Remembering Gloria: A Night of Poetry!

Looking forward to this important event to honor Gloria Anzaldúa in the Valley thanks to community activists and the Palmview branch library.

Remembering Gloria: A Night of Poetry!

McAllen, TX

We invite the public to join us in a celebration of Gloria Anzaldúa’s legacy, as we present an evening of her poetry on Thursday, April 26, 7:00 PM at the Palm View Branch Library. Various people from the Valley will take a turn reading Anzaldúa’s poetry out loud. A member of the Anzaldúa family will attend in her honor. Afterward, share your thoughts on Anzaldúa during a reception with light refreshment.

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was born in the Rio Grande Valley in 1942, attended Pan American University (currently UTPA) and became a major influence in redefining Chicano/a identity and language. Although she left behind an internationally acclaimed legacy, including books of poetry, essays, and fiction, she has been neglected in her own backyard – the Rio Grande Valley.

This event is free. Bring your family and friends and find out about the Rio Grande Valley’s secret treasure!

For more information on Remembering Gloria: A Night of Poetry, contact the Palm View Branch Library at 688-3322.

Contact: Palm View Branch Library
Contact Person: Priscilla Celina Suarez
Telephone Number: 956-688-3322
Fax Number: 956-688-3366
Email Address: suapri@yahoo.com

Poetry Pachanga this Saturday

The public is invited to come celebrate National Poetry Month with the largest collection of Rio Grande Valley poets ever assembled during the first-ever Poetry Pachanga on Saturday, April 21 from 6 to 10:30 p.m. Visit http://www.elzarapepress.com/popa.html for details on featured readers. Free admission.

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WHAT: "Poetry Pachanga"
WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 2007
TIME: 6-7 p.m. (UTPA Creative Writing Students)
7 to 10:30 p.m. (Featured Readers)
WHERE: The UT-Pan American Library Auditorium
for more info contact Daniel García Ordaz @ 956-358-7211 or wegotwords@hotmail.com
ONLINE: http://www.elzarapepress.com/popa.html

EPTimes article by Christine Granados

article about a NY Times editor's recent talk at UTEP... how many of these big lecture series at universities on the border continue to undermine and outright ignore Chicana/o literature.

"When the guero is finished with his talk, I buy his book so I can ask him what role he thinks Chicano literature is going to play in American letters. And because I asked straight up like that, he couldn't bring up Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who we both know ain't Mexican-American. The pobre had to answer something, and you know what he told me? He just doesn't see it having a big role in literature, such as other media and the Internet." --from "Who knows the future of literature..." in today's EPTimes by Christine Granados, author of Brides and Sinners in El Chuco.

cesar chavez march slideshow

Slideshow of the Cesar Chavez day march in El Paso yesterday from the EPTimes. For stories, essays, and poems by migrant farm workers, please visit BorderSenses' Memorias del Silencio: Footprints of the Borderland, a wonderful literary project under the direction of writer and teacher Minerva Laveaga.

In the slideshow, also notice the many signs in protest of the downtown plan (a plan that will displace many Segundo Barrio residents in the destruction). For more on the opposition to the downtown plan, visit Paso del Sur.