“This powerful, funny, profound, wise, crazed book is a wild ride. It is a bomb (a poem?, a novel?, a play?, fiction? essay?, comedy?, drama? all of the above?). I laughed to tears here and there while the book displays one of the cruelest portraits of our times. Bravo, Giannina!”—Carmen Boullosa, award-winning poet, novelist, and playwright

A man who had stayed on a rocker on the veranda and absently viewed my desperate perdition rose and came slowly down the steps. A headband under his hat, long black hair, sharp nose, and a wild Anglo-hating look, he was the Joaquin Murrieta of legend. He confirmed his identity as he stated, “Weak yanqui, I am Joaquin.”

Juan Felipe Herrera’s Rebozos of love announced as finalist for CLMP’s 2024 Firecracker Award in Poetry! Register for the award ceremony on June 27, 2024!

Join us for a virtual book launch event celebrating the release of Candlelight Bridge, a novel by Cara Lopez Lee on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 8 PM CST!

Jose Alaniz, author and comic of Puro Pinche True Fictions: Prose and Comics discusses his art, growing up in the RGV, border wall, Chicano literature and FlowerSong Press in this interview with Trucha.

Amy Shimshon-Santo and copyeditor, Avery Castillo, talk about creating language, remembering mother tongues, and the poetry of the natural world in celebration of Shimshon-Santo’s newest collection of poetry, Random Experiments in Bioluminescence.

FlowerSong Press its next installment of Essentially Poetic: An Essential Voices Monthly Reading Series for Community Building on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7 PM Central Standard Time. Reserve your spot today!

FlowerSong Press to publish Mi Carnal Frank/A Family Memoir and Biography of U.S. Congressman Frank Mariano Tejeda Jr. 1945-1997 by Juan Tejeda set to release in February 2024.