Month: April 2015

by Lila Quintero Weaver

Facts to contemplate and amaze: 1. A high percentage of Latin@s are persuaded that a connection exists between global warming and human activity. 2. A majority of Latin@s feel global warming carries an extreme or very serious potential to affect their lives.

According to the findings of a new poll conducted by The New York Times, in conjunction with Stanford University and Resources for the Future, an environmental research group, “Hispanics are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to view global warming as a problem that affects them personally. It also found that they are more likely to support policies, such as taxes and regulations on greenhouse gas pollution, aimed at curbing it.”

The article in the New York Times acknowledges that these findings challenge stereotypes about Latin@s, as well as common assumptions that saving the environment is of concern mostly to white liberals.

So where are the books…

high•ly tex•tured writ•er:A person whose work is to write books, poems, or stories and has curly or kinky hair.

Welcome Kyle Dargan to Librarian Dreams.

1. What is your signature hairstyle and how do you achieve it?

Well, and this relates to my writing a bit, I tend to only cut my hair when a close family member passes away. (It is a folk tradition.) So unless I am in the period of mourning, my hair is usually long—a bushy, curly afro. I used to push it back with a bandana or band, but now I am going to just let it go. I have a poem in the The Listening, “Old Ways,” about that process of shearing.

2. Which books could give insight on you as a person? Why?All of them, but only for particular moments in time. I think that since I am trying to…