Proyecto Latina: More than Poetry, open mic
Monday, September 15th @ 7 p.m.

We're thrilled to have Achy Obejas return to Proyecto Latina this September. Make sure to join us. Details coming soon.

Friendly reminder Join us at Radio Arte, 1401 W. 18th Street, on the corner of 18th and Blue Island for this event. Event details.

Tomas Riley, from the Taco Shop Poets, will lead a poetry workshop. This workshop is free of charge, to participate RSVP is required. To reserve your spot, send an email to info@tianguis.biz.  

This workshop is sponsored by the Guild Complex and will be held at Tianguis, 2003 S. Damen. Tomas Riley will also be featuring in September's Palabra Pura. Details here.

The Guardians, book signing and reading with Ana Castillo
Thursday, September 19th @ 7 p.m.

Ana Castillo will read and sign books on Friday, September 19, 2008 @ 7 p.m. at Tianguis.

Space is limited, and will be on a first-come first-serve basis so plan to be there early to catch a seat.

The Guardians by Ana Castillo will be released into paperback on September 9, 2008.

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