Here are the first couple of paragraphs of what I’ll be talking about at the National Council of Teachers of English this weekend. I’ll be on the panel “We’re On the Case: Latino Writers of YA Mysteries,” featuring Sarah Cortez, Rene Saldaña, Sergio Troncoso, and Ray Villareal. Tinting Fiction: Writing Genre Fiction Geared Toward Age and Ethnicity When I was a boy there was a superhero called the White Tiger,
Yet another year goes by — with another special Halloween edition of Asinine Poetry. poems Dirtnap by J.R. McCarthy Henry Rollins by Richard Tyrone Jones The Kiss of the Rubber-Lipped Elephant by Andrew H. Oerke Proximity and Elapsion by Adam Vatterott Morning Constitutional by Ook, Warrior Poet Where the Old Winding Road Twists by J.C. prose A Clean, Well-Lighted Crypt by The Bare-Fanged Contessa* A Staff Letter from the Headmaster of Nobblesnuff’s Academy of Wizardry by Amy Vansant