Arte Público Press
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Arte Público Press, in Houston, Texas
, is the largest US publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by US Hispanic
authors, part of the University of Houston
. It publishes approximately 30 titles per year.
Arte Público was founded in 1979 by its current director, Nicolás Kanellos, Ph.D. Dr. Kanellos also founded and edited the Revista Chicana-Riqueña from 1972 to 1999. In 1980, Arte Público became a part of the University of Houston
, where it is housed today.
In 1992, Arte Público launched the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage" project in order to recover, index and publish lost Latino writings dating from the American colonial period to 1960. In 1994, they created Piñata Books, their children's and young adult literature imprint.
Arte Público has published Lamberto Alvarez
Victor Villaseñor
, Nicholasa Mohr
, Luis Valdez
, Miguel Piñero
, Sandra Cisneros
, Julia Alvarez
, Helena Maria Viramontes
, Miguel Algarín
, Graciela Limón
, Gwendolyn Zepeda
, Daniel Olivas
, Daniel Chacon, Rubén Medina and José Ángel Gutiérrez
.
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, is the largest US publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by US Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
authors, part of the University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
. It publishes approximately 30 titles per year.
Arte Público was founded in 1979 by its current director, Nicolás Kanellos, Ph.D. Dr. Kanellos also founded and edited the Revista Chicana-Riqueña from 1972 to 1999. In 1980, Arte Público became a part of the University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
, where it is housed today.
In 1992, Arte Público launched the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage" project in order to recover, index and publish lost Latino writings dating from the American colonial period to 1960. In 1994, they created Piñata Books, their children's and young adult literature imprint.
Arte Público has published Lamberto Alvarez
Lamberto Alvarez
Lamberto Alvarez is an American painter, sculptor, photographer, musician and author of Mexican-American descent living in Texas. "Lamberto" is his registered trademark...
Victor Villaseñor
Victor Villaseñor
Victor Villaseñor is an acclaimed Mexican-American writer, best known for the New York Times bestseller novel Rain of Gold. Villaseñor's works are often taught in American schools. He went on to write Thirteen Senses: A Memoir , a continuation of Rain of Gold. His book Burro Genius: A Memoir ...
, Nicholasa Mohr
Nicholasa Mohr
Nicholasa Mohr is one of the best known Nuyorican writers. Her works tell of growing up in the Puerto Rican communities of the Bronx and El Barrio and of the difficulties Puerto Rican women face in the United States.- Life and career :...
, Luis Valdez
Luis Valdez
Luis Valdez is an American playwright, writer and film director.He is regarded as the father of Chicano theater in the United States.-Education:...
, Miguel Piñero
Miguel Piñero
Miguel Piñero was a Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a leading member of the Nuyorican literary movement.-Early years:...
, Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories...
, Julia Alvarez
Julia Álvarez
Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
, Helena Maria Viramontes
Helena Maria Viramontes
Helena Maria Viramontes is an American fiction writer and professor of English.-Childhood and education:Viramontes was born into a Mexican-American family....
, Miguel Algarín
Miguel Algarín
Miguel Algarín , is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, and retired Rutgers University professor of English.-Early years:...
, Graciela Limón
Graciela Limón
-Life:Graciela Limón graduated from Marymount College , Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla with a master's degree, and from University of California Los Angeles with a Ph.D....
, Gwendolyn Zepeda
Gwendolyn Zepeda
Gwendolyn Zepeda is an American author.In June 1997, Zepeda started an online journal called Gwen's Trailer Trash Page. It eventually evolved into...
, Daniel Olivas
Daniel Olivas
Daniel Olivas is a United States author and attorney. Olivas was raised near downtown Los Angeles. He is the middle of five children and the grandson of Mexican immigrants...
, Daniel Chacon, Rubén Medina and José Ángel Gutiérrez
José Ángel Gutiérrez
José Angel Gutiérrez, is an attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party, a Mexican-American third...
.