LatinX Audio Lit Mag

The Latinx label covers a multitude of cultures and histories, but we as a people are united in the way we use humour to dance through the seasons of life. In this episode you will hear straight up comedy from Carlos Greaves, and literary fiction with a humorous twist from Abram Valdez.

What do Van Gogh, Space, Grief, Mothers and Russian storytellers have to do with each other? And why are they on a Latinx-centric lit mag? Find the answers to these questions and more in this second instalment of story pairings.

A complete transcript of this episode will be available on Latinxlitmag by Friday April 8th.

This week, we'll listen to two stories that first played in Season One, and share a common theme—hidden history. A transcript of the episode will be available on Latinxlitmag.com starting Friday April 1st.

Julieta Corpus, author of 'The Midwife,' is a bilingual poet from Mexico whose work has been included in The Thing Itself, and the Texas Poetry Calendar. Her latest literary contribution is a collaboration with poet Katie Hoerth and visual artist Corinne McCorkmack Whittenmore: Borderland Mujeres, published by Texas A&M Press. It will be available in the Fall 2021. Julieta's first poetry collection, Of Love And Departures / De Amor Y Despedidas published in June 2021 by EM Editoriales is now available through Amazon. Of Love And Departures / De Amor Y Despedidas is a bilingual poetry collection about grief and lamentation after losing a spouse to cancer. The book is written in English and in Spanish because the man and woman who laugh, dance and love within its pages, fell in love reading poems to each other, and speaking to each other from hearts which had been molded, weathered, broken, and made whole again in both tongues. Julieta currently works as a bilingual translator, editor, and a South Texas Community College adjunct with the English Department.

Camila Santos, author of 'It's Just Dancing,' was named a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow in 2020. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in Newtown Literary, Columbia Journal, Minola Review and the New York Times. Her work in Portuguese can be found in Ruído Manifesto and is forthcoming in Coletânea de Poesia - Mulherio das Letras, EUA. She is currently working on her first novel and a collection of short stories.

Are udon noodles a magical superfood? And how did Angela come up with the perfect metaphor of an identity height chart? Get the answers to these and other pulse-pounding questions in this episode.

A full transcript will be available on Latinxlitmag.com starting Tuesday March 22.

Angela Acosta is an emerging bilingual Mexican-American poet and scholar. She won the 2015 Rhina P. Espaillat Award from West Chester University and her work has appeared in Panochazine, Pluma, MacroMicroCosm, and Eye to the Telescope. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Iberian Studies at The Ohio State University and resides in Columbus, Ohio. You can find her on Instagram at aaperiquito

"She didn’t know there were words

for all the peoples she descended from,

always took care to fill out the scantron sheet

to select the right (white) demographic bubbles,"

In this empowering piece, Angela Acosta takes us through the journey of a woman coming into herself. A full transcript will be available to read on Latinxlitmag.com on Tuesday March 22.

Angela Acosta is an emerging bilingual Mexican-American poet and scholar. She won the 2015 Rhina P. Espaillat Award from West Chester University and her work has appeared in Panochazine, Pluma, MacroMicroCosm, and Eye to the Telescope. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Iberian Studies at The Ohio State University and resides in Columbus, Ohio.

Are Sphinx Katherine's secret talisman? Can two people share chocolate chip cookies without getting into a fist fight? Tune in for the answers this test, and other ground-breaking questions.

A complete transcript of this episode will be available on LatinxLitMag.com starting Tuesday March 15th.

Katherine Quevedo was born and raised just outside of Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Fireside Magazine, Coffin Bell, Triangulation: Habitats, Factor Four Magazine, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. III and IV, and elsewhere. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys watching movies, singing, playing old-school video games, belly dancing, and making spreadsheets. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.

What would a Sphinx look like if it came from South America? Listen to this speculative poem as Katherine answers that question.

A complete transcript of this poem will be available on Latinxlitmag.com on Tuesday, March 15th.

Katherine Quevedo was born and raised just outside of Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Fireside Magazine, Coffin Bell, Triangulation: Habitats, Factor Four Magazine, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Best Indie Speculative Fiction Vol. III and IV, and elsewhere. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys watching movies, singing, playing old-school video games, belly dancing, and making spreadsheets. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.

A wise poet once said that poetry can be a time capsule. In this episode Melody takes us through a captured moment in her Abuela's kitchen.

A full transcript of this episode will appear on Latinxlitmag.com by Tuesday March 8th.

Melody’s passion is teaching and empowering others by sharing what she has learned. She helped launch an arts and crafts program at a children's hospital and also taught at San Quentin State Prison. Melody hopes to inspire youth to explore and expand their creativity through web development, writing, and art. You can find Melody at @MelRSerra and https://www.melodyserra.com.

"Your workspace, like an artist’s studio

The kitchen where you find refuge from a long day’s work 

where your hands follow a sort of intuition…"

Come share a glimpse into Melody's abuela's kitchen, where we learn the secreto to delicious food. 

A complete transcript of this episode will be up on Latinxlitmag.com by Tuesday March 8th.

Bio: Melody’s passion is teaching and empowering others by sharing what she has learned. She helped launch an arts and crafts program at a children's hospital and also taught at San Quentin State Prison. Melody hopes to inspire youth to explore and expand their creativity through web development, writing, and art. You can find Melody at @MelRSerra and https://www.melodyserra.com. 

In this episode we dive deep into this intensely personal piece about identity when no one in your new country can tell where you're from. We also deliver completely uneducated nutrition advice, and expose what writers really mean when they tell you about their "process." The last one will SHOCK you. (Not really. This is how you click bait, right?) 

A full transcript of this episode will be available on LatinxLitMag.com by Tuesday March 1st.

Constance Mello (she/her) is a Brazilian scholar, writer, and teacher. She graduated with a degree in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and is currently pursuing a dual Master’s Degree in English and Creative Writing. Her writing has been published in The Ilanot Review, Fearless She Wrote, and The Ascent, and was a finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards.