This episode, we wrap up our discussion of the second half of Promises of Gold by José Olivarez. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more

This episode, we begin our platica on the first half of Promises of Gold by José Olivarez. Reading at EPCC Valle Verde: https://youtu.be/9pxCvy7RS5U?si=jcASLrpWUX8VzvKQ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more

This episode, we finish our platica on Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more

After a hiatus, we are back! Here, we discuss the first half of Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more

Yasmin Ramírez joins us in the studio to talk about her first book, ¡Ándale, Prieta!: a Love Letter to My Family.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more

For part 2 of ¡Ándale, Prieta! by Yasmin Ramírez, we cover Part 2 of her memoir: Finding Yasmin. Stay tuned for part 3, our interview with Yasmin! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more

We round out 2022 with our first platica on the debut book and memoir by our friend and colleague, Yasmin Ramírez, ‘¡Ándale, Prieta!’, out of Lee and Low Books (formerly Cinco Puntos Press). Yasmin is an English Professor at El Paso Community College, a 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Author Fellow and a 2020 recipient of the Woody and Gayle Hunt-Aspen Institute Fellowship Award. Stay tuned for Part 2, and let us know if you've read her book below! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://p ..read more

This episode, we wrap up our discussion on Carlos Fidel Espinoza's How to Lie to a Customs Agent, focusing on the second half of the poetry collection.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more

It has been a minute! We are back with our first look at the 2021 winner of the Southwest Book Award, How to Lie to a Customs Agent, the poetry collection by Carlos Fidel Espinoza.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more

We kick off 2022 with our first look at Alessandra Narváez Varela’s debut novel-in-verse from Cinco Puntos Press, Thirty Talks Weird Love. Varela’s YA novel is the story of a young girl from Juárez, Mexico, who meets her older self at a time when the women of that border city become victims to violence. If your older self could talk to your 13-year-old self, what would they say? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/literallyliterary/support ..read more