LatinoLit

“Para mí, el referente principal es la realidad de mi pueblo, de mi entorno.”

The Loisaida Festival’s expanded offerings this year preview a new stage in Loisaida, Inc.’s plans to combine STEAM programming with social services that meet the needs of the local community.

This is gritty journalism.

Join us in Queens on April 7!

Being “Irishrican” is more common than you think.

Profiling a Chicana educator who’s worked tirelessly for the equality of all people.

La Bruja is considered one of the leading spoken word poets in the world.

San Antonio native Emma Tenayuca was a pioneering activist involved with issues that resemble those of modern times.

How a lack of Latino writers at the New Yorker and other media outlets shapes coverage of Latinos.

We salute you, Jovita Idar, during #WomenHistoryMonth.

Continuing his journey along Spain’s Camino de Santiago, author Silvio Sirias profiles the life of Emilia Pardo Bazán, a lady of letters who introduced naturalism to Spanish literature.

Latino Rebels presents: Rebeldes Anthology: Bolder. Bolder, is the first of several Rebeldes Anthology volumes. Staying true to the Latino Rebels tagline: Louder. Prouder. Bolder., this literary work breaks from the confines of mainstream realism, cross boundaries of form and genres, and bluntly covers a broad array of subject matter impacting the Latino community. The […]

  Last Monday night at exactly 9:30 pm EST everyone in America skipped a heartbeat while witnessing an epic performance at the Grammys. Introduced by our political humorist lord and savior, Stephen Colbert, everyone enjoyed the opening number, “Alexander Hamilton” of the Broadway musical Hamilton. A few 1,200  guests witnessed it live, at the Richard […]

“I come from the goal nets of a soccer field/where my father taught me how to play.”

 Presents: Latino Rebels Town Hall Mixer: Latino Vote 2016 Clearly, it’s overdue for our #RebeldesNation to gather around and have a lively conversation. Our Latino Rebels Town Hall Mixer, presented by our friends at The New York Times Latino Network filled up in less than 24 hours! To that, add the numerous emails we’ve received […]

It’s a question posed to Latinos on a regular basis, but it’s also a question which requires a complex answer.

Writers Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez have the tree-like superhero Groot mistaken for a ceiba by an Afro-Puerto Rican grandmother in New York’s Lower East Side.

“Writers of any ethnicity should be free to write the kind of literature they choose, without performing culture to satisfy the mainstream reader’s preconceptions.”

A poem about being Latino in an election year.

“There is no fear in art.”

“El 1 de diciembre fue un día ínfamo en nuestra historia. A ver nuestro gobernador dar limosnas a nuestro maestro colonial era una vergüenza profunda e imperdonable.”