The title poem's explicit treatment of a sister's rape sets a tone of guilt and moral responsibility that dominates Levin's first collection. The poem's ironic refrain, ""While my younger sister lies.

For two decades, children’s book author and literacy advocate Pat Mora has been rallying enthusiasm for and participation in El día de los niños/ El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), aka ...

Class, status, privilege; despite all our talk about equality, they’re with us wherever we go. In this poem, Pat Mora, who grew up in a Spanish-speaking home in El Paso, Texas, contrasts the lives of ...

Prolific author and El Paso native Pat Mora received the 2015 Texas Writer’s Award on Saturday, which came with a pair of custom-made cowboy boots. As founder of the program, “Día de los Libros/Día de ...

Born in El Paso, Texas, Pat Mora has spent the last three decades carving out a larger space for bilingual children’s literature in libraries across the U.S. On April 15, the bicultural poet, ...

Poet and author Pat Mora will receive the 2008 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature at the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival on Sept. 27. Sponsored by UCSB and the Santa ...

Author Pat Mora will soon be strutting her new pair of custom-made boots emblazoned with the Texas Book Festival logo, her prize for being the recipient of the Texas Writers Award this year. The El ...

Pat Mora, an El Paso native and a widely respected award-winning author, has won the Texas Institute of Letters’ prestigious Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement. “I take pride in being a Latina ...

Author Pat Mora recently received a 2016 Skipping Stones Honor Award for her bilingual picture book, “The Remembering Day / El Día de los Muertos” (Arte Público Press). The Skipping Stones Awards ...