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| Melinda Palacio, Aurora Anaya Cerda, and Nora Comstock at the 14th International Latino Book Awards |
La Bloga will be reportingfrom La Casa Azul Bookstore in Nueva York all week. I'll be in town for all theevents, including the Brooklyn Book Festival Saturday, September 23 and a booksigning at the booth hosted by La Casa Azul Bookstore and Las Comadres, Booth #122. Confirmed authors include: Esmeralda Santiago, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, John Parra, ReynaGrande, Sandra Guzman, Toni Plummer, Melinda Palacio, Alberto Ferreras, AnaArelys Cruz Cabrera, Carlos Andres Gomez, David Unger, Grece Flores Hughes, JaimeManrique, Lucrecia Guerrero, and Patricia Engel.
My first visit to New Yorkas an author brought a special surprise, a win of the Mariposa Award for BestFirst Book for my novel, Ocotillo Dreams. I had such a grand time seeing thesights and mingling with New Yorkers that, after the June ceremony at theInstituto Cervantes, I kept saying, 'I wish I can come back to New York soon'. Immediately, my wish wasgranted when Adriana Dominguez invited me to join the Las Comadres booth at theBrooklyn Book Festival and the Las Comadres y Compadres Writers Conference,Saturday October 6,held at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn.
The conference featuresauthors, agents, editors, and publishers, but there will also be a poetrypanel, moderated by Rich Villar, Executive Director of Acentos, from 11:00-11-50. Published poets discuss the poetry business and how to see your poemsin print. Panelists include Melinda Palacio, Emanuel Xavier, and Lila Zemborain. Register for the conference here.
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| Melinda and Toni Margarita (find us at the Brooklyn Book Festival Saturday, Sept. 23 at noon, booth 122) |
For those of you playing theWhere in the World is Melinda postcard contest on facebook, a big hint, I willbe in New York this week and for two days in October. See if you're the firstto identify where I'm at and I will write a postcard to you and drop it in theUS mail.
The New York festivitiesbegin tonight at La Casa Azul:
50 for Freedom (This event is alsohappening nationwide, including Tia Chucha's in Sylmar from 5pm to 10 pm)
Storytelling & Book Signing byJohn Parra, Saturday September 22, 12:00pm - 1:00pm.
Reading of The Distance BetweenUs
Reading with Sergio Troncoso &Renato Rosaldo
Here's some excellentnews...
PEN Oakland officially announcedthe winners of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Awards. I'm honored to seeOcotillo Dreams make the list.
PEN OAKLAND
(Oakland , CA), September 17, 2012 ---The 22nd Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Awards willtake place on Saturday, December 1, 2012, at the Oakland Public Library,Rockridge Branch, 5366 College Avenue from 2 to 5 p.m. The ceremony is free andopen to the public, and will be followed by a reception and booksignings. PEN Oakland , founded in 1989, is a chapter of PENInternational, founded in 1921. Dubbed "the blue collar PEN" bythe New York Times, PEN Oakland annually sponsors the PENOakland-Josephine Miles Book Awards, named for the late poet and facultymember of U.C. Berkeley's English Department. This year marks the 22stanniversary of the awards. Each year PEN Oakland presents an award tooutstanding book titles published in the previous year. The Awards were created twenty years ago to honor writers ofexceptional works often not acknowledged by the mainstream literarycommunity. Judged by respectedwriters, the awards honor books that both reflect a multi-cultural ormarginalized viewpoint and represent the highest standards of literature.
THE2012 PEN OAKLAND-JOSEPHINE MILES LITERARY AWARD WINNERS
Q.R.Hand will receive the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Countdown to Publication:ONE MONTH
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| How Fire Is a Story, Waiting (Tia Chucha Press, Fall 2012) |
"Palacio’swork is expansive, physical, funeral-wet, elevated, funny, existential,woman-story, jazzy and Pachukona. She is unafraid to dive head-on intoquestions of death, loss and self. Into the fiery entwined spikes offather-daughter estrangements, mother-daughter intimacies and most of all, sheis “insomniac” bold in this volume as an ongoing sequence on self. Melinda’s collection has Bop and“swagger,” lingo, song, denuncia,compassion and wild, unexpected turns– all the key ingredients and hard-won practicesof a poet (and shaman) in command of her powers. I don’t think there is anything like this book. ¡Brillantissima!"
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