Category Archives: Latino Literature

National Poetry Month: Special Offers

It’s National Poetry Month!

This month only Free shipping on all titles

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Purchase any 3 titles and get $10 off!

email your requested titles to info@tintavox.com


Free TSP e-Book Downloads

For a limited time the Taco Shop Poets Sugar Skull Sueños e-book is available for free download. The group and crew at Tinta Vox just ask that you let people know what you think once you’ve read it! Send us a link to your inspired blog post. Hit us with a note on Facebook. Write a thought provoking email to info@tintavox.com or post a comment on the feed here at the end of this posting. Let’s get this conversation started today! Go on and  Get Yours Here!

 

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TSP in Highland Park: A Performance Review

On Saturday, May 26th, three former members of the Taco Shop Poets reunited for their first reading together in more than 8 years. It was a magical sometimes emotional affair as the poets reflected on the group’s nearly 20 years of performances. One audience member took the opportunity to reflect on the event: Read On


Taco Shop Poets Today in Highland Park

The Taco Shop Poets have not staged a reading since 2004. Armed with a new chapbook and e-book from Tinta Vox Independent Books, three of the original members reunite for a one-off this afternoon 5/26 5:30 – 7:00 at Taqueria My Taco, 6300 York Blvd. Highland Park, CA 90042. Admission is free, but seating is limited. The Taco Shop Poets will have books for sale, but you can also visit our bookstore to request your copy. Hope to see you today!


Taqueros Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Tomás Riley–Reading May 26th, Highland Park, LA

In celebration of the release of their new chapbook Sugar Skull Sueños (Tinta Vox 2011) two of Southern California’s Taco Shop Poets will reunite for special taco shop performance with Avenue 50 Studio (exact time and location TBD). Featured taqueros Tomás Riley and Adolfo Guzman-Lopez will read new work and revisit the formula that more than a decade ago was “credited with sparking the revival in Latino performance art” (SF Chronicle).


National Poetry Month: Special Offers

It’s National Poetry Month!

This month only Free shipping on all titles

-or-

Purchase any 3 titles and get $10 off!

On Amazon enter promo code: pomo2012 at checkout or email your requested titles to info@tintavox.com


New Review for Sugar Skull Sueños

G. Murray Thomas takes a look at Sugar Skull Sueños for So Cal’s Poetix. net. Read More


Taco Shop e-book available for download

Sugar Skull Sueños is now available for electronic download in an effort to simultaneously be read, brown and green! Please visit our bookstore for more info.


Leticia Hernández-Linares releases “Mucha Muchacha: Too Much Girl”

Mucha Muchacha: Too Much Girl (Audio CD)
Leticia Hernández Linare
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“A powerful singer, songwriter and poet—como una flor constantly opening, here are intense images, haunting metaphors, rich details: thoughtful and illuminating. These words speak to and out from violence in all it’s forms: state, domestic, public: a hummingbird as she crosses literary turfs and weaves talent, heart and cultura que cura into bandages for us all.” – Lorna Dee Cervantes.
Price: $12.95

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Taco Shop Poets new chapbook available now!

The new chapbook Sugar Skull Sueños  features twelve new poems by taqueros Adrian Arancibia, Adolfo Guzman López, Tomás Riley and Miguel Angel Soria. The book is available in both paperback and electronic formats. Advance purchases are available now for December delivery.

Read the full release


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