Melinda Palacio

 
NEWS May 19, Tia Chucha Press panel with Luis Rodriguez, Chiwan Choi, Luivette Resto, and Melinda Palacio at the 7th Annual Celebrating Words Festival 1-7 pm. The Tia Chucha Press panel is 3:45 to 4:45 in Room 5. Sedona Public Library recommends Ocotillo Dreams. It’s not too late to work on New Year’s Reading Resolutions. Professor Margo Wilson offers a new review of Ocotillo Dreams in Southwestern American Literature, volume 37 Number 1, Fall 2011. “These words metaphors, symbols, and ideals are sprinkled throughout Palacio’s novel like fine chili seasoning; not overpowing, but with just a bit of bite and much love and beauty.” -- Margo Wilson, Southwestern American Literature KTEP El Paso NPR, February 26, listen to Melinda at 11:30 am on 88.5 KTEP Words on a Wire. Daniel Chacon and Sasha Pimental Chacon host the show. Missed the show? Click here to listen. Hear my interview with DJ Aztec Parrot, Darren de Leon, on Radio 2050 kpfa.org. Ocotillo Dreams named a top pick of 2011 by La Bloga and by Chicana scholar and librarian, Maria Teresa Marquez Melinda Palacio named a top ten author of 2012 to watch and read by LatinoStories.com Melinda in Print: How Fire Is A Story, Waiting coming soon, Tia Chucha Press, Fall 2012. I have two new poems in the Mas Tequila Review. Eleven Eleven features a prose piece I wrote about my grandmother. Hinchas de Poesia features, “Sin Vergüenza Swagger,” a poem inspired by the trip I took last February to visit relatives in Panamà. The Southern Poetry Anthology IV: Louisiana, Texas Review Press 2011 and Phat’itude Literary Magazine’s special Summer Issue on the Sixties. May 2012 May 3, Spanish through Culture and Literature guest lecture, SBCC, Adult Ed, 6 pm. Cinco de Mayo, SB Women’s Literary Festival The authors for the Women’s Literary Festival in Santa Barbara include: Susan Dunlap, Heidi Durrow, Melinda Palacio, Michele Serros, Candacy Taylor, Rebecca Tinsley, and Karen Tei Yamashita. Mark your calendars for May 5, 2012. May 19, Tia Chucha Press panel with Luis Rodriguez, Chiwan Choi, Luivette Resto, and Melinda Palacio at the 7th Annual Celebrating Words Festival 1-7 pm. The Tia Chucha Press panel is 3:45 to 4:45 in Room 5. May 21, guest at WoWW, private writers group. http://www.tiachucha.com/events/may/index.htmlhttp://www.tiachucha.com/events/may/index.htmlhttp://www.sedonalibrary.org/news/2012_01_27.htmlhttp://www.ktep.org/program_detail.sstg?id=235http://wordsonawireradioshow.blogspot.com/2012/02/interview-with-melinda-palacio-poetic.htmlhttp://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/79013http://labloga.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-blogas-best-books-of-2011.htmlhttp://labloga.blogspot.com/2011/12/more-books-from-2011.htmlhttp://latinostories.com/Top_Ten_Lists/top_10_authors.htmhttp://www.amazon.com/Mas-Tequila-Review-Poetry-us/dp/1470009919/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329073302&sr=1-2http://www.elevenelevenjournal.com/http://www.hinchasdepoesia.com/Hinchas/HINCHAS_FIVE/cinco_contents.htmlhttp://www.amazon.com/Southern-Poetry-Anthology-IV-Louisiana/dp/1933896779http://www.amazon.com/Southern-Poetry-Anthology-IV-Louisiana/dp/1933896779http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/146378693X/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1931010765&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=10QH2RJSTXT3SS2YP9MQhttp://www.womensliteraryfestival.com/authors.phphttp://www.womensliteraryfestival.com/authors.phphttp://www.tiachucha.com/events/may/index.htmlhttp://www.tiachucha.com/events/may/index.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14shapeimage_1_link_15shapeimage_1_link_16shapeimage_1_link_17shapeimage_1_link_18
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Ocotillo Dreams

Book Review:

Fiction Review on PW

Publishers Weekly


Book Review: Dreams gives us another look at troubled borderlands: El Paso Times


Book Review of Ocotillo Dreams by Bojan Louis on Hinchas


LA Examiner Books reviews

Ocotillo Dreams.


EFE Newspaper offers the first review of Ocotillo Dreams in Spanish. Also on MSN Latino.


Fellow Bloguero, Ernest Hogan, offers his review of Ocotillo Dreams on La Bloga.


Book Review: A Poetic, Political, and Riveting Novel


The National Book Critics Circle Spotlights Ocotillo Dreams by Rigoberto González


I’m featured in La Casa Azul Bookstore

and the Latino Author


Susan Larson’s radio interview on NPR’s The Reading Life, WWNO


CASA MAGAZINE interview

Ocotillo Dreams featured in   NewsTaco, article by Yago Cura.

October 2, mention in La Opinión.


October 2, Article by David Steinberg in the Albuquerque Journal


October 3, Radio interview in Espejos de Atzlan, KUNM



September 16, ForeWord Reviews

Speaker and Book Club Information:

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