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Latino Poetry
Buy the BookPoet Rigoberto Gonzales has created an exciting anthology that provides a brilliant insight into the legacy of Latino Poetry in the United States. It covers the origins of Latino Poetry in the Americas and traces its trajectory to modern, living poets in the U.S., shaping the art form and the nation, through Texas, Houston, and San Antonio.
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Stay tuned for an upcoming NP Show with Poets from the anthology.
Purchase your copy at our store.
Pair it with our exclusive print.
Meet contributors live in Houston in October 2024 and San Antonio April 2025.
This is where it gets even more exciting.
Nuestra Palabra is honored to carry signed copies of this work and to help organize readings to celebrate this landmark text. Additionally, NP is thrilled to say that we know so many of the writers in the work, some-even before they were published.
This includes writers from all over the nation. However, as NP helped organize the launch tour, we are most proud of the folks we are hosting in Houston because we knew Jasminne Mendez, Natasha Carrizosa, and ire’ne lara silva so many years before they were widely published, or even published. We are proud to have believed in them and so many other contributors and have supported them before the rest of the world recognized their gifts. Now, with this anthology compiled by the Library of America with our dear friend, and cultural accelerator, Rigoberto Gonzales, we are fulfilled to see the rest of the nation catch up to what we already knew.
Of course, you will also find the work of icons from the past such as Jose Marti, to the present like Sandra Cisneros, to other powerful poets whose work the Librotraficantes were proud to smuggle into Underground Libraries when Arizona Legislators banned Mexican American Studies such as Lorna Dee Cervantes, and others.
There is a renaissance of Latino Lit. Now, you can make it part of your family, public, or under ground library.
Order your signed copy through Nuestra Palara. We have also commissioned a print to pair with the work titled “Label” created by Monica Villarreal.