Shows
The Write ProcessXochitl-Julisa Bermejo on Incantation: Love Poems for Battle SitesXochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and the author of Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites (Mouthfeel Press) and Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications). A former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, she’s received residencies from Hedgebrook, Ragdale, Yefe Nof, Jentel, and National Parks Arts Foundation in partnership with Gettysburg National Military Park and Poetry Foundation. Her poem “Battlegrounds” was featured at Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, On Being’s Poetry Unbound, and the anthology, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (W.W. Norton). Her poetry and essays can be found at A...
2024-12-1935 min
Selected ShortsFerocious FigureheadsHost Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about indomitable women. A mother grieves a loss fiercely in Carribean Fragoza’s “Lumberjack Mom,” performed by Roberta Colindrez. And Richard Yates’ classic “Fun with a Stranger” offers a portrait of an unforgettable teacher. It’s performed by Marian Seldes.
2023-11-1658 min
SGV ConnectSGV Connect 119: GoSGV and Carribean Fragoza's Scary Bike CrashThis week's SGV Connect Podcast looks backward at the first year of the GoSGV Bike Share program and looks forward to Halloween and ArroyoFest. First, we speak with Jose Jimenez, the education director for Active SGV about the GoSGV's first year, celebrated earlier this month. There are over 100 bikes being rented monthly at the moment and over 400 people took part in the program in its first year. There will be a demonstration zone for the rental e-bikes at ArroyoFest this Sunday near the South Pasadena HUB. You can get more information about GoSGV at their...
2023-10-2440 min
Party Crews: The Untold StoryBonus: Carribean Fragoza on Writing “The Vicious Ladies”Carribean Fragoza is a writer, artist and co-founder of the South El Monte Arts Posse. She writes about Latinx women and girls whose narratives aren’t always portrayed in the mainstream. In 2014, she wrote a short story for Bomb Magazine titled “The Vicious Ladies'' — inspired by the news coverage surrounding Emmery Muñoz’s real-life party crew following her murder. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2023-03-2125 min
FIVE PLACES L.A.06: (+1) Carribean Fragoza by Carolina MirandaCarribean Fragoza is a fiction writer and journalist from South El Monte, CA. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and was a finalist for a 2022 PEN Award. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte was published by Rutgers University Press and her forthcoming collection of essays Writing Home: New Terrains of California will be published by Angel City Press in 2023. She has published in Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, KCET, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtNews, and Apertur...
2022-11-1734 minSelected ShortsFerocious FigureheadsHost Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about indomitable women. A mother grieves a loss fiercely in Carribean Fragoza’s “Lumberjack Mom,” performed by Roberta Colindrez. And Richard Yates’ classic “Fun with a Stranger” offers a portrait of an unforgettable teacher. It’s performed by Marian Seldes.
2022-06-2358 min
Bedrosian Bookclub PodcastEat the Mouth that Feeds YouThree votes for Carribean Fragoza's Eat the Mouth that Feeds You to be something every high school senior is exposed to. This debut collection of short stories is genius, this is late 20th early 21st century Southern California. This is Chicanx, this is Latinx, this is SoCal, this is women, this is body horror, magic realism all in 120 pages. Ten stories about place and placemaking, about community and how we lift each other up, or tear each other apart. A must read! "This collection of visceral, often bone-chilling stories centers the liminal world of Latinos...
2021-12-161h 03SGV ConnectSGV Connect 87 : A New Cartography of Greater El MonteThis week, Kristopher talked this week with Romeo Guzman, a member of South El Monte Art Posse, about the bike ride series "A New Cartography of Greater El Monte," that they'll be launching this Saturday. SEMAP has spent the last decade excavating the region's history, and uplifting the art, culture and social justice contributions of the region in order to "rethink how we tell the history of the place and dig into its radical roots," Guzman said. This work has resulted in a "3,000+ digital archive, the book East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, high...
2021-11-0428 min
LIVE! From City LightsCarribean Fragoza in Conversation with Héctor TobarCarribean Fragoza in conversation with Héctor Tobar, celebrating the launch of her new book "Eat the Mouth That Feeds You", published by City Lights Books. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete.
You can purchase copies of "Eat the Mouth That Feeds You" directly from City Lights at a 30% discount here: https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/eat-the-mouth-that-feeds-you/
The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Carribean Fragoza was raised in South El Monte, California. After graduating from UCLA, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts, where she worked with writers Douglas Kearney and Norman Klein. F...
2021-07-0250 min
Dive Into The Full Audiobook That Keeps Book-Lovers Hooked.Eat the Mouth That Feeds You by Carribean FragozaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/221307to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Eat the Mouth That Feeds You
Author: Carribean Fragoza
Narrator: Marisa Blake
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 07-01-21
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 8 ratings
Genres: Latino American
Publisher's Summary:
In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them.
2021-07-013h 48
LIVE! From City LightsSesshu Foster & Arturo Ernesto Romo in Conversation with Carribean FragozaSesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo in conversation with Carribean Fragoza, celebrating the book launch of "ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines," published by City Lights Books. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete.
You can purchase copies of "ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines" directly from City Lights at a 30% discount here: https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/eladatl-a-hist-of-the-east-la-dirigi/
Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. for over 20 years, and at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the...
2021-06-2548 min
Libros SchmibrosCarribean Fragoza InterviewNew on the Libros Schmibros Podcast, the Carribean Fragoza Interview.
Vickie Vertiz in conversation with Carribean Fragoza, writer and artist from South El Monte. Her debut collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was recently published by City Lights.
Vickie Vertiz is a poet, educator, and frequently collaborates with Carribean Fragoza.
Learn more about Ms. Fragoza, and purchase her books here:
Buy Eat the Mouth That Feeds You
Buy K-12, at Eohippus Labs
Buy East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte
2021-06-1832 min
SGV WeeklySGV 007: El Monte's racist pioneer myth exposed in East of EastThe history book East of East began out of disgust with El Monte’s origin story as the "End of the Santa Fe Trail." In 2012, the city celebrated it's centennial with a wagon train parade based on the sanitized narrative of the southern pioneers whose descendants founded the township - instead of honoring Monte's actual residents, roughly 95% of whom are Latino or Asian. The book’s editors decided that they would investigate the area’s public history, centering the stories of people of color while exposing the truth about the pioneer settlers.
The project was founded by South...
2020-12-1820 min