Tejano Conjunto Festival

The Grandaddy of Conjunto Festivals, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's 32nd Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio 2013 will kick off with the Free Seniors Conjunto Dance featuring Santos Soza y sus Estrellas on Wednesday, May 15, at 9:30 a.m. at the Guadalupe Theater. This event is open to the public!


Click here for tickets and a full Tejano Conjunto Festival schedule.

The Girls of Atomic City

I hope you enjoy the review of "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II" by Denise Kiernan, which ran in yesterday's San Antonio Express-News.

The Girls of Atomic City Review

Congratulations Martha Tavera

The following post is submitted by Bertha Jacobson:


Felicidades a Martha Tavera (Curcio) quien gano el tercer lugar de poesia en el reciente concurso:

Voy a pedirle fotos y las pongo aqui!

Friday, May 3

La Voz de San Antonio Spoken Word Competition / Poet Laureate Signature Series

Finale: Our Lady of the Lake University: Thiry Auditorium, 411 SW 24th Street 6:00 – 8:00 pm The La Voz finale will include performers of competitions past as they battle to be named San Antonio’s first “La Voz” Spoken Word Champions. Contact Gemini Ink: (210) 734-9673; info@geminiink.org www.geminiink.org

Reyes Cardenas: Chicano Poet 1970-2010

AZTLAN LIBRE PRESS ANNOUNCES ITS SIXTH PUBLICATION

REYES CÁRDENAS: CHICANO POET 1970-2010

Aztlan Libre Press, an independent Xican@ press based out of San Antonio, Texas, announces
the publication of its sixth book: Reyes Cárdenas: Chicano Poet 1970-2010.

Organized mostly in chronological order, this book is a 40-year retrospective of Reyes Cárdenas’
life and work written from 1970-2010. It is divided into the following 11 sections: Selections
from Chicano Territory (1970); Los Pachucos y La Flying Saucer (1975, the only novella in
this anthology, originally published in Caracol magazine); Selections from Anti-Bicicleta Haiku
(1976); Selections from Survivors of the Chicano Titanic (1981); Elegy for John Lennon (1982);
Selections from I Was Never a Militant Chicano (1986); Homage to Robinson (2008); The Collected
Poems of Artemio Sánchez (2009); Meeting Mr. Incognito (2010); Poems from chicanopoet.
blogspot.com (2004-2010); and From Aztlan to the Moons of Mars: A Chicano Verse Novela
(2010). Of the eleven sections, five are selections from previous publications, and six are new,
never before published collections of poetry.

This book also features cover artwork and 11 original black and white title-page illustrations
for each section by San Antonio artist, L.A. David; plus, an introductory essay on Reyes’ work
by noted Chicano literary critic, Associate Professor of English, and Director of the Mexican-
American Studies Center at Texas Lutheran University, Juan Rodríguez.

“An epic of Chicano existence in the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st,
Reyes Cárdenas’ work boldly depicts the outrageous ironies and wildly brutal truths of our
humanity. Everyone is found here, from the Royal Chicano Air Force to Buddy Holly, and from
Emily Dickinson to Gulliver to the S.S. Gloria Anzaldúa, and somehow they all confess honestly
to each other in the unassuming genius of one of Aztlan’s most prolific poets and most constant
chroniclers…A powerful and courageous poet.”

Carmen Tafolla, Poet Laureate, City of San Antonio

“My hope is that this ground-breaking book will be the means by which Reyes Cardenas will
indeed ‘roar’ as loudly as any great poet of the past and present.”

From the Introduction by Juan Rodríguez

Reyes Cárdenas was born on January 6, 1948 in Guadalupe County, Texas. He has lived most of
his life in Central Texas, while making a living as a machinist.

To purchase Reyes Cárdenas: Chicano Poet 1970-2010, or other Aztlan Libre Press publications,
visit www.aztlanlibrepress.com  For a review copy, contact Publishers/Editors, Anisa Onofre or
Juan Tejeda, at the telephone number or e-mail address below. Aztlan Libre Press books are also
available through Small Press Distribution at www.spdbooks.org

ISBN-13: 978-0-9844415-5-6 * $23 * 372 pages * Trade Paperback * Publication: June, 2013

Literary Agent Leticia Gomez

SLHWSA Workshop Reminder

VIVA! Bookstore
Sautrday April 20, 2013
Time 9:00 - 11:00 A.M.
Literary Agent Leticia Gomez
Savvy Literary Services
Cost: $25
Coffee and Donuts will be provided.


Learn about the importance of an Agent in your writing career, and pitch your book to Leticia.
Leticia represents multiple genres and she is also interested in Spanish manuscripts.
Visit her website to learn more about her agency.
http://www.savvyliterary.com/

Hope you can come, it promises to be very informative!

Also, if you are interested in joining us for lunch afterward the workshop and pitches, we are planning on going to SOLUNA in Alamo Heights.

Please let Ruben know if you are coming, or call VIVA bookstore directly to reserve your spot
VIVA! Bookstore - Talk to Carla
8407 Broadway St San Antonio, TX 78209
(210) 826-1143

Reyna Grande at PAC, Friday, April 12

Writers Digest Contest

Thanks to Mary Lou Barrera for giving us this information.


All of you that have self published books should enter this contest.

Self-Published Authors: Enter Our Self-Published Writing Competition!
WritersDigest.com

www.writersdigest.com