News of Note May 2019
The latest issue of Interim was devoted in part to Sasha Steensen’s work. The issue includes six poems by Sasha, as well as an essay she wrote on Magurerite Duras. The issue also includes a book review of her latest […]
Native American Heritage Month: Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy is a teacher, poet, author and playwright. She was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri, to a Cherokee father and an English/German mother. Early in her life, she chose to identify as a Cherokee Native American, accepting the consequences […]
Native American Heritage Month: Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke is an environmentalist, economist, and writer. Her father was from the Ojibwe White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, and her mother of Jewish European ancestry from the Bronx, New York. LaDuke was born in Los Angeles, California, but raised mostly […]
Native American Heritage Month: James Welch
~from Jill Salahub Indian writers might come from different eras, from different geographies, from different tribes, but we all have one thing in common: We are storytellers from a long way back. And we will be heard for generations […]
LGBT and Filipino American History Month: Noel Alumit
Noel Alumit is a novelist, actor, and activist. He was born in Baguio City, The Philippines, and grew up in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles. Alumit earned his BFA in Drama from the University of Southern California and is currently working toward […]
Filipino American History Month: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Author and editor, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard was born and raised in the Philippines. The death of her father when she was nine prompted her to start writing, first in journals, then essays and fiction. She went to college in the Philippines, […]
Filipino American History Month: Jessica Hagedorn
I write really because I have to and if the writing also destroys some of those myths and subverts forms and makes people question the very idea of the writer, the woman, the Filipino-American, the whatever, great! ~Jessica Hagedorn Playwright, […]
Hispanic Heritage Month: Sandra Cisneros
Because we got a late start for Hispanic Heritage Month, (it actually started September 15), we are going to spend this whole week, the final week of this particular celebration, featuring Hispanic authors, scholars, educators, and speakers. Next week we’ll […]
Hispanic Heritage Month: Isabel Allende
Because we got a late start for Hispanic Heritage Month, (it actually started September 15), we are going to spend this whole week, the final week of this particular celebration, featuring Hispanic authors, scholars, educators, and speakers. Next week we’ll […]
Hispanic Heritage Month: Julia Alvarez
Because we got a late start for Hispanic Heritage Month, (it actually started September 15), we are going to spend this whole week, the final week of this particular celebration, featuring Hispanic authors, scholars, educators, and speakers. Next week we’ll get […]