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Salinas, Luis Omar. "Late Evening Conversation with My Friend's Dog, Moses, After Watching Visconti's The Innocent." After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties. Edited by Ray González. Boston: David R. Godine, 1992. (Read by Rosemary Catacalos.)
Catacalos, Rosemary. "Swallow Wings." Again For the First Time. Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1984.
"Restoration of the Cathedral." The Progressive (Madison), vol. 61, no. 8, August 1997, p. 35.
"From Bolivia After All This Time." Again For the First Time. Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1984.
"Listen, Querido, They're Playing Our Song or Summer Ritual with a Poet Friend." Again For the First Time. Santa Fe: Tooth of Time Books, 1984.
"Glassworks." The Women's Review of Books, vol. 12, no. 1, 1994, p. 22.
"Women Talk of Flowers at Dusk." Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets. Edited by Victor Hernández Cruz, Leroy V. Quintana, and Virgil Suarez. New York: Persea Books, 1995, pp. 21-22.
"Insufficient Light." Floricanto Sí!: A Collection of Latina Poetry. Edited by Bryce Milligan, Mary Guerrero Milligan, and Angela De Hoyos. New York: Penguin Books, 1998, p. 60.
"Flowers and Umbrellas on a Texas Beach: Postcard from a Painter." Published version bears the title "Picture Postcard from a Painter." Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art. Edited by Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma E. Cantú. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, pp. 406-407.
"Borderline: Brownsville/Matamoros." Southwest Review, vol. 80, no. 4, October 1995, p. 445.
"Pumpkins by the Sea." Begin Here. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2013.
"David Talamántez on the Last Day of Second Grade." Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School. Edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999, pp. 166-168.
Dozal, Gabriel. The Border Simulator. New York: One World, 2023.
Dozal, Gabriel. The Border Simulator. New York: One World, 2023.
Luci Tapahonso reads for the 2011 Poetics and Politics Series. She reads work from several of her books, as well as unpublished poems.
Rolando Hinojosa reads widely from his work in English and Spanish.
David Lee reads from his work, including poems from My Town (1995) and a piece that would later be collected in A Legacy of Shadows (1999).
Poets Odilia Galván Rodríguez and Martín Espada give a reading inspired by the anthology Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice. Mari Herreras moderates a discussion by the poets after introductory poems are read. This reading was given as part of the 2017 Tucson Humanities Festival.
Roberto Tejada reads poems from Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022), which he describes as inhabiting the "actual and surreal" US-Mexico Borderlands. He also reads from a manuscript in progress begun during the Coronavirus pandemic titled Carbonate of Copper, informed by a widening and blurring sense of the self, the human, and the non-human.
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