The West End Press title, Always Messing with Them Boys by Jessica Helen Lopez, is one of the Tucson-Pima County Public Library’s selections in its annual Southwest Books of the Year list. Kudos Jessica!
Calyx, one of our favorite literature journals, has just published a review of Lisa Gill‘s Caput Nili in their winter edition. Margaret Randall, the reviewer, calls the book “a deeply human story.” Congratulations to Lisa Gill for garnering this significant review!
Here’s an oldie but a goodie. This photo captures three feminist powerhouses, probably at a women’s studies conference in Austin in 1980. From left, Audre Lorde, West End Press author Meridel LeSueur, and Adrienne Rich.
El Paso author Sasha Pimentel Chacón recently won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her West End Press book Insides She Swallowed, a debut collection of thirty-one poems that use rich imagery to explore the human appetites. Chacón draws on metaphors of consumption and sensuality from her family life and Filipino [...]
