Title: Sueño Author: Lorna Dee Cervantes Genre: Poetry Publisher: Wings Press Release Date: October 2013 Format: Print, Ebook Pages: 132 Sueño by: Lorna Dee Cervantes Reviewed by: Rose Geiger A critically acclaimed poet,...
Luz María Umpierre’s The Margarita Poems have, in effect, three central characters. The first of course is Margarita, who is constructed throughout the poem set as the object of sexual desire and also of...
Title: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina Author: Raquel Cepeda Genre: Autobiography/Memoir Publisher: Atria Books Release Date: March 5th, 2013 Format: Book Pages: 336 Raquel Cepeda, born in New York City and raised...
Title: Juliet Takes a Breath Author: Gabby Rivera Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books Release Date: January 27, 2016 Pages: 274 The Making of a Queer Latina World Gabby Rivera’s first novel Juliet...
Title: In the Time of the Butterflies Author: Julia Alvarez Genre: Historical Fiction Release Date: 1994 Pages: 344 Dominican American novelist, essayist, and poet Julia Alvarez was born in New York City in 1950...
Kristiana Rae Colon’s Promised Instruments, winner of The Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry prize, is a collection of visceral language, tense vignettes, taboo emotional traps, and sensual games of who’s-who. For readers interested in the...
Title: Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Author: Edited by Marta Moreno Vega, Marinieves Alba, and Yvette Modestin Genre: Anthology Publisher: Arte Publico Press Release Date: 2012 Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora, Edited...
Title: Yerba Buena Author: Sandra María Esteves Genre: Poetry Publisher: The Greenfield Review Press Release Date: 1980 Pages: 90 Feminist, Anti-Colonial, Transgressive Reviewed by Sammi Stolar Sandra Maria Esteves’s Yerba Buena is a collection...
Title: In the Name of Salomé Author: Julia Álvarez Genre: novel Publisher: Algonquin Writing as an Experience to Experience Julia Alvarez is a Dominican American born in New York City who moved to...
Title: Yo-Yo Boing! Author: Giannina Braschi Genre: Fiction Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press Release Date: 1998 Format: Paperback Pages: 205 A Puerto Rican-born author who is unafraid of pushing stylistic and linguistic boundaries...
Title: Getting Home Alive Author: Aurora Levins Morales & Rosario Morales Genre: Essays, Poems, Short Stories Publisher: Firebrand Books Release Date: December 1, 1986 Format: Print Pages: 213 Generational Borderless Pursuit Reviewed by Mariana...
Title: Picture Me Rollin', by "Black Artemis," aka Sofía Quintero Author: Black Artemis Genre: fiction Publisher: New American Library Release Date: 2005 Format: print Picture Me Rollin’ by Black Artemis Review by Edvusani Maisonet...
