Tag: Jill Salahub
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News of Note May 2019
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Read More: News of Note May 2019The 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 book, Gatherest. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher had three image-text prose poems…
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Native American Heritage Month: Diane Glancy
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Diane GlancyDiane 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 and struggles inherent in claiming a Native American heritage. She…
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Native American Heritage Month: Winona LaDuke
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Read More: Native American Heritage Month: Winona LaDukeWinona 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 in Ashland, Oregon, where her mother was an art instructor…
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Native American Heritage Month: James Welch
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Read More: 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 to come. ~James Welch As an undergraduate at Oregon State…
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LGBT and Filipino American History Month: Noel Alumit
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Read More: LGBT and Filipino American History Month: Noel AlumitNoel 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 his Masters in Divinity at the University of the West.…
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Filipino American History Month: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
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Read More: Filipino American History Month: Cecilia Manguerra BrainardAuthor 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, then did graduate work at UCLA. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is…
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Filipino American History Month: Jessica Hagedorn
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Read More: Filipino American History Month: Jessica HagedornI 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, writer, poet, and multimedia performance artist Jessica Hagedorn was born…
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Sandra Cisneros
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Read More: Hispanic Heritage Month: Sandra CisnerosBecause 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 back to celebrating LGBT and Philipino American History. Sandra…
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Isabel Allende
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Read More: Hispanic Heritage Month: Isabel AllendeBecause 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 back to celebrating LGBT and Philipino American History. Isabel…
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Julia Alvarez
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Read More: Hispanic Heritage Month: Julia AlvarezBecause 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 back to celebrating LGBT and Philipino American History. Julia Alvarez…