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Red hot salsa: Bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States

Grades 9 - 12 English Language Arts

Editor and translator Lori Marie Carlson discusses her new book, "Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States," in honor of the Library's celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Luis Alberto Ambroggio and Claudia Quiroz Cahill, two of the poets who contributed to "Red Hot Salsa," read their poems. (Poems start around 11:00.)

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