Editorial News: We're pleased to announce that Juan Felipe Herrera (poetry), James Espinoza (nonfiction) and Daniel Chacon (fiction) are joining our editorial staff for our Literary Magazine. Editor Selfa Chew continues to curate Spanish-language work and translation.
Newest project: "Por Los Ojos de los Ninos: Border Landscapes" (funded by MCAD, City of El Paso), is breaking ground with a series of painting, photography and poetry workshops. We're currently working with students in Ysleta and El Paso Independent school districts in an attempt to document their vision of the border, culminating with a public mural.
Conference: Memorias del Silencio director Minerva Laveaga and Spanish editor Selfa Chew are presenting at Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea XIV on March 7,2009 at UTEP.
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BorderSenses (est. 2000), one of the few bilingual magazines in the U.S., has published fourteen issues so far.
BorderSenses thanks everyone for their submissions for Volume 15, a themed issue on double identity.
The submission period has beed closed.
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Eileen MIles
EILEEN MYLES is probably America's best-known unofficial poet. Bust Magazine calls Myles "the rock star of modern poetry" and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde." A virtuoso performer of her work, she's read and performed at colleges, performance spaces, and bookstores across North America as well as in Europe, Iceland, Ireland and Russia. She's published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti including Hell (an opera with composer Michael Webster, 2004), Maxfield Parrish, (1995), Not Me, (1991), and Chelsea Girls, (stories, 1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e). In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States. A former director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York and former professor of writing at UCSD. Her latest book is Sorry, Tree.
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