Flores Para El Pueblo

poetas insurgentes

seeking poetry and art for upcoming xican@ anthology



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"It is my sincere belief that the strongest part of our community

is among the visual and performing artists, who are keeping the movement
alive."

Sometimes There Is No Other Side: Chicanos and the Myth of Equality by
Rodolfo F. Acuña



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This is a call out to the entire Xican@ art community of all ages and
backgrounds for the submission of poetry and visual art pieces. We are
looking for work that will be medicine for our community and give strength
to our people. Currently we are working on an anthology that contains a
compilation of poetry and visual art.

We are interested in sowing the seeds of beauty in the gardens of our
peoples. Help us water these seeds with your energy & will so that they may
bloom into beautiful flowers. Please send us movimiento poetry & art so that
we may give sustenance to our community through these flowers.



Please submit poetry and artworks to: poetasinsurgentes@riseup.net
(see submission requirements at end)

Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2008


Everywhere that you find Xican@'s you will find flores that are specific to
that community since they are sown in that particular environment through
resistance. Let’s begin the process of gathering our beautiful flowers so
that we can all partake of their sweet fragrance; so they may give us
strength to keep resisting the wasichu toxins that kill our peoples; so that
our youth may know that they're part of a strong & beautiful people; so that
our community can be proud of their identity and not succumb to pressures
that tell them to lose their culture.



We need to weave a quilt of resistance that will provide protection for our
babies from the thunderstorm of society. Through poetry and visual art we
can spark this process. We're proposing flores para el pueblo as a way to do
exactly this. A beginning point to build a movement from the bottom up and
to the left. Please spread the word to the four corners of the world, so
that Xican@s far & wide may know that the time is now.



Let’s gather our beautiful flowers and share them with our people, with the
future generations that are yet to come. Let’s work this land so we may give
a milpa to our babies filled with these flowers that they can take care of
and add to.



Please submit poetry and artworks to: poetasinsurgentes@riseup.net
(see submission requirements at end)

Join the poetas insurgentes listserv at:
poetasinsurgentes-subscribe@yahoo.com

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Desde el jardin,



poetas insurgentes

email: poetasinsurgentes@riseup.net

myspace: http://www.myspace.com/poetasinsurgentes





If you are interested in sharing your flowers with our community please read
the following list of protocols for this project. Anyone that submits their
flowers must agree with these protocols. Submission constitutes agreement.

Protocols:

1) written works must be submitted in Word format, double spaced, 12 pt
Times New Roman, 1” margins

2) first page/coversheet must include:

- name

- age

- location

- email

- website (if applicable)

3) anthology will be made available to our people only in a PDF format
4) anthology will function under a co-copyright, meaning that anyone that
has contributed has the right to:

- sell PDF's for a maximum of $1

- give out anthology for free
5) anthology will be sold through LaNuevaRaza.org and the poetas
insurgentes MySpace for $1

6) anthology submissions must be the final versions of your work

7) anthology submissions must be movimiento flores