The Keokuk Association of Rights and Equality or KARE is currently holding its Hispanic Heritage Month essay contest for students in Keokuk.

Sandra Cisneros reflects on The House on Mango Street turning 40, why she wrote the book, her inspirations and more.

Jimenez-Perez shared several authors she believes people should read this Hispanic Heritage Month. These books are available ...

Julia Alvarez describes writing as an act of “un-selving.” What the Dominican American poet and novelist means is that authors give life to their characters by feeding them bits of their own ...

Paul Collins’ community art project uses ‘big, goofy, joy-filled books’ as a reaction to book challenges across the state ...

Orhan Pamuk’s 2009 novel “The Museum of Innocence,” takes place in the 1970s and 1980s and is about a wealthy man’s intense ...

Volatile U.S. financial markets are particularly vulnerable right now to foreign shocks. Todd Field’s tale of a famous ...

Thanks to the Institute, the Inland region is producing a growing abundance of diverse and engaging writers who have ...

Critically-acclaimed author Julia Alvarez is the focus of the American Masters documentary, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined ...

San Antonio writers Rosemary Catacalos and Carmen Tafolla often joked about how they had managed to become the first and second Latina poet laureates for the state of Texas, an honor they received in ...

Tony Diaz used to see Texas as something of a desert—an environment that could be barren, and occasionally hostile—at least ...