10 December 2012
By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) I met Frank X. Gaspar at a writers conference about fifteen years ago after a friend of mine said, “You’re Portuguese? You two should talk.” After that, we kept in touch and checked in from time to time. I read his wonderful books and, when I got my graduate degree, […]
Posted in Awards, Azores, Books, Community, Heritage, Interviews, People, Pico, Portugal, World
07 December 2012
By Billie Maciunas, Contributor (*) Florbela Espanca (1894-1930) is one of Portugal’s most known and loved poets. She was the illegitimate child of a housemaid and a nondescript father who didn’t acknowledge her until nearly twenty years after her death on December 8, 1930, exactly 36 years to the day of her birth. She is […]
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04 December 2012
Billboard has named Portuguese-American vocalist, Katy Perry, its woman of the year. Perry released “Teenage Dream” in 2010, and became the second artist in the history of Billboards’ Pop Songs chart to take five tracks from a single album to “Number One” with her single hit “Last Friday Night” from her last album “Teenage Dream.” […]
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03 December 2012
By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) In 2012, the Portuguese American Journal featured interviews with writers and reviewed many fine books about or by those of Luso heritage. At the beginning of the holiday season, it only seems appropriate we present a Holiday Gift List featuring poetry, fiction and non-fiction by Portuguese-American and Brazilian-American writers. The […]
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01 December 2012
By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) In the 1800s, only the courageous crossed the Atlantic’s expanse from Portugal and the Azores, to face a dangerous sea and the badlands of California in order to reach a new life in the United States. Now, the highly anticipated book Power of the Spirit, Joe Machado editor, is the […]
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30 November 2012
The head of Portugal’s Air Force, General José Pinheiro, expressed “surprise” at the scale of the planned reduction by the U.S. of its military presence at Lajes Air Field, on Terceira island, in the Azores, but reserved judgment on the implications. “It was a surprise when we received [news of] of the scale of the […]
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