Podcasts about Cinco Puntos Press

*Trigger warning for this episode at book, as we do discuss briefly some of the traumatic experiences that are written about in the book. After today's episode, head on over to @therapybookspodcast to learn about our latest giveaway.   If you are enjoying these episodes, please leave us a 5-star review.   *Information shared on this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.  In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler speaks with Dr. David Dorado Romo about his book Borderlands and the Mexican American Story. We discussed a lot in this episode about stories that are often not taught about Mexican American History, why it is important to know for ourself, to teach about it, how it can be related to mental health and intergenerational trauma. Highlights include: 4:16 Dr. Romo shares why he wrote this book, including for himself as he was taught very little about his own history in school.   7:03 We discuss the bath riots. 18:53 Institutionalized racism.  20:37 Examples of young people protesting. 28:36 The importance of younger people knowing these stories. 30:05 Who this book is for and why. 32:44 Discussing why these stories are not told. About the author: David Dorado Romo, is an author, historian and musician with a Ph.D. in Borderlands History. He is the author of the award-winning Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez, 1893-1923 (Cinco Puntos Press, 2005) and Borderlands and the Mexican American Story (Penguin Random House, 2024), which was recently placed on the list of Best Books of 2024 by Kirkus Review and the School Library Journal. His historical essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, and Mexico's City's Nexus. Borderlands and the Mexican American Story is his first non-fiction book aimed at middle and high school students.  David is a curator and co-director of the Museo Urbano, a public history project based in El Paso that exhibited “Uncaged Art,” a 2018 exhibit the featured the artwork of migrant children interned at a detention center in Tornillo, Texas.

We round out 2022 with our first platica on the debut book and memoir by our friend and colleague, Yasmin Ramírez, ‘¡Ándale, Prieta!', out of Lee and Low Books (formerly Cinco Puntos Press). Yasmin is an English Professor at El Paso Community College, a 2021 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Author Fellow and a 2020 recipient of the Woody and Gayle Hunt-Aspen Institute Fellowship Award. Stay tuned for Part 2, and let us know if you've read her book below! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/literallyliterary/message

TPR's Arts & Culture reporter Jack Morgan examines the life and inspiration behind the man who created San Antonio's Miraflores garden; An episode from KTEP's public radio program "Words on a Wire" discusses the life and career of late poet and Cinco Puntos Press co-founder Bobby Byrd.

On this episode of Iron, Silver and Salt the boys look at the weeping woman of the riverside, the murderous spectre of Mexico: La Llorona. Adrian is still on berry watch. Will digs deep into his bag of tricks. Chris takes another deep dive into mythology. And the boys talk about how you can protect yourself and your loved ones from La Llorana. Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone! Sources: The Weeping woman : encounters with La Llorona / compiled and edited by Edward Garcia Kraul and Judith Beatty ; illustrations by Tony Sanchez. 1st ed. Santa Fe, N.M. : Word Process, c1988. Hayes, Joe. La Llorona = The weeping woman : an Hispanic legend / told in Spanish and English by Joe Hayes ; illustrated by Vicki Trego Hill. El Paso, Tex. : Cinco Puntos Press, c1987. De Aragon, Ray John. The legend of La Llorona / by Ray John de Aragon ; ill. and technical design by Rosa Maria de Aragon. Las Vegas, N.M. : Pan American Pub. Co., c1980.  

We kick off 2022 with our first look at Alessandra Narváez Varela's debut novel-in-verse from Cinco Puntos Press, Thirty Talks Weird Love. Varela's YA novel is the story of a young girl from Juárez, Mexico, who meets her older self at a time when the women of that border city become victims to violence. If your older self could talk to your 13-year-old self, what would they say? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/literallyliterary/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/literallyliterary/support

This story of the circle of life was written by Xeloda González and illustrated by Adriana M. Garcia. It was published by Cinco Puntos Press in 2017.

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) is a collection of linked short stories, which Luis Alberto Urrea called “a world-class collection.” The book won the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story and the International Latino book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories. Troncoso fills these 13 linked stories with the struggles and triumphs of Mexican/American immigrants or their children who’ve settled in the United States. In a nod to philosophical perspectivism, the view that perception changes according o the viewer’s interpretation, Troncoso presents characters who return again and again, in different situations, from different perspectives. Sergio Troncoso is an American author of short stories, essays, and novels. He often writes about the United States-Mexico border, immigration, philosophy in literature, families, fatherhood, and crossing cultural, religious, and psychological borders. Currently president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Tronosco is a Fulbright scholar and has served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Prize for Essays. His work has recently appeared in CNN Opinion, New Letters, The Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Texas Monthly. Previous books include From This Wicked Patch of Dust, which won the Southwest Book Award, and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, winner of the Bronze Award for Essays from Foreword Reviews. He is also the author of The Nature of Truth and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. When he is not reading or writing, Troncoso loves to bike and hike in the Litchfield hills (Connecticut). He is always on the lookout for great mozzarella and asadero cheese.  G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) is a collection of linked short stories, which Luis Alberto Urrea called “a world-class collection.” The book won the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story and the International Latino book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories. Troncoso fills these 13 linked stories with the struggles and triumphs of Mexican/American immigrants or their children who’ve settled in the United States. In a nod to philosophical perspectivism, the view that perception changes according o the viewer’s interpretation, Troncoso presents characters who return again and again, in different situations, from different perspectives. Sergio Troncoso is an American author of short stories, essays, and novels. He often writes about the United States-Mexico border, immigration, philosophy in literature, families, fatherhood, and crossing cultural, religious, and psychological borders. Currently president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Tronosco is a Fulbright scholar and has served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Prize for Essays. His work has recently appeared in CNN Opinion, New Letters, The Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Texas Monthly. Previous books include From This Wicked Patch of Dust, which won the Southwest Book Award, and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, winner of the Bronze Award for Essays from Foreword Reviews. He is also the author of The Nature of Truth and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. When he is not reading or writing, Troncoso loves to bike and hike in the Litchfield hills (Connecticut). He is always on the lookout for great mozzarella and asadero cheese.  G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It seems a particularly good time to release this interview with J.L. Powers now, as the world grapples with COVID-19. Jessica shared a personal story that can help us all, about the power and personal transformation that are possible when we read fiction."Books literally saved me. They catapulted me out of the fear I was experiencing as a person and into the realm of these other worlds, where I could be safe. I think that legacy, of books as a safe place, has always stayed with me.“Books as a form of salvation sounds a little over the top to a lot of people, but to me, I fundamentally see books as a transformative force in the world in ways that other things are not because they engage the mind, and the imagination, and the emotions. [...] That's what I bring to my work: this belief in books as a force for change."We can certainly use that positive force these days!In her books (This Thing Called the Future and Under Water, in particular), and in her publishing efforts with Catalyst Press and Cinco Puntos Press, Jessica invites readers in to experience the beauty and richness of the Africa she loves so much, but also the harshness. She wants us to see something other than what is presented in the media, a different perspective, and in so doing see our own country, community, and family in a new light.**J.L. Powers is the author of multiple award-winning books for young adults, most recently Broken Circle, which she co-authored with her brother M.A. Powers, and Under Water, the second book in a trilogy set in Imbali, an urban township in South Africa. She works as Director of Editorial and Foreign Rights at Cinco Puntos Press and is Publisher at Catalyst Press, a small publishing company she started in 2017 to publish African writers and African-based books.https://jlpowers.net/http://www.powerssquared.com/https://www.cincopuntos.com/authors_detail.sstg?id=101https://www.catalystpress.org/about/who-we-are/**Enjoy and thanks for watching!Lisa Carter Founder & Creative Director, Intralingo Inc. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BRYNFE5JTBFES&source=url)

CPP Publisher and Co-Founder, Lee Byrd, talk with authors Cynthia Weill ("Let's Work," Cinco Puntos Press) and Emma Otheguy ("Marti's Song for Freedom," Lee & Low). The writers talk about the powerful discussions picture books can spark, why they highlight Latinx culture in their work, and how they came to be children's books authors!

From the El Paso-based indie publisher, Cinco Puntos Press. Writers talk with each other about their books. This episodes features Sonia Patel, author of BLOODY SEOUL, chatting with Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee, co-authors of CHEF ROY CHOI AND THE STREET FOOD REMIX from Readers To Eaters. They had a wonderful conversation about the connection and comfort food can bring us, the concept of sohn maash in Korean culture, why we should make the world bigger instead of trying to fit in, and many more great things!

This week we are proud to feature a session from the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books curated by Pima County…

30 Minutes features a session from the 2019 Festival of Books curated by Pima County Public Library’s Nuestras Raices program…

30 Minutes features a session from the 2019 Festival of Books curated by Pima County Public Library’s Nuestras Raices program…

published by Cinco Puntos Press We were lucky enough to speak with Bobby Byrd, who along with Lee Byrd, founded Cinco Puntos Press in 1985 in El Paso, Texas. Cinco Puntos’ distinguished list of authors includes Joe Hayes, Christine Engla Eber, Daniel Bowles, and Beto O’Rourke. Since those early years, Cinco Puntos has gone on to win several distinctions from various arts organizations, among them a Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation and five publishing grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in recognition of their commitment to giving voice to their region and the literature born of it. We love how they describe their relationship to the work they publish: “Because we are so deeply involved with the books we publish, they are BOOKS to us, not products, not items. They’re more like children, and when people love them, we are very proud and very pleased. And even when people don’t love them, we still have that sense that they are very good and they give us a great deal of satisfaction.”You can check out more about Cinco Puntos Press on their website and @5puntosbooks.

A Song for the River – Philip Connors – 978-1-941026-90-8 – Cinco Puntos Press – Hardcover – 256 pages – $22.95 – September 18, 2018 – ebook versions available at lower prices. “The river that runs through the wilderness opens his heart: the mountains burn, friends die, and green shoots sprout from the ashes.” Philip […]

Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny (Hermosillo 21 sep 1973) escribe sobre diversas fronteras, la geográfica México y Estados Unidos, la de la academia, las de viven los niños al hacerse jóvenes, las que se les imponen a los hombres y las mujeres. El cuento es su género favorito, aunque también tiene novelas. Algunas de sus obras son: Gente Menuda (Voces del Desierto, 1999), No son gente como uno (ISC, 2004), Nenitas (Nitro-Press, 2013), Todo eso es yo (Premio Nacional de Novela Tamaulipas, 2015), Basura (Nitro-Press, 2018) así como de la serie juvenil Coming Out, seis novelas escritas por encargo de Epic Press. En 2019, Cinco Puntos Press publicará The Everything I Have Lost, que es la versión en inglés de Todo eso es yo. Actualmente es “Escritora visitante” por la Universidad de Texas y dirige “Casa Octavia” Residencia para escritoras.

30 Minutes features remarks made at the 2018 Tucson Festival of Books at the Nuestras Raices stage, a program of…

Bobby Byrd is an award winning poet based in El Paso, Texas. Bobby's publishing house, Cinco Puntos Press, recently won some major awards. Check them out: www.cincopuntos.com

Ben & Daniel talk with Bobby Byrd, poet, essayist, and owner & publisher with Cinco Puntos Press with his wife Lee (www.cincopuntos.com). Byrd talks about some of the poems in his latest collection, "White Panties, Dead Friends and Other Bits and Pieces of Love" and reads some selections from his upcoming release, "Talking to My Wife While She's Away at Church." He also talks about whether the recent drug wars in Mexico have affected his poetry, and why he decided to start a publishing house, Cinco Puntos Press. For this week's Poetic License, Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny shares 3 stories about bilingualism and English and Spanish translation.

Ben & Daniel talk with Lee & Bobby Byrd, owners & publishers for Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso. They talk about how they were introduced to the world of publishing, and how Cinco Puntos became a home for books no one else would publish because they connected so closely with the border culture. They also talk about the poetry collection “Beauty is a Verb” which features works written by writers with disabilities. The Poem of the Week is read by Bobby Byrd, and comes from the “Beauty is a Verb” collection. “Avoiding Rigidity” by Hal Sirowitz, who lives with Parkinson’s Disease. Writer Denise Chávez will also be talking about the upcoming Border Book Festival, which takes place April 19-22 in Mesilla NM.