Dr. William Luis, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, was recently awarded the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for European & Latin American Literature.
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Our Long Awaited Issue, ¿WHAT’S IN A NOMBRE?, Has Published
We are pleased to announce the publication of ¿WHAT’S IN A NOMBRE? Writing Latin@ Identity in America. This 310-page issue, which was guest edited by Nancy Mercado, features a cavalcade of over 117 Latino poets, writers and artists from across the U.S. This groundbreaking issue is not only a great teaching tool, but is an excellent addition in anyone’s library collection.
Continue →phati’tude Literary Magazine Announces Hiatus until January 2013
phati’tude Literary Magazine is going on hiatus after the publication of its Latino issue. This hiatus is being done in the name of growth. It’s not indefinite, and we’ll be back January 2013 to resume publishing our Women’s issue, Spring 2013, which will be edited by Jen Johnson, our Managing Editor.
Continue →Tribute to Louis Reyes Rivera (1945-2012)
SHOCKED AND STUNNED. Those are the words that come to mind every time I go back to the moment I heard of Louis Reyes Rivera’s sudden passing. He was a friend and a mentor, always chastising me to do better and more, to own it, to push the boundaries and limits of the publishing and literary worlds.
Continue →El Gran Antillano: Remembering Louis Reyes Rivera
Poet Shaggy Flores shares a few words about friend, hermano, mentor, editor, teacher, and fellow Nuyorican Poet, Louis Reyes Rivera, who recently passed away in the early hours of March 3, 2012.
Continue →Dancing for culture: Protesters defend Chicano literature
Led by Houston Community College professor Tony Diaz and students protest Tucson Unified School District’s dissolution of its Mexican-American studies classes.
Continue →phati’tude Has A New Shop! Support our Magazine — Buy a Mug or T-Shirt!
phati’tude. It’s a great name that represents the best contemporary writers on the scene today. Support the name and the cause by purchasing some really great logo merchandise available at our new CafePress storefront.
Continue →William Luis Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Dr. William Luis, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, was recently awarded the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for European & Latin American Literature.
Continue →phati’tude Celebrates ¿What’s in a Nombre? Cover Artist Goñi Montes
Goñi Montes, an up-and-coming, cutting edge Borican graphic artist gives phati’tude Literary Magazine’s Latino issue a slamming cover that’s making waves in the literary world.
Continue →Andrew Jackson Publishes Long-Awaited Groundbreaking Book on African American Librarians
Librarian Andrew P. Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako) co-edits with fellow librarians, Julius C. Jefferson, Jr. and Akilah S. Nosakhere, The 21st Century Black Librarian in America, a tribute to the late Dr. E.J. Josey, activist and librarian.
Continue →Author Carol Smallwood Promotes Latest Books
Author and Librarian Carol Smallwood has published a series of books in the past few years in quick succession. Find out more her books and check out her Check out a book review, Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing.
Continue →Tony Medina Publishes Latest Collection of Poetry: An Onion of Wars
phati’tude contributor Tony Medina, a two-time winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People for DeShawn Days (2001) and I and I, Bob Marley (2009), has published his seventh collection of poetry, Onions of War (Third World Press).
Continue →An Anthology with a Mission: Nothing But Red
Nothing But Red is an anthology of literary and visual artists that brings attention to the issue of violence against women worldwide. Published in 2008, poet-teacher-writer-activist and phati’tude contributor and a contributor to this anthology, Andrena Zawinski, continues to promote Nothing But Red, because she believes it serves a worthy cause.
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The Más Tequila Review: Poetry for the Rest of Us!
Find out more about phati’tude contributor Richard Vargas, the publisher and editor of The Más Tequila Review (TMTR) an independently owned small press poetry review, and his quest to promote relatively unknown yet exceptional poets!
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Learning about Turkey through literature: ‘Under a Crescent Moon’ by Daniel de Souza
This slim book, written by Daniel de Souza while serving a prison sentence for attempting to smuggle drugs into Turkey, makes a great read for anyone interested in finding out more about Turkish society and what makes the people tick.
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¿WHAT’S IN A NOMBRE? Due for Publication March 30th
Yes. There has been a delay, but it’s coming. ¿WHAT’S IN A NOMBRE? Writing Latin@ Identity in America will publish and be available for sale on March 30th. It’s a 300 page issue filled with interviews, essays, poetry, artwork and translations, that’s worth the wait!
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Literature is best left alone, don’t adapt it, says Saeed Mirza
Literature is best left alone in the spirit of celebrated French-Swiss filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard’s philosophy that good literature makes bad cinema, says filmmaker and writer Saeed Akhtar Mirza.
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Oldest film based on Dickens found in Britain
An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens.
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New alternative literature in the form of blogging
2012 marks the end of the world, the presidential election — dubbed the most idiotic of all time — and a flurry of strange global warming -induced weather. It’s also the beginning of a new online microblogging community, Tumblr, that’s becoming a vehicle for writers to show the world their writing.
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Readers’ Choice: 10 More of the Most Powerful Women in Literature
Flavorwire.com compiles a list of ten of the most powerful female characters in literature, The choices may surprise you.
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An Australian canon will only damage Australian literature
Some Australians believe formalizing a “literary canon” stifles a national literature that should accurately reflect an openness to change and reassessment.
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Dinefwr Literature Festival reveals inaugural line-up
A new festival celebrating Wales’ literature and landscape, has announced its first line-up of guests: writer Howard Marks, musicians Julian Cope and Gruff Rhys and poets Sir Andrew Motion and Gillian Clarke, held in June at Dinefwr Park and Castle in Carmarthenshire.
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The Literature of Resistance
Author reveals that Literature played an important role in the armed and political struggle of the Eritrea, located on the horn of Africa, with oral poems playing prominently in mobilizing the people against danger.
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Understanding literature is better than just calling it names
While some folks find Dante Alighieri of Florence’s epic poem, “The Divine Comedy” offensive or discriminatory, it actually provides a rare insight into how people saw each other back then. Besides, you would no more try to ban it from classrooms than you’d ban “The Merchant of Venice .”
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Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature launched
The Sultan of Oman recently launched the Sultan Qaboos Award for Culture, Arts and Literature. An annual competition, the winner will receive 50,000 rials.
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Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2012 programme announced
A new festival, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway Ireland will premiere this April featuring readings by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell, leading Irish novelist John Banville, popular American poet Billy Collins, and leading Irish poet Paul Durcan.
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Motherhood Celebrated in Irish, Palestinian War Literature
Gaza Center for Political and Development Studies (CPDS) held Tuesday, March 13 a lecture on Palestinian and Irish Women in War Literature, delivered by Dima T. Tahboub, comparative literature professor, with the presence of Palestinian activists and students.
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