Huizache #1-#8
Since 2011, HUIZACHE has been at the forefront of Latinx literature and art. It has featured works by poet laureates, MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows, and winners of many prestigious awards. HUIZACHE has also shared the talents of new writers who have moved on to publish celebrated books. On the first eight issues is cover art by César A. Martínez, Patssi Valdez, Gronk, Lalo Alcaraz, Diane Gamboa, John Valadez, Isabel Castro, and Chuy Benitez, and within its pages are works by Juan Felipe Herrera, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Tim Seibles, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Héctor Tobar, Domingo Martinez, Terrance Hayes, Laurie Ann Guerrero, ire’ne lara silva, Cornelius Eady, Jésus Salvador Treviño, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and countless others. As promised in its first issue, HUIZACHE continues to provide a home for voices that are often overlooked or, when seen, deliberately ignored. To hold the first eight issues of HUIZACHE is to hold the history of a people that is as persistent and gold as the magazine’s namesake, the huizache tree.
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Huizache #8
After eight years, HUIZACHE has established itself as the most prominent Latinx literary magazine in the country and one of the most preeminent in our nation’s and our own community’s history. Every issue is a visual flower, and HUIZACHE 8 has added even more raging bloom to an already luscious garden. This issue’s cover art is by Houston’s photographer Chuy Benitez, of everyone’s favorite Chico’s Tacos in El Paso; its interior art is no less powerful, with graphic pieces by Portland’s Letra Chueca and drawings by Santa Fe’s Israel Francisco Haros Lopez. But of course Huizache is about the literature: poetry by the well-known Sheryl Luna, Maceo Montoya and the always so many young, soon to be luminaries from all over the Southwest, Puerto Rico, and deep into México. Fiction in h8 has one of its best showing in stories by Daniel Chacón, Jaime Gomez, Michael Leal García, and two excerpts from two books set to become monster national reads: a novel by Houston/Liberian Wayétu Moore, and a new memoir by Sacramento/Mexicana Reyna Grande. HUIZACHE always follows the leaders in our art, and by doing so, it leads and projects; it defies cultural haters and dismissers, says No Cages! And exclaims that We Are Here & We Have Been Here All Along & We Will Stay Here. Our talent expands like our population, and so too our boundaries. In this era of racist attacks both coded and direct, HUIZACHE is a tree of sharp thorns that resists that ignorance and ugliness; its scented flowers of art and life, memory and wisdom, grow more fragrant and dazzling in color, grow stronger on our land, in our culture. HUIZACHE’s only want is to be as proud and beautiful as we are, and the magazine is always so gorgeous.
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Huizache #7
Now in its seventh year, HUIZACHE—the nation’s leading Latino literary magazine, home to world-class poetry, fiction, and essays from the original American West—is thrilled to launch yet another blockbuster issue featuring writers from the established Latino literary cannon and, as always, new voices with cutting-edge talent impossible to ignore. Today the West and Southwest are exploding with art and culture rooted in centuries of tradition and fueled at once by history and a new contemporary culture. The cities that once circumscribed our western frontier—El Paso, San Antonio, Chicago, Denver, Tucson, Austin, San Francisco, Juárez, San Diego, Fresno, and Los Angeles—are pounding with life. They are renewed by fresh voices and faces who are inspired by the sights, sounds and music of their own culture and times. HUIZACHE 7 features cover art by emerging Latinx illustrator Isabel Castro, a young San Antonio native, and a spellbinding collection of work from internationally prominent literary icons Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Dagoberto Gilb, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba. There are remarkable “lesser-knowns”: Tucson’s Farid Matuk and Cassie Gonzales, LA’s Raquel Gutiérrez, Mexico City’s Gabriela Jauregui, San Diego-bred veteran Taco Shop Poet Adolfo Guzmán-López, and Utah-born Mario Chard. Illustrations are from comic book legend Jaime Crespo, and the young Daniel Parada and Breena Nuñez Peralta—art that was curated by Latino Comics Expo co-founder Ricardo Padilla.
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Huizache #6
HUIZACHE 6 features the spectacular cover art by legendary Chicano artist John Valadez and offers prose from El Paso’s Christine Granados, Denver’s Sheryl Luna, Oakland’s Aida Salazar; from award-winning playwright Octavio Solis, filmmaker/author Jesús Salvador Treviño, and New Orleans’s Bryan Washington. Poets in h6 include California’s Lisa Alvarez, Texas’s Abigail Carl-Klassen, Mexico’s Christina Rivera Garza, New York’s Paco Marquez, Michigan’s Rachel Nelson and New Mexico’s Joaquin Zihuatanejo. A selection of linocuts by LA printmaker Daniel González is also within the magazine’s pages.
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Huizache #5
The fifth issue of
Huizache is as stunning as its predecessors: a ’60s throwback cover by Los Angeles artist Diane Gamboa, full-color plates by Caribbean painter Claude Fiddler, poetry by one of the East Coast’s most beloved poets, Cornelius Eady, fiction by the still-rising Chicano star Manuel Muñoz, an essay by a Chicana already in the pantheon, Denise Chávez, a mythic origin memoir by a homeless Colombiana in New York City, María López.
Huizache offers work from the edges, from the corners, and from our side of America: El Paso, San Antonio, Chicago, Tucson, Austin, San Francisco, Mexicali, Fullerton, San Diego, Fresno, Los Angeles. Alongside work by the well-known devorah major, Glenn Taylor, Pat LittleDog, and ir’ene lara silva, h5 proudly welcomes new voices such as Fernando Flores, Vanessa Diaz, and Javier Zamora.
Huizache continues to thrive in the Latino West, loudly proclaiming the beauty of its bloom. In this era when the Mexican character and the Mexican heritage of this magazine are not just dismissed or ignored but attacked, as though in a xenophobe’s fantasy cartoon, it continues to expand artistic boundaries, presenting dynamic work that could otherwise go unseen.
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Huizache #4
CentroVictoria’s fourth issue of
Huizache is its thickest, and arguably its fullest and best so far. As in the past three issues, some of the most nationally distinguished poets and writers are contributors: Rubén Martínez, Sandra Cisneros, Terrance Hayes, Rolando Hinojosa, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Dana Johnson. And then there are the soon-to-be well-known: Sheryl Luna, Yona Harvey, Maceo Montoya, Rio Cortez, Steven Ramirez, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Laurie Ann Guerrero. And they are only a few! As always, we are especially thrilled to give you our much anticipated cover art by infamous cartoonist—and soon-to-be yet more notorious when his animated TV show “Bordertown” appears this coming spring on the Fox network—Lalo Alcaraz. How can we not love that Huizache has its own punk Frida?? A magazine rooted and produced in the Latino West, Huizache represents the finest and most beautiful of those who are not born and bred on the right land, in the right cities, who are too often and too dismissively ignored.
Huizache proudly highlights those whose homes too many fly over or drive past quickly and distractedly, missing, as in the desert, the stunning complexity in the brown soil.
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Huizache #3
CentroVictoria’s third issue of
Huizache follows in the path of those previous with yet another display of original literature and unique voices from this side of America. We are proud to present the work of such honored writers as Tim Seibles, Domingo Martinez, Cristina García, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Héctor Tobar, while highlighting the early work of David Campos, Tameka Cage Conley, Casandra Lopez, and Joshunda Sanders--and many others. With our stunning new design both inside and out, a cover from the art of LA's fabulous and famed Gronk, our #3 issue is poetry and prose not just from the Latino world, though much is, not just from the West, though much is, but from a new American country.
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Huizache #2
CentroVictoria’s second issue of
Huizache follows the lead of its inaugural edition, featuring the leading voices in Latino literature—Lorna Dee Cervantes, Gary Soto, Luis J. Rodriguez, Michele Serros, Rigoberto González—as well names from the Southwest and nation—Naomi Shihab Nye, Beverly Lowry, Achy Obejas, and Carrie Fountain. With this issue, we add the just beginning, younger voices of Matt Mendez, Beverly Parayno, Melisa Garcia, Lupe Mendez, Laurie Ann Guerrero, and many more from across the nation and continent. An added feature is a tribute to the anti-book banning in Arizona, Librotraficante Movement, with prose by its leader, Tony Diaz, and poems in support by Margaret Randall and Levi Romero. Finally, there is the fine art, which Huizache intends to keep as a tradition. The cover is by Patssi Valdez, arguably the best artist working in Los Angeles today, and the gorgeous panoramic photography of Houston’s acclaimed Chuy Benitez.
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Huizache #1
CentroVictoria is excited to announce its new literary magazine,
Huizache, featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The magazine’s title is inspired by the huizache tree, a Texas acacia as thorny and tenacious as it is both invisible and ubiquitous, unwanted by farmers. Like its namesake, the magazine will promote fierce beauty that has been ignored. The voices in this magazine are motivated, not silenced, by harsh, unwelcoming conditions.
The debut issue includes prose and poetry from Sherman Alexie, Hettie Jones, Maria Venegas, Willie Perdomo, Aracelis Girmay, Tim Z. Hernandez, Sheryl Luna, Edward C. Corral, Alex Espinoza, Diana Garcia, Estella Gonzalez, Juan Felipe Herrera, José Montoya, Gary Soto, Sandra Cisneros, Sasha Pimentel-Chacón, Tonantzín Canestaro-García, David Garza, Emmy Pérez, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Tim Seibles, and Rene Perez, with original art from the renowned César A. Martínez.
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