Maya Quetzalli, and all of our children, [...]]]></description>
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