We are proud to announce the publication of our relaunch issue, MULTICULTURALISM: IN SEARCH OF A NEW PERSPECTIVE, featuring over 50 writers of different ethnicities and religious backgrounds from the U.S. and around the globe: Canada, England, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Israel, Japan, Guam and the Philippines. Featuring essays by Marie Arana, Marc Crane, David Wulf, David Zinser; and interviews of Lawson Fusao Inada, Tara Betts and A. Robert Lee. Plus a chock full of book reviews, commentary by Terry Sanville, Aram Saroyan, Lee Minh Sloca and Richard Kostelanetz. This issue of phati’tude Literary Magazine was co-edited by Francis C. Macansantos, Jon Sands and Monica S. Macansantos.

Poets and writers featured in this issue include:

Sherman Alexie * Ammiel Alcalay * Meena Alexander * Karen Alkalay-Gut * Meliza Bañales * Oscar Bermeo * Tara Betts * Shane Book * Christine Bousfield * Iain Britton * Meilani Clay * Kevin Coval * Kimberly Curtis * Aya de León * Heid E. Erdrich * Jaime “Shaggy” Flores * Reesha Geppert * Mark Gibbons * Zahra Gordon * Lawson Fusao Inada * Richard Jackson * Richard Kostelanetz * Nomy Lamm * Heather Lea * Shirley Bradley LeFlore * Angelica Le Minh * Timothy Liu * Monica S. Macansantos * Stephen Mead * Tony Medina * Jesús Papoleto Meléndez * Nancy Mercado * Opal Moore * Jada-Gabrielle Pape * Silas Parry * Craig Santos Perez * James G. Piatt * Richard L. Provencher * Michael Lee Rattigan * Alberto Ríos * Ruth L. Schwartz * Sue Sinclair * Martha Vertreace-Doody * A.D. Wiegert * Changming Yuan

The issue will be available the second week of June on CreateSpace.com and Amazon.com.

We had previously announced that the magazine would come out in in April, but the fact of the matter is, it takes a lot to put together the kind of publication we envisioned. What we can promise, is that it was well worth the wait.  Stay tune for more updates on our progress and details on our launch event in New York City.

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