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The Frost Place’s Conference on Poetry

July 12 – 18, 2015 

For all details see link below.

http://frostplace.org/latin-scholarship/

This scholarship is designed to encourage the Latin@ voice in poetry and the literary arts, both at The Frost Place and in the broader literary community.  It covers tuition, room, and board for the 2015 Conference on Poetry, July 12 – 18, 2015. Deadline for applying is…

·         Be of Hispanic heritage

·         Have a minimum 2.5 GPA

·         Intend to pursue or currently be pursuing a degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics

·         Be a high school senior attending an Austin-area high school (located in Travis, Hays, or Williamson…

18 women have come forward to say Bill Cosby, American actor, comedian, producer, director, sexually assaulted them. He drugged and raped most of them.  Probably dozens, maybe more, were on the receiving end of his inappropriate sexual advances and many others are probably unable to come forward.  I am still shocked how media and the public have difficultly separating someone's public image with their personal life.  Wasn't it clear with Robin Williams' suicide that you could be one of the…

Before I can start sharing about this year's national music festival: Austin City Limits, two weekends of star-studded as well as new music on 5+ stages in sunny Austin, TX, I have to reflect on years' past and the wonderful Latino music acts that have showed through the decade.  My first encounter with ACL Fest was my first encounter with Amigos Invisibles, back in 2005.  The band that never stops playing brings nodes of disco, techno, Latin "gozada" rhythms - Venezuelan beats that evoke…

Writing contest open to girls and boys ages 7-14 years old.

It is free and it can be written in

English/Spanish or Bilingual. We are not grading grammar, only

literary creativity and technique.

 

The objective of El Niño y el Cuento 2014 is to enhance cultural

development, literary creativity, and the interest for writing in

prose in children.



any questions email Larissa Davila …