Written by Scarlett Letters Our culture. Our skin colors. Our language. Our food. The music we have grown up listening to. Dancing in the living room while our mothers, aunts, and grandmother cook. The history that they carry. The knowledge they gave us to bring ourselves up. Our flag that reminds us that we are […]
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Historical Latin Americans: Poet Jose Angel Buesa
August 23, 2012 
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By Victoria Cepeda While dusting my book shelf, I bumped into a little book of poetry that I have had since I was teenager. It was “Oasis” (Havana, 1943) by one of my all time favorite poets Jose Angel Buesa. Born in Las Cruces, Cuba in 1910 and died in exile in the Dominican Republic in […]
Read more Feliz Cumpleaños To “The Greatest Poet of the 20th Century In Any Language,” Pablo Neruda
July 12, 2012 1 Comment
By Efrain Nieves Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile and died on September 23, 1973 in Santiago, Chile. He was best known for his erotic book Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) which was his second book he published at the age of 19. In […]
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