Nuestra Palabra Presents: Tell Your Story featuring Sandra Cisneros
🚨ICON ALERT🚨ICON ALERT🚨 Sandra Cisneros is coming to the Houston Texas this Sunday!!!
🔥🔥Nuestra Palabra continues it's 25 year celebration and the last of it's NP LIT SUMMER programming (it's still balmy in Houston y'all😂) with an incredible opportunity to meet the icon of the literary world, our very own Sandra Cisneros, this October 15th in Houston Texas at Talento Bilingue Houston at 333 S Jensen Dr, Houston, TX 77003 in Houston's historic Second Ward.
We will have a star studded event with appearance's by award winning poet Jan Beatty, Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez, Poet Zelene Pineda Suchilt, original art works by Laura Lopez Cano... all to benefit Nuestra Palabra.
Sandra has been a towering figure in the literary world and her appearance in Houston Texas should not be missed. From her world renowned debut novel "The House on Mango Street" to her latest critically acclaimed work "Woman Without Shame", be there to see her and even meet her as she shares the stage with Tony Diaz at this special event.
NP Spotlight: Dr. Mehnaaz Momen's "Listening to Laredo: A Border City in A Globalized Age"
Nuestra Palabra's Tony Diaz, Literary Curator for the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Latino Bookstore, spotlights Dr. Mehnaaz Momen's LISTENING TO LAREDO: A BORDER CITY IN A GLOBALIZED AGE. Join us on our Livestream on our platforms Monday, August 28th, 2023 at 6:30 PM CDT for a lively discussion on place, identity, and the changing conditions of an American border city.
Dr. Mehnaaz Momen is an associate professor in the Department of Social
Sciences at Texas A&M International University and the author of THE PARADOX OF CITIZENSHIP IN AMERICAN POLITICS AND POLITICAL SATIRE, POSTMODERN REALITY, AND THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.
Dr. Mehnaaz Momen's new book, LISTENING TO LAREDO: A BORDER CITY IN A GLOBALIZED AGE, gives an in depth look at the burgeoning Texas town that has grown. Nestled between Texas and Tamaulipas, Laredo was once a quaint border town, nurturing cultural ties across the border, attracting occasional tourists, and serving as the home of people living there for generations. In a span of mere decades, Laredo has become the largest inland port in the United States and a major hub of global trade. Listening to Laredo is an exploration of how the dizzying forces of change have defined this locale, how they continue to be inscribed and celebrated, and how their effects on the physical landscape have shaped the identity of the city and its people. Bringing together issues of growth, globalization, and identity, Mehnaaz Momen traces Laredo’s trajectory through the voices of its people. In contrast to the many studies of border cities defined by the outside—and seldom by the people who live at the border—this volume collects oral histories from seventy-five in-depth interviews that collectively illuminate the evolution of the city’s cultural and economic infrastructure, its interdependence with its sister city across the national boundary, and, above all, the strength of its community as it adapts to and even challenges the national narrative regarding th
Juneteenth Literacy Celebration
Juneteenth is coming up and we have two community superstars who want to make sure literacy is part of the celebration by making sure our people have a choice in both the books they read and where and who they purchase from.
On Monday May 22nd at 730 PM CST, guest host Rodrigo Bravo Jr. @mrbravo365 welcomes two book barons who are changing lives one page at a time. At a moment in time where our books are being marginalized, discouraged, even banned, it’s crucial we support these book traffickers to ensure we continue our self determination in our education, just as Tony Díaz @librotraficante says, “our terms on our terms”.
@classbookstore CLASS Bookstore is a Black-owned and family operated online/mobile/brick-and-mortar retailer based in Houston, TX.
Founded by co-owners and married couple, David & Dara Landry in November 2020, they began their business as an online bookstore, operating out of their apartment.
January 2021- December 2022 were the years of participating in pop-up markets throughout the cities of Houston and Austin, TX.
On December 3, 2022, they opened the brick-and-mortar shop, called "The Residency" at 3803 Sampson St., 77004 (just outside of the campus of Texas Southern University).
Jesus A. Cosme is a book seller & owner of @kingabels.satx King Abel's. Prior to selling books, Cosme sold handmade jewelry, accessories & apparel under the name of "Jes Co's Designs". He designed "King Abel" circa 2018 and it was then, that he decided to change the direction he was going business wise & started selling books.
Since then he’s been advocating for literacy & history, primarily Latin & African American history. The majority of the books he sells revolve around that, culture & history. He sells books for all ages & anyone curious/interested enough to learn history outside of what's taught in school. The books he sells are for a minimum of $5 donation. The goal is not to get rich from selling books, although profit IS nice, but to strive pri
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Latino Bookstore Texas Author Series: Huizache Spotlight!
We have a Huizache Magazine Spotlight at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Latino Bookstore!
Join Tony Diaz aka El Librotraficante, Literary Curator for the Latino Bookstore, as he welcomes a talented set of artists to the Westside San Antonio Texas to celebrate the Chicano literary journal.
The Friday May 12th event starts at 6:00 PM CST. Here's some info on our incredible roster of authors!
Jo Reyes-Boitel is a poet, playwright, and scholar, queer mixed Latinx, and parent, now working on their MFA in Creative Writing at the UTRGV - The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where they also serve as a teaching assistant. Their publications include Michael + Josephine (FlowerSong Press 2019) and the chapbook mouth (Neon Hemlock, 2021). Playing with fire, their book of poetry centered on their upbringing, is forthcoming from Next Page Press in November 2023. “she wears bells”, their hybrid opera, was chosen as a finalist for Guerilla Opera’s 2022 annual virtual festival.
Vincent Cooper is the author of Where the Reckless Ones Come to Die, Aztlan Libre Press 2014, Zarzamora – Poetry of Survival, Jade Publishing 2019 and forthcoming, Infidelis, Mouthfeel Press, Fall of 2023. Cooper’s poems can be found in Huizache 6, Huizache 8, Riversedge Journal, Somos En Escrito, Dryland Lit, co-editor of Good Cop/Bad Cop Anthology, Flowersong Press 2021. He is also a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop selected in 2015. Cooper is former United States Marine currently living in the southside of San Antonio, TX.
Roberto Ontiveros is an artist, fiction writer, and literary critic. Some of his work has appeared in the The Threepenny Review, The Santa Monica Review, Huizache, The Believer, and The Baffler. His collection of stories, The Fight for Space, is published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press.
GCAC's Latino Book Store's 2023 Texas Author Series: Presenting Silviana Wood
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Latino Bookstore, the only Latino book store in Texas, fired up the second year of it's Texas Author's Series and welcomes Silviana Wood who will share her experience as a writer and read from ger latest novel "La Quinta Soledad".
