Bus Stops and Other Poems (Book)
Poems by Manuel J. Vélez.
Cover art and illustrations by Victor Orozco Ochoa.
Book design by Brent Beltrán.
ISBN 0-9660773-0-X / 1998 / Perfectbound / 64 pages
1000 copies published.
Poem order:
Bus Stop
Las Palomas Cafe
Flaco's First Day at Work Deseparación
Bus Stop
Conversations with Lupe
Zavala Park
Onion Fields
Bus Stop
En Los Zapatos de su Marido Vato Loco de la Maravilla
saturday in juárez
Bus Stop
Doña Lucero
Carmen of Miracle Candles
En Memoria
Bus Stop
Memories Fade
Behind the Scenes Bus Stop
1999 - Year Two
Raza Spoken Here: Poesía Chicana Volume 1 (CD)
Poets: Trago Amargo (synthesizer
by Héctor Ubaldo and percussion and flutes by Miguel Angel),
Olga Angelina García Echeverría, Sandra C. Muñoz,
Chuy Quintero, Christian Ramírez, Rasquachi Performers
(Juan Carrillo, José Centeno, Karla Díaz, Olga Angelina
García Echeverría, and Ana Rosa Ramos), Elba Rosario
Sánchez, Daniel Sánchez-Glazer, Taco Shop Poets
(Adrian Arancibia, Adolfo Guzman López, Tomás Riley,
and Miguel-Angel Soria with guest poet Jahsun Edmonds and bass
player Sergio Hernández), and Manuel J. Vélez
Booklet art by Victor Orozco Ochoa
Recorded by Rafter Roberts except for The Taco Shop Poets Manifesto.
Mixed and mastered by Rafter Roberts.
Produced and designed by Brent Beltrán of Calaca Press.
All poems recorded, edited, and mastered between 9/24/98 and 3/25/99.
1000 copies replicated.
Track order:
The Taco Shop Poets Manifesto - The Taco Shop Poets Sonia on Hope Street -
Olga Angelina García Echeverría Metzli Chingona - Olga
Angelina García Echeverría Vato Loco de la Maravilla -
Manuel J. Vélez
Rafa Chronicles - Manuel J. Vélez
Blood Ain't Salsa - Rasquachi Performers (written by Olga Angelina
García Echeverría) Tepalcate al Tepalcate - Elba
Rosario Sánchez Sowing Seeds - Elba Rosario
Sánchez
I Hear a Poem Calling Me - Daniel-Sánchez-Glazer
Heaven for Eight Dollars - Daniel-Sánchez-Glazer
For my sister who thinks I'm unhappy because I, like her, don't
wear a size 6 - Sandra C. Muñoz
Free Metal Woman - Sandra C. Muñoz El mar y el muro - Christian
Ramírez Sobre Baghdad han caído
las bombas - Christian Ramírez Holidays of el barrio
- Chuy Quintero
The Out of Order Sign is Out of Order - Chuy Quintero Revolucíon - Trago
Amargo
Chorizo Tonguefire (CD)
Poets: Taco Shop Poets
(Adrian Arancibia, Adolfo Guzman López, Tomás Riley,
and Miguel-Angel Soria)
Musicians: Mikey Figgins (bass and conga), Kevin P. Green (drums),
and Lennon Honor (flute)
All music written by Mikey Figgins and Kevin P. Green except:
bassline on "Grey Grease" written by Tomás Riley.
All tracks produced by the Taco Shop Poets.
Executive Producer: Miguel-Angel Soria
Co-producer: Calaca Press
Engineer: Mike Kamoo
Mixed by Mike Kamoo and Mikey Figgins
Mastering and additional mixing by Rafter Roberts.
Recorded at the Temple, July 17, 1999.
Booklet and traycard design by Tomás Riley and Brent Beltrán.
Cover and traycard photo by Juan Pazos.
Additional photos by Brent Beltrán.
1000 copies replicated.
Track order:
The Taco Shop Poets Manifesto Part 1 - The Tacos Shop Poets
Salsa - Miguel-Angel Soria
Two O'clock Park Jams: All Things Being Separate but Equal - Tomás
Riley
Salvador - Adolfo Guzman López
The Low End - Tomás Riley
Grey Grease: For Raul Salinas - Tomás Riley
Silencio Pregunto - Adrian Arancibia
OJ OJ OJ - Adrian Arancibia
Nooks - Adolfo Guzman López
July 4th in the Barrio - Adolfo Guzman López
Anda - Miguel-Angel Soria
Geografía con Mingus - Miguel-Angel Soria
Forgive Me - Tomás Riley
A Taco Shop Canto for War-Torn San Diego - Adolfo Guzman López
Nada - Tomás Riley
Mujer - Miguel-Angel Soria
The Taco Shop Poets Manifesto Part 2 - The Taco Shop Poets
When Skin Peels (CD)
Poets: Elba Rosario Sánchez
y Olga Angelina García Echeverría
All tracks produced by Calaca Press.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Rafter Roberts.
Cover graphic by Daniel Sánchez-Glazer.
CD design by Brent Beltrán.
ISBN 0-9660773-1-8 / 1999 / Audio CD
1000 copies replicated.
Track order: Tepalcate a tepalcate - Elba
Rosario Sánchez
De vírgenes y rebeldes - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Woman Blood - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Moon Corn - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Máiz de Luna - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Ristras - Elba Rosario Sánchez
For the middle aged white man - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Baudelia - Elba Rosario Sánchez
After Nuevo Mexico - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Largatija - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Lizard - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Tunas a la luna - Elba Rosario Sánchez Sowing Seeds - Elba Rosario
Sánchez
Como golondrinas - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Urge - Elba Rosario Sánchez
A gift of tongues - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Lover's ode - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Me siento continente - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Hissspanicsss - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Sunday's chicken - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Lengualistic Algo: Speaking in Tongues - Olga Angelina García
Echeverría
Miquitzli - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
Poem for Frida - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
Mamá Azúcar - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
Sonia on Hope Street -
Olga Angelina García Echeverría
Quemando Tortillas - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
Tequila Blue - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
Abuelita - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
El día, el puente y yo - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
Fences - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
Beso - Olga Angelina García Echeverría
2000 - Year Three
Campesino Fingerprints
(Chapbook)
Author: Rod Ricardo-Livingstone
Cover art and illustrations: Victor Orozco Ochoa
Photo: Brent Beltrán
ISBN 0-9660773-2-6 / 2000 / Saddlestitched / 30 pages
500 copies published.
Poem order:
meXstizo Summer Fruits Cuentos
Viejos
After Cesar's Funeral
La Frontera
Notes from the Gypsy-Jazz Café
Suburban Sacred Fire
Earth Song
Mainlining Language
New Warrior Recipe
Ocellotlin - Jagua Movement
Waiting in LAX
Open Skies, Strong Hearts
Body Song
Cante Jondo
Coffeeshop Conquest
Tlazoltéotl
Presidio Park Revisited
Recuerdos de Ceguera
Sympathy for the Devil
Element Prayer
Atop Presidio Hill
Above Coyote Canyon
Flower Body
as our barrio turns...who the yoke b on?
(Book)
Author: alurista
Cover art by Sal Barajas.
Cover and book design by Sal Barajas and Calaca Press.
Page layout by Calaca Press.
Inside cover text by Marco A. Anguiano.
ISBN 0-9660773-3-4 / 2000 / perfectbound / 124 pages
1000 copies published.
Raza Spoken Here 2 (CD)
Poets: alurista, tatiana
de la tierra, Tammy Gomez con La Palabra (Tony Gilchriest, guitar,
Dylan Jones, bass, and Chris Deaner, drums), Grito Serpentino
(Marc Pinate, words/voice, José Arroyo, guitar, Mikey Chacon,
bass, Charles Castillo, drums, and Patrick Dicochea, keyboards),
Leticia Hernández-Linares, alejandra ibarra, robertkarimi
(Michael Beltran, bass, and Mike Kamoo, guitar and drums), Los
Delicados (Darren de León, Paul S. Flores, and Norman Zelaya
with Jimmy Biala, percussion), Rod Ricardo-Livingstone, raúlrsalinas
(Mikey Figgins, bass/trumpet, and Kevin P. Green, drums), and
Antonieta Villamil.
Booklet art by Mario Torero.
Booklet design and layout by Calaca Press.
All photos by Calaca Press except for photos of Tammy Gomez (Todd
Wolfson) and tatiana de la tierra (Marlene Andrucz).
All tracks produced by Calaca Press except On Language and Don't
Worry About It (Pesadilla).
All tracks recorded between 1/8/00 and 10/20/00 at Earthling Studios
in El Cajon, Califas, except On Language and Don't Worry About
It (Pesadilla).
Engineeded, mixed and mastered by Mike Kamoo, except On Language
and Don't Worry About It (Pesadilla).
ISBN 0-9660773-4-2 / 2000 / Audio CD
1000 copies replicated.
Track order:
We Hafta Shaft NAFTA - raúlrsalinas (Recorded 5/20/00)
Amorindio - raúlrsalinas (Recorded 5/20/00)
Conversaciones - Leticia Hernández-Linarez (Recorded 7/9/00)
Gold Rush - Leticia Hernández-Linares (Recorded 7/9/00)
Casamiento - tatiana de la tierra (Recorded 8/19/00)
El Baile - tatiana de tierra (Recorded 8/19/00)
Seis Maletas - tatiana de la tierra (Recorded 8/19/00)
Summer Fruits - Rod Ricardo-Livingstone (Recorded 6/3/00)
Cuentos Viejos - Rod Ricardo-Livingstone (Recorded 6/3/00)
meXtizo - Rod Ricardo-Livingstone (Recorded 6/3/00)
Suave y lento - Antonieta villamil (Recorded 6/17/00)
Gozo en la sopa - Antonieta villamil (Recorded 6/17/00)
Bebe de este cantaró - Antonieta villamil (Recorded 6/17/00)
Santa Perversa - alejandra ibarra (Recorded 6/26/00)
Desmembrada - alejandra ibarra (Recorded 6/26/00)
Orchidia - alejandra ibarra (Recorded 6/26/00)
¡Presente! Heroes/Sheroesy Otras Cosas - Los Delicados (Recorded
5/6/00)
The Reinvention of Zero - robertkarimi (Recorded 7/1/00)
La pena de muerte - robertkarimi (Recorded 7/1/00)
On Language - Tammy Gomez y La Palabra (Recorded in 1998)
Don't Worry About It (Pesadilla) - Tammy Gomez y La Palabra (Recorded
in 1998)
Mis ojos enchados - alurista (Recorded 10/20/00)
Allá ajüera - alurista (Recorded 10/20/00)
Fascil - alurista (Recorded 10/20/00)
Unidad - Grito Serpentino (Recorded 1/8/00)
Ode to the Taco Bell Chihuahua - Grito Serpentino (Recorded 1/8/00)
Los Many Mundos of raúlrsalinas:
Un Poetic Jazz Viaje con Friends (CD)
All poetry written and
performed by raúlrsalinas.
All tracks produced by Calaca Press and Red Salmon Press.
All music written and performed by Mikey Figgins (bass, trumpet)
and Kevin P. Green (drums, piano) except sax on "Tejazz"
performed by Tomás Ramírez.
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Mike Kamoo.
Recorded, mixed and mastered between 6/25/00 and 9/28/00 at Earthling
Studios in El Cajon, Califas.
Cover art by Joyce DiBona.
Liner notes by Abel Salas.
Booklet desing and layout by Calaca Press.
Photos by raúlrsalinas, Linda Lawson, Mary Bruton, Julian
Gonzales, Lori Hansel, Louis Mendoza, Cedar Woman, Francisco Dominguez,
evera, and Calaca Press.
ISBN 0-9660773-5-0
1000 copies replicated.
Track order:
Intro
We Hafta Shaft NAFTA
Pueblo Querido
Poem para la Dedication de un Mural
Riffs 1
To the Bearer of My Bones
Homenaje a la Pachuca
A Walk Through the Campo Santo
Bass in Yo Face
La Peste Arriveé
Drumsongs/2
Tejazz
Reel Absurdity
Amorindio
Word Descarga (CD)
Written and performed
by Los Delicados.
Produced by Los Delicados and Calaca Press.
Recorded May-August 2000 at Earthling Studios in El Cajon, Califas
by Mike Kamoo and at I'm Stein Recording Studios, Sunnyvale, CA
by Mark Stein.
Mixed and mastered at Earthling Studios.
Musical Director: Jimmy Angeles Biala.
All percussion, whistles and bells by Jimmy Angeles Biala.
Saxophone, flute, and clarinet by Masaru Koga.
Bass by Randall Hunt.
Voice of La Migra by Edward Joaquin Rodriguez.
Calaca claps on ¡Presente!
Cover and traycard art by Isis Rodriguez.
Liner notes by Camille Taiara.
Photos by Calaca Press, ChitavoBus, Karin Hodoyán, and
Magdalena Monterrosa.
Booklet layout by Calaca Press.
ISBN 0-9660773-7-7 / 2000 / Audio CD
1000 copies replicated.
Track order:
CV Café #1 - Los Delicados
¡Presente! Heroes/Sheroes y Otras Cosas - Los Delicadoa
'52 Buick - Norman Zelaya
Este Ritmo de Mi Barrio - Los Delicados
CV Cafe #2 - Los Delicados
Turn Pain Into Power - Darren de León
Bryant Street - Paul S. Flores
I Know They Will Not Be Satisfied... - Los Delicados
CV Café #2 - Los Delicados
Word Descarga (Something You Can't Understand) - Los Delicados
Small Town Browny (CD)
Written and read by Simón
Silva.
Produced by Simón Silva and Calaca Press.
Recorded August 17-18 and October 10, 2000 at Earthling Studios
in El Cajon, Califas.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mike Kamoo.
Music by Pedro Rubalcava.
Booklet art by Simón Silva.
Booklet layout by Simón Silva and Calaca Press.
Photo by Calaca Press
ISBN 0-9660773-8-5 / 2000 / Double Audio CD
1000 copies replicated.
Track order:
-Disk 1-
Introduction
Cockfight Vacations
The Punch
Strawberry Face
The Ultimate Home Remedy
The Graduation Gift
The Day My Brother Died
Ode to a Cholo
Wrestling Match at Midnight
-Disk 2-
The $27.00 Experience
My Padrino Was an Outlaw
Choco Milk and Other Revolutionary Drinks
The Last Bachelor Summer
Puros Frijoles
Orange Man
2001 - Year Four
Santa Perversa & Other Erotic
Poems(Chapbook)
Author: alejandra ibarra
Cover art (Last Supper) by Adriana Y. Gallego.
Layout, cover design and author photo by Patrick "Pato"
Hebert.
Forward by Elizabeth Rodriguez y Gibson.
ISBN 0-9660773-6-9 / 2001 / saddlestitched / 34 pages
1000 copies published.
Poem order:
jonsin' más ahhh... (masa)
secrets
orquídea
ven chuparosa, ven
gime
sanctuary
luna roja
liquid
dime santa perversa
mariposas
broken wings
dancing silhouettes
rencor
desmembrada
wings of flight
fearless
branded
caña
realizations at 29 succulent kisses
switch
i place my cunt
2002 - Year Five
Razor Edges of My Tongue
(Chapbook)
Poems by Leticia Hernández-Linares.
Cover illustration by Laila Balderas.
Inside illustrations by Berenice Badillo.
Design, layout and back cover photo by Calaca Press.
ISBN 0-9717035-0-7 / 2002 / saddlestitched / 44 pages
1500 copies published.
Poem order: Invocation
For Sale
Sweat
Zanahoria Girl (A.K.A. La Spazz)
La pelona blues, bald woman, hairless, Frida Kahlo's idea of death,
unfeminine, bald bald bald bald Cars that Go Boom
Always Born
Cuban Deluxe Cumbia de salvación
Wheel of Misfortune
Va-hee-na
Tearer
La sibila, la cigua, y la poetisa
Gold Rush
Santa Rita's Chicken Special
Soledad
Spangliku
Dormida con los alcatraces (for the painting by Emilia Garcia)
Apocalypse Mañana:
Opera Electrónica for the New Millennium (CD)
Written and performed
by Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
Recorded, produced, and sounds by Guillermo Galindo.
Mastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA.
Additional vocals by Juan Ibarra, Jennifer Ashworth, Randall Wong,
Amy X. Neuburg, and Kathy Kennedy.
Additional instrumentation: Paula Cekola, piano, Tom Dambly, trumpet,
and Lisa Moscow, tamboura.
Cover photo by Daniel Salazar.
Design by Carolina Ponce de León.
ISBN 0-9717035-1-5 / 2002 / $15.00 / Audio CD
2000 copies replicated.
Track order:
Califas is Burning
Performance Memory
Infect Oh Mexicannis
Border Duet
Romantic Mexico
Japanese Rag
Language, My Passport to Your Country
El Virus Mostachón
Back in LA
Aztec Mummy
Misunderstandings
Kali Mikiztli Califas
El Border Hamlet
Cyber Ave Maria/This is the Way My Voice Sounds
For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology
Para las duras: Una fenomenología lesbiana(Book)
Author: tatiana de la
tierra
Cover art (Smoking Prayer) by Maya Gonzalez.
Cover and book design by tatiana de la tierra & Kim Meyerer.
Edited by Patricia Pereira-Pujol.
Co-published by Chibcha Press and Calaca Press.
ISBN 0-9717035-2-3 / 2002 / Perfectbound / 160 pages / Bilingual
edition
1000 copies published.
Order:
Being When I say "I am" Dreaming
of Lesbos
The Art of Butterflying A Lesbian, By Parts
The Woman and the Lesbian: The Body and the Soul
The "Others" of Us Pathway to Lesbianism
Who is the One Who Says "I am"?
Forms of Lesbians
Us and Them: References
Us and Them: Laws of Desire
Tell Me How You Decorate Your Lips...
About the Tongue
Penetration
The Fingers
Nibbling
Feeling and Living
Other People's Faces
Lesbian Literature
So That I Don't Forget the Lesbians
Leaving the Tribe
On Phenomenological Herstory
2003 - Year Six
La Calaca Review: Un Bilingual Journal
of Pensamiento & Palabra(Book)
Edited by Manuel J. Vélez.
With work by: alurista, Francisco Alarcón, Francisco Aragón,
Debby Fernández Badillo, Esmeralda Bernal, Susie Carranza,
Michael Cheno, tatiana de la tierra, Abelardo Delgado, Roberto
Tinoco Durán, Olga Angelina García Echeverría,
J.J. Gurrola, Liito, Yolanda López Cisneros, Angélica
Meléndez, e. raul navarrete, Marc Pinate, reina a. prado,
Eréndira Ramírez, raúlrsalinas, Rod Ricardo-Livingstone,
Elba Rosario Sánchez, Trinidad Sánchez, Jr., Zaidee
Rose Stavely, Linnet Taylor, Gabriel S. Torres, Frances Marie
Treviño, Antonieta Villamil, and Rich Yañez.
Cover art (Dreaming of a Sunday Afternoon in Chicano Park) by
Sal Barajas.
Inside illustrations by Gabriel J. Vélez.
Layout by Manuel J. Vélez and Calaca Press.
ISBN 0-9660773-9-3 / 2003 / Perfectbound / 152 pages
1500 copies published.
Order:
Preface - Manuel J. Vélez
Bass in Yo' Face - raúlrsalinas
En la Mosquitia - raúlrsalinas
The Sweat Lodge Tnka Tipi or the Stone People's House - Antonieta
Villamil
Return to Break Fast - Angélica Meléndez
From the Republic of Generación ñ - tatiana de la
tierra
One Minute - tatiana de la tierra
Voz sin voz/Voiceless Voice - Francisco X. Alarcón
Dulce Lengua/Sweet Tongue - Francisco X. Alarcón
ojos café/brown eyes - Susie Carranza
suave - Susie Carranza
them - Susie Carranza
Ana Leticia Armendariz: Matando Cucarachas - Olga Angelina García
Echeverría
Poema - Francisco Aragón
Veo Lo Que Dices When You Write - Francisco Aragón
After Cesar's Funeral - Rod Ricardo-Livingstone
Reflections on a Vigil: April 28, 1993 - Rod Ricardo-Livingstone
Cuentos Viejos - Rod Ricardo-Livingstone
the word is indian - Esmeralda Bernal
Nuestra Señora - Esmeralda Bernal
medicine tears - Esmeralda Bernal
The i Before e Except After c - Trinidad Sánchez, Jr.
The Night I Danced With Etta James - Trinidad Sánchez,
Jr.
Treasure - Eréndira Ramírez
he and she - Roberto Tinoco Duran
not one - Roberto Tinoco Duran
prisons - Roberto Tinoco Duran
apologética - Gabriel S. Torres
Arte Poética - Gabriel S. Torres
A cultural awakening, visiting relatives - reina a. prado
New York is a White Woman - Frances Marie Treviño
Upon Virgins, Classic Cars, and Rooftops - Frances Marie Treviño
Falling From Grace - Yolanda López Cisneros
se ven (from the novel as our barrio turns...who the yoke b on?)
- alurista
n aztlan - eddie raúl navarrete
Corazonada - Elba Rosario Sánchez
Cholos - Rich Yañez
I Dreamt With Kramer - J.J. Gurrola
Taco Men - J.J. Gurrola
The Good About Having an Alphabet - J.J. Gurrola
Aquíi - Abelardo Delgado
Perfecto - Abelardo Delgado
Milenio Tres - Abelardo Delgado
The Woman Poem - Debby Fernández Badillo
Las Campanas - Michael Cheno
Mango - Zaidee Rose Stavely
La madre de mi tocaya - Zaidee Rose Stavely
Pensamiento - Marc Pinate
reflections of an ESL Teacher - Marc Pinate
From Gordon, Nebraska to Every Place - Liito
The Wedding at Esperanza - Linnet Taylor
Machetes y Mariposas: Poems
to my Chicana Sisters (Guerrilla
Chapbook)
Poems by Sara Rebeca Durán
Garibay.
A Red CalacArts Publication.
25 copies published.
With Razors Tied to Our Feet (Guerrilla Chapbook)
Poems by Raymond R. Beltrán.
Cover art by Victor Orozco Ochoa.
A Red CalacArts Publication.
25 copies published.
Free Metal Woman (Guerrilla Chapbook)
Poems by Sandra C. Muñoz.
A Red CalacArts Publication.
25 copies published.
Assault With a Deadly Donut (Guerrilla Chapbook)
Story by Olga Angelina
García Echeverría.
A Red CalacArts Publication.
25 copies published.
the interior (Guerrilla
Chapbook)
Poems by Victor Payan.
A Red CalacArts Publication.
25 copies published.
2005 - Year Eight
Mahcic:
Selected Poems(Book)
Poems by Tomás
Riley.
Design and layout by Tomás Riley.
All photos by Tomás Riley, except author photo by Guillermo
Nericcio.
Introduction by Guillermo Nericcio.
ISBN 0-9717035-4-X / 2005 / Perfectbound / 104 pages
1500 copies published.
2006 - Year Nine
Aqui estamos...Ya
nos vamos (Book)
Poetry and prose by Francisco
J. Bustos & Michael Cheno Wickert.
Cover and inside illustration by Ricardo Islas.
Design and layout by Cal A. Vera.
ISBN 0-9717035-5-8 / Perfectbound / 96 pages
A Red CalacArts Publication.
1500 copies printed.
