Everything you need to understand or teach The Latin Deli by Judith Ortiz Cofer.
Judith Ortiz Cofer first published "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica" in Americas Review in 1992. The poem later appeared in a collection of poems, short stories, and personal essays titled The Latin Deli. The collection received much critical acclaim. A reviewer in Booklist wrote that Ortiz Cofer's stories, essays, and poems are a "delicious smorgasbord of the sights, smells, tastes, and sounds recalled from a cross-cultural girlhood. Whether delineating the yearnings for an...
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica Lesson Plans contain 121 pages of teaching material, including: