MACONDISTA READINGS 2023

 

From macondowriters.com

 

JOIN US FOR THREE NIGHTS OF MACONDISTA READINGS. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

 

The Macondo Writers Workshop is an association of socially-engaged writers working to advance creativity, foster generosity, and serve community through their writing. Founded in 1995 by writer Sandra Cisneros and named after the mythical town in Gabriel García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the workshop gathers writers from all genres who work on geographic, cultural, economic, gender, and spiritual borders for an annual summer workshop with leading guest faculty from around the country. A guiding principle of our community is generosity and we are sustained by the ongoing support of donations like yours. As an entirely volunteer-run organization, all donations and gifts are used to fund and support the annual summer workshop. For more information, please visit www.macondowriters.com. If you have questions please email info@macondowriters.com.

 

 

MACONDO WRITERS WORKSHOP OPEN MIC READING

Thursday July 27, 7-8:30 p.m. CST

Trinity University, Dicke Hall, Room 104

1 Trinity Pl, San Antonio, TX 78212

 

MACONDO WRITERS WORKSHOP OPEN MIC READING

Friday, July 28, 7-9 p.m. CST

Trinity University, Dicke Hall, Room 104

1 Trinity Pl, San Antonio, TX 78212

 

 

MACONDO WRITERS WORKSHOP GUEST FACULTY READING AND PACHANGA

Featuring:

Rigoberto González

Sharon Bridgforth

John Phillip Santos reading work by Ishmael Reed and Richard Blanco. 

 

The MC will be Nely Galán, with music by DJ Despeinada.

 

Saturday July 29, (doors open at 6:30pm) event begins at 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. CST

The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center

 922 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio.

Sandra Cisneros' Virtual Event

 

Sandra Cisneros, Award-winning author of "House on Mango Street"

by UCI Illuminations

 

Date and time

Thu, April 28, 2022

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT

 

Location

Online event

 

To register visit, bit.ly/3OBnedc

 

 

Meet Sandra Cisneros, author of the beloved novel “House on Mango Street,” about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.

 

About this event

Please join us for an inspiring evening with author Sandra Cisneros, author of the beloved novel “House on Mango Street,” about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. The author will be introduced by Professor Rodrigo Lazo (English). Q and A moderated by Professor Héctor Tobar (Literary Journalism).

This event supports our year-long theme, “For a more perfect union?” and contributes to campus-wide discussions of wisdom in the world. How does literature help us reimagine community in a changing world? How is literature a conduit of wisdom that attunes us to ancestors, history, the environment, other people, and ourselves? Please join the conversation by attending this and other events organized around these themes.

 

For more information and to register visit,  bit.ly/3OBnedc

 

 

Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo

Written by Sandra Cisneros

Translated by Liliana Valenzuela

 

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Bilingual edition

Language ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593313666

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593313664

 

A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully written by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, in a beautiful dual-language edition.

 

As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up with other immigrants to call home from a broken pay phone. But the months of befriending panhandling artists in the métro, sleeping on crowded floors, and dancing the tango at underground parties are given a lasting glow by her intense friendships with Martita and Paola. Over the years the three women disperse to three continents, falling out of touch and out of mind—until a rediscovered letter brings Corina’s days in Paris back with breathtaking immediacy.

 

Martita, I Remember You is a rare bottle from Sandra Cisneros’s own special reserve, preserving the smoke and the sparkle of an exceptional year. Told with intimacy and searing tenderness, this tribute to the life-changing power of youthful friendship is Cisneros at her vintage best, in a beautiful dual-language edition.

 

Review

 

"Tightly written, unfolding in a controlled spool of memory, the story is told in a combination of correspondence and narrative vignettes; its length is closer to that of a long short story but it works as a stand-alone volume, especially as paired with its Spanish version. A tale both beautiful and brief." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

 

"Every heart-revving scene is sensuously and incisively rendered, cohering into a vivid, tender, funny, bittersweet, and haunting episodic tale of peril, courage, concession, selfhood, and friendship. Cisneros's intricately multidimensional and beautifully enveloping novella is presented in both English and Spanish." —Booklist (starred review)

 

"Cisneros’s language and rhythm of her prose reverberate with Corina’s longing for her youth and unfulfilled promise. The author’s fans will treasure this." —Publishers Weekly

Poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist and artist, SANDRA CISNEROS is the author of Bad Boys, My Wicked Wicked Ways, Loose Woman, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, The House on Mango Street, Caramelo, Have You Seen Marie?, Vintage Cisneros—a compilation of her works— and Bravo, Bruno. Her most recent books are A House of My Own: Stories from My Life, which is illustrated with photographs, and Puro Amor in a dual-language edition translated by Liliana Valenzuela and featuring illustrations by the author. Born in Chicago in 1954, she is a citizen of both the United States and Mexico. She makes her living by her pen.

You Bring Out The Muerta in Me: A Collective Poem For Day of the Dead

Olga García Echeverría


This past week, I invited a small group of women to conjure up some verses for Day of the Dead. Who wants to write about the dead on Day of the Dead all by themselves? Not me. With Sandra Cisneros' poem "You Bring Out the Mexican in Me" as inspiration and with La Muerte in mind, we came up with about six lines each. The intention was to play individually and then create a poetic capirotada to share here at La Bloga. In typical 21st century estilo, we did this via email. The participating women sent me their lines last night and instead of trick-or-treating, I stayed home and strung our verses together like stringing marigolds on thread.

Gracias to Sandra Cisneros for the poetic springboard and to Iris de Anda, liz gonzález, Rebecca González, and Amelia M.L. Montes for collectively birthing this poem.

 

You Bring Out The Muerta in Me

You bring out the calavera in me
the white painted cheekbones
the black rounded ojos
la boca abierta de la muerte
sonriente, llena de dientes

You bring out the trenzas in me
braided in yellow orange yarn
el pelo suelto y greñudo you bring
out La Pelona, La Catrina, La Huesuda

the papel picado hanging above the altar in me
the tequila shot overflowing the llorona
the calavera and cempasúchil lover
the agua dulce y ardiente pouring vida in me

You bring out el veneno in me--brilliant green,
white, and red, La Tierra natal
making mis huesos move en ritmo con tus gritos

You bring out the dead in me
the güero, hazel-eyed daddy roaring his chopper down Rancho Avenue in me
the cotton picker boy on the El Paso border
the Grandpa's teeth in a glass on the bathroom sink
the Santa Fe clerk typing love letters during breaks at work
the San Francisco del Rincon dirt in shoeless feet

You bring out the Grandma dancing in the kitchen with her granddaughter in me
the teen all dolled up walking ten blocks in heels to see her sweetheart
the softball before school girl in me 

You bring out so many ghosts in me
the swelling blue crystal waves of nostalgia
the unearthed poetry of ash and dust
el canto del llanto transformed into a sugar-skulled fiesta

Under flashing lights and between the swaying and sweating bodies
You coax me on the dance floor
strengthening my balance while guiding my hips to the chaos

We play at night, you and I
in the alleys of this old noisy town
picnics at “El Pino” with a bottle of Malbec
under moonlight you offer serenatas from the neighbors' radios
spilling out Jose Alfredo Jimenez and Dinah Washington
resting your kiss on the nape of my neck while we slow dance
our bodies never too far apart

You live on my breath and I in your bones
You bring out the Muerta in me.

 


Amelia M.L. Montes is a Los Angelena from East Los living in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her Xicana name is “roja.” She's a profa at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, teaching Chicana/Chicano and Latina/Latino literatures. She publishes critical work, fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

Iris De Anda is a writer, activist, and practitioner of the healing arts. She is a native of Los Angeles with roots in Mexico, El Salvador, and The Cosmos. She believes in the power of Spoken Word, poetry, storytelling, and dreams. She is a member of the poetry community Poets Responding to SB1070 and her poems have been featured here at La Bloga numerous times. She is also the author of Codeswitch: Fires From Mi Corazón.

Cultivated by the sun and moon peeking past the shoes dangling from the phone lines, Rebecca Gonzales was raised and resides “one block East of El Pino” in East LA. Rebecca’s work has been published in various literary anthologies and journals such as Issue 1 of Dryland Lit., Brooklyn and Boyle, Hinchas de Poesia, the Mas Tequila Review, Cipatli and others. As a mother she is humbled, as a poet she is obedient, and as a woman she is unapologetic.

liz gonzález's poetry, fiction, and memoirs have appeared in numerous literary journals, periodicals, and anthologies. Recently, an excerpt from her novel appears in Inlandia: A Literary Journey and her poetry appears in the anthology Wide Awake: The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond and in Silver Birch Press's Series. She hosts, curates, and organizes UPTOWN WORD Reading Series, is a member of the Macondo Workshop, and works as a writing consultant and teaches creative writing through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

Olga García Echeverría is dead tired.
Sending love and good wishes to you and all your dead.

2014 Macondo Writers Workshop Reading

From LatinoStories YouTube Channel

The Macondo workshops started in 1995 at the kitchen table of the poet and writer Sandra Cisneros in San Antonio. These yearly workshops aimed to bring together a community of poets, novelists, journalists, performance artists, and creative writers of all genres whose work is socially engaged. Their work and talents are part of a larger task of community-building and non-violent social change. What united them was a commitment to work for under-served communities through their writing. Since 2006 The Macondo Foundation proceeded to organize the workshops, which continued to provide its participants with an oasis to concentrate on their writing and improve their skills in a demanding atmosphere of support and kinship.

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center has taken over the administration of the Macondo workshops with the blessing of its founder and the board of the Macondo Foundation.

This unique environment is unlike any other literary initiative in the United States. It is premised in Cisneros’ vision to create a homeland for writers who are working in underserved communities. Many times writers work alone and feel isolated. Macondo has fostered a vibrant and growing community of writers who view their writing as way of giving back to the community and changing lives by fostering literacy. This reading featured: Gabriela Lemmons, Joe Jimenez, Jose B. Gonzalez, Miguel M. Morales, Rene Colato Lainez, B.V. Olguin, Carmen Tafolla, and Laurie Ann Guerrero.

Have You Seen Marie?- A New Book By Sandra Cisneros

By Sandra Cisneros

Illustrated by Ester Hernandez 

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Knopf (October 2, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307597946
• ISBN-13: 978-0307597946

The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman’s search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother’s death. 

The word “orphan” might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like “a glove left behind at the bus station.” What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere, “Have you seen Marie?” the pursuit of this one small creature takes on unexpected urgency and meaning. With full-color illustrations that bring this transformative quest to vivid life, Have You Seen Marie? showcases a beloved author’s storytelling magic, in a tale that reminds us how love, even when it goes astray, does not stay lost forever.

Sandra Cisneros leaves San Anto?

[Amelia Montes is off today.]

by Rudy Ch. Garcia

As many of you 60s and 70s activists know, back in those days there were certain cosas that were not talked about in public places, things that La Raza had no tolerance for listening to. Criticism. Questioning of leadership. Talking about the jefes and jefas. It extended into the written word, as well. I remember a fairy tale I wrote that received physical threats as part of my audience review, on me, not on the tale. We seemed to be a gente allergic to the airing of laundry or anything that questioned the sanctity of our celebrities.

I don't know how much times have changed, but I found it refreshing to read a writer, new to me, detailing the type of discussion and views that those of us here at La Bloga have likely deliberately avoided presenting on our pages. Anyone involved in the Chicano lit world has heard unsavory to critical comments about some ChicanA writers. Yes, ChicanO, too. History and gente will decide whether our choices to not publicize or debate such was a journalistic weakness on our part. Likewise our tendency, sometimes, to find few weaknesses in literary works. I'll leave it at that.

Below is the beginning of a lengthy and journalistically responsible (in my opinion) article by Roberto Ontiveros. The title alone says much about its contents and the sometimes heated comments it produced:

Sandra Cisneros's defenders and detractors debate what the celebrated author has meant to San Antonio and Latino literature

[By Roberto Ontiveros, published Feb. 15, 2012 in the Current, "San Antonio’s free, award-winning, alternative newsweekly, featuring local writers and critics covering politics, arts, music, food & drink, and every other crucial Alamo City topic." – Website's "About Us"]

"As nearly everyone now knows, Sandra Cisneros — the oft-times indigenously attired author who founded the Macondo Writers' Workshop here in 1998 and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation two years later — is done with San Antonio. Judging from the comments strung to the news articles announcing her impending exit, people here feel mournfully mosaic about her departure. She is done with Texas as well, and heading for... who knows where really?
.....
"As longtime friend and absolute fan Bill Sanchez told me, Cisneros's reasons for leaving are as simple as the fact that, at 57, she feels compelled to reevaluate her life and the work she still wants to accomplish. It is time to focus on herself, she tells me. So, Cisneros is done with this state and done with the state she found herself in. To be blunt, it sounds like she is done with a lot of you, too."

RudyG: One of the commenters wrote:
"Roberto [Ontiveros], what have you done? As Latinos we haven't the
luxury of destroying one another. The profound irresponsibility of ethics and knowledge in this piece is
 heartbreaking."

What the commenter termed Latinos not having the luxury of destroying one another, I call responsible journalism. The accusation of "irresponsibility of ethics" sounds to me like charges from the old Movimiento caudillismo some of us tolerated more than others.

I leave further interpretation of this article to La Bloga readers to decide for themselves. Go here to read the full article.

Es todo, hoy,
RudyG

Macondo presents La Luz: En los Tiempos de la Oscuridad

Sandra Cisneros and the Macondo Writers' Workshop invite you to:

La Luz: En los Tiempos de la Oscuridad 

Join us for two nights of performances, dancing and music celebrating our guest writers.
 

Luz is another word for love, illumination, clarity and a higher self. In this event we will rise up above our smallness and transform darkness, choosing love over terror and acting in light. The Macondo Writers’ Workshop presents two nights of readings including a special Wednesday night performance by Julia Alvarez, Helena María Viramontes and Manuel Muñoz.
 

This year’s workshop is made possible by generous support from Amazon.com. “We are writers who believe we can change the world. We are thrilled that Amazon.com is assisting us with this aim,” said Sandra Cisneros, founder of the Macondo Writer’s workshop.

Wednesday, July 27

Featuring:  Julia Alvarez, Helena María Viramontes, Manuel Muñoz and Sandra Cisneros

Special performances by David Garza and S.T. Shimi

Jump-Start Performance Co.
San Antonio, Texas
 

210-227-JUMP

Seating is limited, so buy your tickets early.

$25 for general admission and $50 for table seating.

Visit www.macondofoundation.org or www.jump-start.org for more information.

Thursday, July 28

Featuring: Macondo Writers

Music: Conjunto El Trio

Thiry Auditorium–at Our Lady of the Lake University from 7-9 p.m.
San Antonio, Texas

Free

Macondo Foundation

The Macondo Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that organizes and hosts an annual workshop for professional writers. It originally began as a writing workshop around the kitchen table of poet and writer Sandra Cisneros in 1998. In the last decade the workshop has grown from 15 participants to more than 150 participants. The foundation continues to grow in its outreach to writers. As an association of socially-engaged writers united to advance creativity, foster generosity, and honor community, the Macondo Foundation attracts generous and compassionate writers who view their work and talents as part of a larger task of community-building and non-violent social change.

For more information about the Macondo Foundation visit our web site www.macondofoundation.org.

Sandra Cisneros' Pajama Pachanga

Sandra Cisneros Free Public Reading
Wednesday, December 8, 6 p.m.

Get a sneak-peak party preview at Sandra Cisernos's free reading open to the public at the Twig Bookstore at the Pearl Complex, 200 E Grayson St., San Antonio, Texas. Call (210) 826-6411 for more details.

Pajama Pachanga: Sandra Cisneros's 56th Birthday Party Fundraiser for Macondo
Sunday, December 19, 6 to 11 p.m.
At LUNA, 6740 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio, Texas

ATTIRE: Pajamas

6:30 Krayolas

8:50  Mariachis/Conjunto Taller

9:40 Chayito and Teresa Champion and El Curro

10:00 Agosto Cuellar- Jive Refried

Featuring special guest performances by Janis DeLara and S.T. Shimi.

We request a minimum donation of $56 (Sandra’s age) per person if you plan to attend the party. Even if you can't make it out please consider making a donation to help make our important work supporting writers possible. Because this is a small lounge venue, we aren’t selling the traditional table seating, but please don’t let that stop you from giving more. Seating will be limited and on a first-come-first-serve basis. The venue is intimate and the party is all night with different bands and people come and go during the evening. Click here to make your donation.

For more information call Roland at 210-432-9098 or send an e-mail to macondo@macondofoundation.org.

Celebrando la Virgen de Guadalupe 

at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

2010 Macondo Workshop Online Application

ONLINE FIRST-YEAR APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!

Submit an application to join the Macondo Writers' Workshop in 2010. Leslie Marmon Silko will be leading the Famosa Workshop. Sandra Cisneros will also be co-teaching a workshop with Lourdes Portillo in her yellow office Casa Xochitl. Application deadline is January 29, 2010. First-year online applications are available online. Visit www.macondofoundation.org to apply.

Mission Statement

An association of socially-engaged writers united to advance creativity, foster generosity, and honor community.

Organizational History

The Macondo Foundation, Inc., is committed to bringing together a diversity of writers crossing borders of all kinds. As an association of socially-engaged writers united to advance creativity, foster generosity, and honor community, the Macondo Foundation attracts generous and compassionate writers who view their work and talents as part of a larger task of community-building and non-violent social change.

Officially incorporated in 2006, the Macondo Foundation has its roots in the Macondo Writers’ Workshop, which began in 1998, in the kitchen of poet and writer Sandra Cisneros. The Workshop rapidly grew from 15 participants to more than 120 participants in less than 9 years.

The Macondo Workshop has been more successful every year, expanding community involvement through annual events with the Our Lady of the Lake University, UT-San Antonio, Trinity University, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, Jump-Start Performance Theatre, Casa de Maria y Marta and the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center. We would especially like to acknowledge the generosity of Our Lady of the Lake University.

Macondo currently makes its home at Our Lady of the Lake University. Recent Macondo Foundation undertakings include the Gloria Anzaldua Milagro Award, meant to care for our community’s writers in a time of needed healing; health insurance coverage to our member writers; the Elvira Cordero Cisneros Award, and the Casa Azul Residency Program.

Along with the commitment and vision of Macondo’s founder, Sandra Cisneros, Macondo enjoys the ongoing support and participation of other internationally recognized writers, including Denise Chavez, John Phillip Santos, Luis Rodriguez, Dorothy Allison, Joy Harjo, Carmen Tafolla, and a large body of emerging writers who are also publishing books, touring in the U.S. and abroad, and working in their communities.

April is National Poetry Month!!!!!

Photo by Tina Modotti

Better writers than I have shared their thoughts about the essential and ephemeral joy of poetry.....

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. Wallace Stevens

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Rene Char

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. Samuel McChord Crothers

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. Jean Cocteau

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde

Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. Charles Baudelaire

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. Jean Cocteau

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. Alfred de Musset


Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. A. E. Housman

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

God is the perfect poet. Robert Browning

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Carl Sandburg

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. Horace

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Voltaire

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. Novalis

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. Robert Frost

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. William Hazlitt

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Rita Dove

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Paul Engle

Favorite poetry books -- in no particular order

Odes to Common Things -- Neruda
Ode to Opposites -- Neruda
I Praise My Destroyer --- Ackerman
Loose Woman --- Cisneros
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon -- Neruda
My Own True Name --- Mora
Furious Cooking --- Seaton
Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Selected Poetry of W. B. Yeates
My Nature is Hunger --- Rodriguez
what i'm on -- Valadez

Favorite Poems (at the moment)
When You Are Old and Full of Sleep -- Yeates
Wildflowers -- Ackerman
Ulysses -- Tennyson

Lisa Alvarado

The House On Mango Street- 25th Anniversary Edition

Sandra Cisneros talks about her childhood and the role libraries and education played in her life. And don't miss the 25th anniversary edition of her classic novel The House on Mango Street, now with a new introduction by the author.



Sandra Cisneros talks about the importance of volunteering and community activism in her life.




Sandra Cisneros reading from House on Mango street paired with Hispanic art.

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