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Ito Romo

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Author of El Puente/The Bridge and The Border Is Burning. Former Professor of English Language and Literature. Texas Institute of Letters. ‘Filth Eaters’ to be released May ‘26. Deep Vellum Publishing.

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Super happy to read with Stephanie Elizondo Griest and Jose Skinner at AWP this year in Baltimore. Missing from photo is D Seth Horton and Elise McHugh. ❤️👊🏼❤️ @sgriest.bsky.social

07.03.2026 21:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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@sgj.bsky.social Did I have to get both kinds of gravy? ¡Saludos, amigo!

06.03.2026 03:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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QEPD Pedro Friedeberg

05.03.2026 20:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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28.02.2026 16:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"In his masterful FILTH EATERS, Romo conjures a vampire epic across epochs and continents that would’ve shook Vlad, Dracula, Nosferatu, and Lestat to their bones, culminating in a Mestizoavatar of the undead who completes an occult destiny—to save the world. Try to be un-shook."
--John Philip Santos

27.02.2026 16:21 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Nothing like walking through your neighborhood to vote early. Vote as if your freedom depends on it. ❤️👊🏼❤️

26.02.2026 22:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gracias, amigo. ❤️👊🏼❤️

18.02.2026 19:39 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Gracias, amigo—always. ❤️👊🏼❤️

18.02.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The best breakfast this morning with my friend since first grade. May we all be so lucky to have someone like Patsy in our lives. ❤️ Hold your people close.

15.02.2026 18:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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09.02.2026 01:01 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

❤️👊🏼❤️

08.02.2026 02:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

❤️👊🏼❤️

04.02.2026 17:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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30.01.2026 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Bruce Springsteen’s STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS

28.01.2026 17:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 👍 97501 🔁 40882 💬 4302 📌 5361

Mexican writer David Toscana has won the 2026 Alfaguara Novel Prize with his work The Blind Army, a dark fable about the Byzantine emperor Basil II. The prize includes $175,000 and publication of the novel. The book will be available in bookstores on March 26.

27.01.2026 22:26 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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It may be time to break the glass. ❤️👊🏼❤️ Hold your people close.

24.01.2026 22:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...

13.01.2026 22:01 👍 4633 🔁 1493 💬 496 📌 619
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Happy birthday to my baby brother Rodrigo. Since he’s not on the internets, kids show your dad and tell him that I love him while you’re at it. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your brothers close.

12.01.2026 18:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America.”—Cesar Chavez

from Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Showed Us the Way, Maryknoll, 1978, 52-55.

Hold your people close. ❤️👊🏼❤️

08.01.2026 02:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hold your people close.
Tell them often that you love them. ❤️ Peace.

03.01.2026 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy 85th birthday, madre querida! Still as beautiful and amazing as ever! You are our everything. ❤️🎂❤️ Hold your people close. Tell them often that you love them.

31.12.2025 18:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Filth Eaters|Hardcover A high—strung and inventive literary horror that will delight fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Mariana Enriquez, Ito Romo’s debut novel traces the thousand—year lineage of a new kind o...

“Ito Romo’s vampires step across centuries with dignity, but with desperation, too—you don’t want to get close to them, but you can’t look away.” —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

30.12.2025 20:09 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Does anyone have any good resources for talking to kids about ICE? My 10yo is panicking about our friends and neighbors, and I feel maybe 75% equipped for honest but age-appropriate conversations and 25% way over my head.

(I don't want vague platitudes/reassurances or doomerism, pls and thanks)

16.12.2025 23:50 👍 70 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 1
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Obama includes NORTH SUN as one of his favorite books of 2025! Huge honor for Ethan Rutherford, editor extraordinaire Jill Meyers, & for Deep Vellum, the only small publisher on this list, the only nonprofit publisher on this list!! @deepvellum.bsky.social

18.12.2025 21:38 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

The Ruins! Congratulations to Ye Hui & his remarkable translator, Dong Li! We published this remarkable book in a beautiful bilingual edition. Chinese metaphysical poetry forever!! @deepvellum.bsky.social

18.12.2025 18:13 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0