Comadrazo with Las Comadres para las Americas
Friday, April 11th @ 6 to 8 p.m.

Tianguis will be hosting the next Chicago area comadrazo, we hope you can join us this Friday, April 11th from 6 to 8 p.m.

The comadrazos take place in Chicago and across the country and are events we truly look forward to. There are no dues, no officers, just comadres getting together to meet, have great conversations and find ways to support each other in many ways. Las Comadres started in Austin, TX in 2000. Since April, 2003, 50 cities have been launched and about 5,000 comadres added to the lists. For details about this movement: www.lascomadres.org.

Proyecto Latina: More than Poetry, open mic
Monday, April 21st @ 7 p.m.

The April feature for Proyecto Latina is Marcy Rae Henry author of The CTA Chronicles and forthcoming novel Cumbia Therapy. Friendly reminder to join us at the studios at Radio Arte, 1401 W. 18th Street, on the corner of 18th and Blue Island for this event. Event details and Marcy's Bio.

New by Momotombo Press

From Here You Can Almost See the End of the Desert
by Aaron Michael Morales
with an introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea

Now available @ Tianguis and for online purchase.

"Morales seduces then abducts and we are carried away by the torrents of his endless sentences until we come up for air, gasping and astonished. This is not to say that these stories […] are prettified tales. Indeed, violence is the skin of these stories. Yet, we understand and we ache and that’s the best argument for reading fiction. So hear me and pay attention: Aaron Michael Morales is poised to startle." — Helena María Viramontes

"[Aaron Michael Morales] is a genius at putting the reader in a narrative bind before anyone knows what happened. This is subversive and sly work, as knowing in its effect as it is exciting to read. For all its thrilling nature, and for all his hard-edge style, this is a deeply moral effort. Morales wrestles with nothing less than the parameters of the human soul. Community, responsibility, even love are here, while eros, violence, fear, dread and a dark exultation fly through the nightscapes of these pieces."
— Luis Alberto Urrea

More copies have arrived of the previously sold-out title, "Malinche's Daughter" by Michelle Otero.

Praise for Malinche's Daughter:

In Malinche’s Daughter, Michelle Otero twines the intellect of a Fulbright fellow, the heart of a powerful woman, and the lyricism of a poet. This astounding debut collection of essays limns the author’s journey to Oaxaca, Mexico to guide a writer’s workshop for women survivors of sexual assault. In the process, Otero confronts the pain of her own childhood as well as cultures—north and south—which have been deaf to women’s voices. Here, Otero’s voice sings with profundity, soul, and spirit. Malinche’s Daughter will be heard, lauded, and widely read.
—Sue William Silverman
author, Because I Remember Terror Father, I Remember You

Artfully written, the stories in Malinche’s Daughter take us to Mexico and back, but it is also a trip to the past and to spaces of conflict and tension, finally coming home to that space where we are “born and re-born”
— Norma Elia Cantú
author, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera