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By Millicent Borges Accardi Angela Costa Simões, a third-generation Portuguese American, wears many hats. She is an entrepreneur, children’s book author, podcaster, PR rockstar, consultant, and mother. Living in Fremont, California, she has served as Chair and Member of the Board of the Portuguese American Leadership Council (PALCUS) where she currently serves on the Executive […]

By Millicent Borges Accardi The writer Nathan Tavares hails from southeastern Massachusetts, where he grew up in a Portuguese-American community that helped develop his love for fantastical stories: everything from superheroes to mythology. In college, he studied English, receiving an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University, in Cambridge, MA. His short fiction has appeared […]

By Millicent Borges Accardi Meet Naka Nathaniel! A journalist born in Hawai’i with roots in the Azores, who spent much of his career covering invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, North Korea, Paris fashion shows, car shows and the Olympics. He was detained while working in Iran, Sudan, Gaza and China. In fact, he has worked […]

By Millicent Borges Accardi Last spring, the landscape of New York City’s Times Square changed dramatically with the arrival of “The Fantastic World of the Portuguese Sardine” store, located at 1582 Broadway, on the corner of 48th Street, run by COMUR a Portuguese canning company. “O Mundo Fantástico da Sardinha Portuguesa,” as it is known […]

By Millicent Borges Accardi Portuguese-Canadian writer Esmeralda Cabral recently released her debut book titled, How to Clean a Fish: Adventures in Portugal, published by the University of Alberta Press in May 2023. Cabral had already established herself in the literary world in various publications such as Gávea-Brown: A Bilingual Journal, The Common Online, Canadian Traveller, […]

By Millicent Borges Accardi Inês F. Oliveira’s debut children’s book Calvin And Sugar Apples will be launched this summer by the San Francisco based

By Millicent Borges Accardi Luis Gonçalves was recently named the new Director of the Portuguese School, of the Middlebury Language Schools, which

By Millicent Borges Accardi With roots in the Azores. activist and a poet Dian Sousa has been writing poems since she was five years old. She is the

By Millicent Borges Accardi A Luso American with roots in Asia, physician and poet Peter Pereira is a primary care doctor located in Seattle, Washington,

From re-definition to re-calibration, the poems in this book are artifacts to the early and mid-days of the pandemic. Though not specifically labeled as