Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review Reading
Friday, July 23, 2010 7:00 pm
"La espera" by Liliana Wilson
On Friday, July 23th, 2010, a selected group of poets from the latest Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, issue # 34, Spring/Summer 2010, will read at La Peña from 7 to 9 pm. Please join us as we celebrate the publication of this special translingual issue. Featured poets are: Tony Beckwith, Rachel Jennings, Marcelle Kasprowicz, Pat LittleDog, Jenny Molberg, Trey Moore, Nick Norwood, and guest editor, Liliana Valenzuela, will emcee.
Poet bios:
Tony Beckwith was born into a British family living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He spent his formative years in Montevideo, Uruguay, before setting off to see the world. He came to Texas in 1980, and lives in Austin, where he works as a writer, poet, and translator. His poems and stories are regularly featured in publications in the States and in various parts of Latin America.
Rachel Jennings was born and raised in East Tennessee. Currently living in San Antonio, Texas, she has been a participant in the Macondo Writing Workshop. Her poems have appeared in the Appalachian Journal, RE:AL, Concho River Review, San Antonio Express-News, Texas Observer, and other publications. She has published a book of poetry, Elijah’s Farm (Pecan Grove Press, 2008), and a poetry chapbook, Hedge Ghosts (LaNana Creek Press, 2001).
Marcelle Kasprowicz was born in France during WWII and has been an Austin resident since 1977. She writes in English and French. In 2001 she won first prize for her poem /House of Bones/ in the Austin International Festival Anthology. Her poems have been published in several poetry magazines (Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Rio Grande Review, Iodine Journa, l Mobius, Gival Press Anthology 2008 and others). Her first book , Organza Skies,was published in 2005.
Novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist, native Texan Pat LittleDog spent her teenage years in Wiesbaden, Germany. As Pat Ellis Taylor, she published Border Healing Woman, winner of a 1981 Southwest Book Award; Tonics, Teas, Roots and Remedies, A Selection of Poems; How it Happened That I Came to Live in the West; The God Chaser; and Afoot in the Field of Men, which won an Austin Book Award. As Pat LittleDog, she wrote In Search of the Holy Mother of Jobs, and in 2009 won the Gloria Anzaldúa Award from the Macondo Foundation.
Jenny Molberg, originally from Dallas, Texas, earned her MFA from American University. During her time in Washington, D.C., she earned a Lannan Fellowship and worked as the assistant editor for Poet Lore. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Smartish Pace, The Comstock Review and The Louisville Review. She currently lives in Austin.
Trey Moore is a fourth generation carpenter from San Antonio, TX. His first full-length book, Some Will Play The Cello, was published by St. Mary’s University’s Pecan Grove Press.
Nick Norwood’s poems have appeared in Paris Review, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, Southwestern American Literature, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Pleiades, Ekphrasis, and in a number of other magazines and anthologies. His two commercial volumes are The Soft Blare (2003) and A Palace for the Heart (2004). In 2007 he collaborated with the artist and master printer Erika Adams on the limited edition, fine press book Wrestle. He lives in Georgia.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Liliana Valenzuela is an adopted tejana. An award-winning literary translator, poet, and essayist, her work has appeared in The Edinburgh Review, Indiana Review, Tigertail, and other publications in the U.S., Mexico, Spain, and Argentina. She is a long-time member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, founded by Sandra Cisneros in San Antonio, and joined the Inaugural CantoMundo Master Poet Workshop in Albuquerque in July. Through workshops, symposia, and public readings, CantoMundo provides a space for the creation, documentation, and critical analysis of Latina/o poetry. A guest editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, she is currently working on a memoir.