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Karen: Why We Love Her So What does Karen have to do with 'No Country for Old Men?' Can she really 'take all comers?'

Coming soon. Pikes Peak Writers' 2nd annual prose and poetry anthology. Buy a copy: Support Colorado art & Culture…
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Coming soon. Pikes Peak Writers' 2nd annual prose and poetry anthology. Buy a copy: Support Colorado art & Culture…
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Dinner With [Ruin] "Dinner With [Ruin]," is now published in Phantom Drift, Issue 10.

Joe Barrera: Looking at Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya's New Mexican novel, Bless Me, Ultima, is complex, appealing to readers on many levels. A salient characteristic is the union of the protagonist, the boy Antonio, with nature, something that this work by a Chicano writer shares with 19th century romanticism and American Transcendentalism. This is not so unusual. Anaya is writing an American novel, even if that is not appreciated by readers. [ 649 more words ]
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thealmagrereview.org Rudolfo Anaya’s New Mexican novel, Bless Me, Ultima, is complex, appealing to readers on many levels. A salient characteristic is the union of the protagonist, the boy Antonio, with nature, s…

Joe Barrera: First the Night Then the Dawn

I am writing during Holy Week, the time of the passion. We are in the middle of our own passion right now. Not passion as in an intense emotion, though that can be part of it, but "passion" as in a test of faith and courage, and above all, love. Passion means to endure pain to the bitter end. In our culture Christ is the foremost example of this kind of passion. [ 691 more words ]
http://thealmagrereview.org/2020/04/11/joe-barrera-first-the-night-then-the-dawn/

thealmagrereview.org I am writing during Holy Week, the time of the passion. We are in the middle of our own passion right now. Not passion as in an intense emotion, though that can be part of it, but “passion& #8…

The Death of the American Republic — The Thomas Jefferson Hour

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jeffersonhour.com My pessimism and fear come from the fact that nobody in the Republican Party condemned President Trump’s actions. No Republican said that Mr. Trump’s attempt to pressure Ukraine into announcing an investigation of his chief political rival in the 2020 election was wrong, a violation of public tr...

John Lewis: Stepping Down

Due to changes in my professional life over the last year, I am no longer in a position to provide the time and energy toward the Almagre Review as a biannual publication. I am stepping down from my editorial role in deference to these circumstances. It has been an honor to work with each and every contributor the last few years -- with six novel length editions containing stories and poetry from people all over the world. [ 172 more words ]
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thealmagrereview.org Due to changes in my professional life over the last year, I am no longer in a position to provide the time and energy toward the Almagre Review as a biannual publication. I am stepping down from m…

Joe Barrera: We Must End the War on Drugs

I have always stayed away from drugs, legal or otherwise, but they are a problem that we can’t ignore anymore. Recent events reveal the futility of drug prohibition. The massacre of the LeBaron fundamentalist Mormons in the Mexican border state of Sonora is a terrible tragedy. The large extended LeBaron families are descended from immigrants who fled to Mexico in the late 19th century to practice freely their religion which allows for polygamy or plural marriage, as the Mormons call it. [ 852 more words ]
http://thealmagrereview.org/2019/11/12/joe-barrera-we-must-end-the-war-on-drugs/

thealmagrereview.org I have always stayed away from drugs, legal or otherwise, but they are a problem that we can’t ignore anymore. Recent events reveal the futility of drug prohibition. The massacre of the LeBaron fun…

Jurassic Snark Vol. 1

mailchi.mp For as long as I can remember, I have always been the most interesting person in the room. This is an opinion based on nothing other than my own astounding arrogance, but since proving otherwise is impossible, it may as well be a fact. How did I achieve this tremendous standing among my peers and e...

Joe Barrera: My Motives in 1967

I have been asked my times about my reasons for fighting in Vietnam. This was especially true at Colorado College, the wonderful paradise of innocence in the early '70s when I was a student there. My answer did not satisfy the anti-war people who made life hard for me, but this is what I would say: When I was a boy in Catholic school I would read books by Fr. [ 686 more words ]
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thealmagrereview.org I have been asked my times about my reasons for fighting in Vietnam. This was especially true at Colorado College, the wonderful paradise of innocence in the early ’70s when I was a student t…

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Call for Submissions: ISSUE 7, “The Chicana/o Collection”

MAY 2019, The Almagre Review, a Colorado literary journal, is now open for submissions for the Chicana and Chicano Issue, to be published in Fall 2019. Deadline for submissions will be September 16, 2019. We are primarily looking for fiction and essay/memoirs. We are also interested in black & white artwork. The focus of this issue of The Almagre Review is the identity of Chicanos, who can be characterized as Mexican Americans with a conscience-consciousness. [ 173 more words ]
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thealmagrereview.org MAY 2019, The Almagre Review, a Colorado literary journal, is now open for submissions for the Chicana and Chicano Issue, to be published in Fall 2019. Deadline for submissions will be September 16…

Friend of the Almagre, and contributor to Issue 4: Language & Music, Constance Squires...