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A Moment for Luis Leal, Pioneer of Chicano Literature

Saturday, January 30th, 2010
A Moment for Luis Leal, Pioneer of Chicano Literature

THE PASSING OF “DON” LUIS LEAL marks the end of a long and fruitful life, and one lived by a pioneer in the field of Chicano Literature.

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Salud, Michael Jackson.

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD. For a second I want to talk about what he meant in my life. And how I see him. There will be plenty of time for endless conversations and accusations and equivocations and decimations of his person. I only want to mark the moment for myself.

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Flores por Brisenia

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

A CLASS ACT, these anti-immigrant Minuteman types. Whether it’s being thieves and deceiving those they raise money from, or kicking down doors and shooting little girls and their families, Minutemen brigades are hard at work defending their diseased sense of reality from the world.

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Aztec Angel [Luis Omar Salinas]

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I am the Aztec Angel
fraternal partner
of an orthodox society
where pachuco children
hurl stones
through poetry rooms
and end up in cop cars
their bones itching