Luis Torres, professor of Chicano/a studies, will lecture later this month on the recently announced 2005 One Book, One Denver selection, "Caramelo" by Sandra Cisneros.

The Auraria Library has copies of "Caramelo" available for check-out at the Reserve Desk. Local bookstores including Tattered Cover Book Store and Cultural Legacy Booksellers have many copies available for purchase.

Torres' lecture, "Patterns in the Rebozo: Cisneros' 'Caramelo'," is scheduled for Wed., March 30, 5:30-7 p.m. in TIV 329. The former chair of Metro's Chicano/a Studies Department, Torres has taught the literature, history and culture of Chicanos and Chicanas since 1972 and the works of Sandra Cisneros since the publication of "House on Mango Street" in 1984. He has edited and written about Spanish-language poetry written in the U.S. in the 1800s and about such education issues as the effect of language policies on bilingual children in public schools.

In addition, Torres has worked to develop the teaching of Chicano/a literature such as that of Cisneros in K-12 schools as well as in higher education.

The announcement of the selection of "Caramelo" was made by Mayor John Hickenlooper at a Feb. 24 press conference in the Denver Central Library.

For more information about One Book One Denver events go to http://www.denvergov.org/onebook/