Gloria enedina alvarez writer kingsley

In her dad was just a three year old in Cheyenne, Wyoming where he was BORN and his whole family was rounded up and sent "back" to Mexico. Gloria's grandfather walked his cattle from Wyoming all the way back to where his family lived in Mexico.

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Can you see my tear stains blotting out these words? Where's the app for that? When Gloria's dad came back to the U. This story came out of a collaboration with artist, Christina Fernandez. Read more about Repatriation here. Lately, she gets together with other women and they write poetry about food. She wants to make an anthology about it. This sounds so cool.

I want to go to one, and I can't wait to read it. I'm already hungry. For now you can check out her work in books such as this.

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Sweat lodges. It's all true. I thought you had to go all the way to Taos to do that stuff, but apparently they have sweat lodges here, too. I'm not going to get into it, but that story blew my mind. When I heard my mother say my name I would always hear Gloria Arboles. I was so proud of my name. Wow, I would think. Gloria Arboles. Gloria con hojas and ramas.

That's beautiful. I love it. Yeah, but then when I get there--to school--they never call me by my name. That wasn't my name.

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I only raised my hand to tell my teacher the second thing I had learned. I barely made it to the restroom. Was there a separation between your English and Spanish-speaking worlds when you were growing up? He was very nationalist. English was reserved for school and other formal activities, but otherwise eramos Mexicanos and proud of it.

It gave me that sense of identity, that pride. If you did you'd get in trouble. If they heard you speak Spanish on the playground, you got punished back then. When did you start writing creatively? I began writing creatively in high school. I hated poetry. But then one of my high school teachers introduced me to the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and I got so turned on to poetry.

Were you able to get encouragement for your writing? I grew up in a crazy negiborhood and the library was my sanctuary. I always knew I wanted to be a writer, so I went to the librarian one day and told her my secret.

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I mentioned to one of my professors that I had been writing and that I wanted to be a writer and mas o menos this teacher said the same thing as the librarian. Because of you speaking Spanish your diction is off. The most you can aspire to be is a secretary. I had a baby while I was at it too. What were some of your early creative influences?

As a kid, before I could read or write, I remember asking my older sister to make photo-novellas. She would draw monitos and leave blank bubbles for dialogue. Then I would tell her what to write in each of the bubbles. That was fun. We also put on these variedades, these shows that I would direct. It was the bomb. I was 4 years old and I was directing skits.

I remember dressing up my guy cousins in flamenco dresses. My father had planted milpa outside of our house, so we even had fresh popcorn from our own milpa. Are either of your parents artists? Interviews Harry Gamboa Jr. Artstream Free Mp3 Archive at dublit. Pages Swirling Alhambra. Leave a comment Comments feed for this article.

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