Lorna Dee Cervantes: MANGO Publications - 30 Years Ago Today

“Thirty years ago today I started my publishing venture with the inauguration of my new press, MANGO. I was the original “kitchen table” press which inspired writers such as Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Patricia Smith and others back east. “Freedom of the press belongs to the one who owns one,” I was fond of saying. How I loved my little R2D2, my mailbox sized Multilith. I bought it from a guy who used it to make extra money printing pizza menus after cutting leads (the little wires on the back of stuffed pc boards) six hours a day with a group of women who didn’t know whether or not Canada was a state in order to afford her…. “

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