Bøger af Gerald Padilla

This year's issue contains a broad range of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual arts, book reviews, and essays. The authors and artists in this magazine represent countries from around Latin America and abroad. This collection includes an interview with the award-winning author Julia Alvarez. The voices compiled in this edition move the Latinx narrative forward, stirring, shaking, and reimagining. Our magazine keeps growing to serve our diverse and vibrant Latinx communities, recognizing and honoring our complexities, acknowledging that the force carried by this change will keep moving us onward. This issue bolsters our mission and is a testament to our commitment. We are the four winds. We are the present and the future of U.S. literature.

This year's issue contains a broad range of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual arts, book reviews, and essays. The authors and artists in this magazine represent countries from the U.S., Latin America, and abroad. The issue includes a collection of work from the world-renowned painter Edgar Saner. The voices compiled in this edition move the Latinx narrative forward, stirring, shaking, and reimagining. Our magazine keeps growing to serve our diverse and vibrant Latinx communities, recognizing and honoring our complexities, acknowledging that the force carried by this change will keep moving us onward. This issue bolsters our mission and is a testament to our commitment. In this fifth issue, we continue to present the future of U.S. literature.

This year's issue contains a broad range of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual arts, book reviews, and scholarly work. The authors and artists in this magazine represent countries from around Latin America and abroad. This elegant collection includes magnificent artwork by Jorge Marín and Irving Cano as well as an interview with the author and award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa, best known for hosting Latino USA on NPR. With this new issue, we continue our purpose to bring you wonderful authors, scholars, and artists from around the world to showcase content that elevates our community's legacy.

En el principio de los tiempos existió la palabra, germinando primitiva en las manos que aprendían a sembrar, a cosechar un futuro maduro de sobrevivencia. La palabra fue soltando sus vainas entre los dedos, las uñas de las naciones que seguían labrando caminos. La humanidad, hambrienta de pertenencias, utilizó la palabra para darle nombre a todo lo que tocaba. Solamente el poeta recuerda la verdad de la palabra, su principio, las raíces que brotaban de la creación envolvente, la verdad de la palabra que deja flores en el pecho y busca no la posesión, sino la libertad. Sólo se puede ser libre cuando uno se sabe parte del todo. En esta antología de poetas se celebra el espacio que habitamos, las lianas de poesía que nos atan a la vida que existe y palpita en nuestros alrededores. Esta poesía que nos habita, legado fiel de una siembra milenaria, se expresa en las voces de 38 poetas de Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos. Se dedica esta edición al medio ambiente, en especial a la frágil línea, amenazada por fuerzas inconscientes y antinaturales: la frontera. Este espacio real, tierra fértil para la poesía y que salvaguarda la flora y fauna que permiten la subsistencia de nuestra carne, necesita de la protección activa, de la fuerza resiliente de nuestros cuerpos de color tierra. Hoy celebramos la semilla que se ha aferrado a la esperanza de nuestras manos, la poesía. Dr. Rossy Evelin Lima Fundadora