Gloria Anzaldua
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from: “The Postmodern Llorona” by Gloria Anzaldúa
from: “The Postmodern Llorona”The young woman is not afraid of La Lloronashe has become La LloronaHer high-pitched yell is curdling the blood of her parents,raising the hair on the back of their necks.Most days she floats through air on a natural high.If she ever remembers the machowho abandoned and betrayed herit does not render her Continue reading
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National Poetry Month 2024
Amalia Ortiz, Ana M. Fores Tamayo, Andrea Gibson, Assata Shakur, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, César Leonardo de León, Claudia Rankine, Cynthia Cruz, Dunya Mikhail, Gloria Anzaldua, H. Melt, Ire'ne Lara Silva, Jane Mead, Juan Felipe Herrera, Kamala Platt, Katana Smith, Lauren Badillo Milici, Molly Brodak, Natalie D-Napoleon, National Poetry Month, Ocean Vuong, Olivia Gatwood, Pat Mora, Poem, Poetry, Priscilla Celina Suárez, PW Covington, Rossy Evelin Lima, Sabrina Benaim, Tracy K. Smith, Valarie Wallace, Vijay Seshadri, Warsan Shire -
Indoctrinated As Straight
“There ought to be a time in one’s adult life which is dedicated to rediscovering the most important readings of our youth. Even if the books remain the same (though they too change, in the light of an altered historical perspective), we certainly have changed, and this later encounter is therefore completely new. –Italo Calvino, Continue reading
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Dear Gloria
What follows is a slight rewrite of a class assignment. The assignment was to write a response letter to “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” by Gloria Anzaldúa which can be found in the pages of A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, an anthology edited by Continue reading
2024 Presidential Election, Activism, Adolf Hitler, Borderlands/La Frontera, Cheerie Moraga, Dinesh D’Souza, Donald J. Trump, Ernst Röhm, germany, Gloria Anzaldua, history, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Michael Brown, Nazi Germany, Politics, Protests, Racism, Sean Hannity, This Bridge Called My Back, Trayvon Martin, Vivek Ramaswamy, Women of Color, Writing As Healing -
“To Live in the Borderlands” by Gloria Anzaldua
On 28 March 2022, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley unveiled the Gloria Anzaldua literary landmark just outside the university library’s doors. It is nestled underneath a tree, and open for the public to see even if the library is closed. I read Anzaldua’s work as a young man, and that person isn’t who Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 