“Author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison died Monday at age 88. The acclaimed writer, editor, and professor helped transform American literature, bringing forth a black perspective that had rarely been heard. Jeffrey Brown reports and talks to Princeton University’s Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate, about how she was influenced by Morrison’s work,…
“Luis Alberto Urrea discusses “The House of Broken Angels” at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Luis Alberto Urrea is a best-selling author of poetry, fiction, and essays. He is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Urrea is also a member of the…
“Comic books, like all fantasy, is designed to serve as an escape from the world; or at least this version of it. But in our escape, what we learn is that the reality of fantasy is that fantasy is reality. In this talk, the audience will learn about the ways in which comic books can…
PalacioMagazine.com recently interviewed Luis J. Rodriquez, the current poet laureate of Los Angeles. The Friends of the Long Beach Public Library Blanche Collins Forum are honoring and featuring Rodriguez on Saturday, February 27th at 2 p.m. Rodriguez is the son of Mexican immigrants and has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers with fifteen…