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Statement from author Donovan Mixon

June 4, 2020 | No Comments

I’m totally disturbed by what’s happening. The killings of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd made me think of the killing of my oldest brother, Booker [image attached at the bottom of blog. Warning: graphic content] which was depicted in a scene in Ahgott[Read More]

David Bowles Pura Belpré 2019 Acceptance Speech

June 26, 2019 | No Comments

      Soy fronterizo. A child of the borderlands. Home is Donna, Texas, right across the river from Río Bravo, a bustling town in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The grandparents of my abuelo Manuel Garza came to Texas from that state i[Read More]

Life is An Act of Literary Creation: Luis Alberto Urrea

April 27, 2009 | No Comments

Luis Urrea reads his essay “Life is an Act of Literary Creation” on NPR’s series This I Believe. God, he says, is a poet. “…every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.” Listen to[Read More]

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