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Poet Alexandra Regalado: Life Seen Through the Bulletproof Glass

May 14, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

When I attended the Associated Writing Programs conference in Tampa, Florida in March, I sought out Latinos, because the last time I went to the

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El Testimonio: César Vallejo y la búsqueda de mis raíces

May 7, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Every once in a while I do a podcast in Spanish, and talk about what it means to be Latino today, in the U.S. Porque,

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The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones, a novel by Marcos McPeek Villatoro

The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 4

April 5, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

I forgot to mention, the 1967 Mustang plays a big role in this novel. It’s practically another character. It’s the summer of 1978, a few

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The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones, a novel by Marcos McPeek Villatoro

The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 3

April 4, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

In this part of the novel, you get a real taste of what some of us call “internalized racism.” This is when a non-white person

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The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones, a novel by Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Audio Book: The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 1

April 2, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

In the first pages of the novel, we meet Antonio “Tony” McCaugh Villalobos, an Appalachian-Salvadoran writer living in Knoxville, Tennessee, and far from his Salvadoran

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El Testimonio, capítulo 1: El Nacimiento del Pocho

February 27, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

¡El primer podcast en español! (But, like any Salvadoran party, everyone is welcome)  Aquí hablo de la vida del pocho–que significa, una fruta podrida, y

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