tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58303024530837331732012-02-16T10:15:05.270-08:00Two chicks from Chuco talking litChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-33755560603571747652011-06-22T12:52:00.000-07:002011-06-22T15:57:09.277-07:00

Hey Senator Tommy Williams,If you were a peace officer and you stopped one of these individuals for running a red light or failure to make a complete stop at a stop sign, which one would you question about their immigration status?You shouldn’t have questioned a single one. They are all members of my family and were born and raised in the United States. They’ve been here for four, five, and six

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-32643273215431264142011-04-25T12:54:00.000-07:002011-04-25T13:02:54.288-07:00

This article first appeared in the Austin American-Statesman's online website, Thursday, March 10, 2011.Christine Granados, Special ContributorI am a part of this minority-majority in Texas that the new Census figures have spotlighted. As a member of this group and as an educator, I believe we can no longer teach high school history, English, and social studies the same way we have been teaching

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Much like the newly developed chip that generates energy using body movement to power electronic devices, Latinos will power the workforce and recharge this country's birthrate. Here in Texas, Mexican-Americans are the fastest growing population.Latinos account for 38 percent of the total population in the Lone Star State - growing by 42 percent, according to Census Bureau statistics. When

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-46422340028527324122010-10-28T20:37:00.000-07:002010-10-28T20:45:39.362-07:00

Thought I would post this guest column from the Victoria Advocate, because I haven't updated in a quite a while.Originally published September 29, 2010 at 5:36 p.m., updated September 29, 2010 at 5:36 p.m.Pues, what can I say besides quiúbole a todos.I was born and raised in the low class, rascuache way so many Spanish and English purists find offensive.I'm one of "them" third generation

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-18284130397696840212009-03-13T11:44:00.000-07:002009-03-13T11:46:32.642-07:00

I have never once gotten through Pat Mora’s poem “Elena” without crying, so heartfelt and beautiful—a mother’s worst fear. It’s the last line that chokes me. Conversely, I can’t read Angela Vigil-Piñón’s “por la calle Zarzamora” without laughing at the coquettish women that saunter into the bar. I have been one of those women, Aqua Net y todo. I have seen these women and they ARE beautiful. I’ve

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-3695137354200899762009-01-23T07:21:00.000-08:002009-01-23T07:27:38.765-08:00

I’ve been reading the newspaper, not just scanning it online like I used to, which tells me I was starved to see a person of color in a position of power. I never really cared what happened in the newspaper because what was in it never reflected me, or anyone I knew in the Mexican American community. It was a running joke in our family, how terrible our community newspaper was at representing the

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-27624297360359495422009-01-13T10:37:00.000-08:002009-01-13T10:39:26.290-08:00

This, this is what I like seeing. http://verseandharmony.blogspot.com/Way to go Chuco!

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-76161120418690452912008-11-06T07:36:00.000-08:002008-11-06T13:31:39.146-08:00

The geeks of America made this the ‘funnest’ election ever. It was a break through and I’m not just talking for obvious reasons, the people electing the first black president of the United States, but also because of all those cooo-el graphics. County-by-county voting results were just a mouse click away. The techies did an awesome job. I couldn’t decide whose maps I liked better the New York

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-34523240858438865132008-09-28T21:22:00.000-07:002008-09-28T21:35:06.964-07:00

Banned Books Week Sept. 27-Oct. 4, 2008Bill of RightsAmendment ICongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-19596711826113690452008-09-16T10:16:00.000-07:002008-09-16T10:21:42.467-07:00

Okay, one last post on Don Haskins. This is how many in El Paso, including my father, remember Haskins, which was seated on a barstool drinking a cold one. A bar owner Mr. Ontiveros had this to share about El Paso's most famous import:"In a bar that I owned in Downtown El Paso, Don Haskins once walked in to enjoy a cold beer. Sitting at the end of the bar were two Anglo men having a cold one as

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-19943066621953814432008-09-09T06:56:00.000-07:002008-09-09T11:03:50.827-07:00

Juanes really hit the nail on the head with his new single "Odio por amor" and if the Obama people are on top of it they'll incorporate it into their message. Take a listen here.Speaking of changeJust read Dagoberto Gilb's piece in Slate about Iowa cornfields. It reads like poetry and addresses the issue of change in the Americas.Don Haskins memoriesI, like everyone in El Paso, have Don Haskins

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-13836470607108290862008-09-04T10:12:00.000-07:002008-09-04T13:42:04.797-07:00

Taco shop that hit the spot for El Pasoans has closedBy Suzannah Gonzales | Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 02:28 PMThe taco shop formerly known as Chuco’s Tacos and more recently as 10th Street Tacos located in a yellow house on West 10th Street near North Lamar Boulevard has shut its doors for good, business co-owner David Sahagun confirmed today.Sahagun declined to say why, citing an ongoing

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-42851923654927034012008-08-21T16:02:00.000-07:002008-08-21T16:06:44.687-07:00

Sheryl Luna reviews "In Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race," (NYU Press 2007) by law professor Dr. Laura E. Gómez on Latina Lista.Sounds interesting: "The book is a close historical account of institutions, colonization and violence that was, in her view, propagated based on views of Mexican-Americans as an inferior race. She supports this argument with clear researched

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-57768948627076112082008-08-20T07:43:00.000-07:002008-08-20T07:45:27.398-07:00

This is what the book Hecho en Tejas has created. The writers and artists in the anthology have been working on this show for the past two years. Here you can see just a few of the highlights of the two-hour literary fest. The crowds Hecho brings in have been no less than 200 people. Imagine 200 Mexican Americans in a room digging the arts. It’s a beautiful thing. What is also beautiful is the

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-36875244729039311852008-08-20T06:56:00.000-07:002008-08-20T06:57:32.044-07:00

The public memorial for comedian Bernie Mac was held on August 16, 2008 at Salem Baptist Church's The House of Hope in Chicago. Fellow King of Comedy, Cedric the Entertainer, reflects on Mac

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-34614008935896223832008-08-11T22:45:00.000-07:002008-08-11T22:49:36.433-07:00

Some of my favorite Bernie Mac piecesHead of StateMy sister's kids

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-6472678330621076142008-08-10T11:51:00.000-07:002008-08-10T11:59:27.789-07:00

The 1800s in El Paso were filled with drugs, outlaws, and illegal smuggling. Some would have us thinking that the Sun City hasn't really changed much. I do like this EPCC website about the Chinese influence in downtown El Paso. "More than 1,200 Chinese laborers helped build the Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles to El Paso, completed in May 1881. When the job was done, about 300 Chinese

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-2832740565198413432008-08-09T23:05:00.000-07:002008-08-09T23:18:41.996-07:00

Here's my tribute to Chico's Tacos, actually it's a bunch of stolen tributes. Plus, I'm learning how to embed videos onto this blog. These are some of my favorite videos on YouTube.Montana LocationChico's TeeNot quite sober, need more tacosImpromptu dance at the Chico's Eastside location, girls not done clubbing

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-18659127915112388442008-08-08T14:32:00.001-07:002008-08-08T14:56:19.177-07:00

It is in the bending and the pain,the way old paint scrapes off old wood,the way elders light our way through timeon their way to a smaller frailty.A halo about the painted head of Jesuson the yellow wall of Our Lady of the ValleyChurch fades where teachers make a pittance,richly among brown-faced children.A burlap robe on a dark pilgrim walking up Mout Cristo Rey with sandals as sunsetblurs a

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-51521506602440811882008-08-07T08:31:00.000-07:002008-08-07T08:47:04.184-07:00

Air Pollution in El Paso, TexasThe Paso del Norte airshed is composed of a basin formed by mountainsthat surround El Paso, Texas, and Sunland Park, New Mexico, in theUnited States and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, in Mexico. With apopulation exceeding two million, it is one of the largestmetropolitan areas along the border. Visibility in the Paso del Norteairshed is frequently poor, especially in

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-12620156766800603942008-08-07T07:18:00.001-07:002008-08-07T07:54:39.127-07:00

Tucson native Charles Bowden took a little trip to the border and wrote about it for GQ and in it he mentions what people in El Paso have long suspected about the killings across the bridge that El Chapo is the one who brought in the Mexican Army and they work for HIM. “I think the government is causing more insecurity—because the army does nothing,” he says. “There is a shoot-out, and the army

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-86456678795464495782008-08-06T06:55:00.000-07:002008-08-06T06:59:42.547-07:00

El PasoLiving togetherJun 26th 2008 | EL PASOFrom The Economist print editionThe climate is fantastic, and cross-border business is thriving. But the cartels are a big problemIT WAS a quiet Friday night in El Paso for Sandra, a young student. Her friends had gone across the border to Ciudad Juárez for a film festival. She had been looking forward to it, but at the last minute felt “una semilla”,

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-70372346299100644442008-08-05T16:25:00.000-07:002008-08-05T16:30:42.334-07:00

Sheryl Luna finds Geraldo Rivera's "Hispanic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S." a "quick read, yet intelligent and interesting. It is a needed counter-view to much of what is presented to the public at this time." Read it now on Latina Lista.

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-48580562322932715592008-08-04T14:15:00.000-07:002008-08-04T14:19:30.144-07:00

A longer version of this review appeared in the American Book Review. For the full review please purchase a copy of the journal.Mexican Writers on WritingEdited by Margaret Sayers PedenTrinity University Presswww.trinity.edu/tupress210 pages; paper, $24.95 A Borderland PrimerBy Christine Granados Reading Margaret Sayers Peden’s book “Mexican Writers on Writing” was an uncomfortable reminder of

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-74408184215695989372008-08-04T14:03:00.000-07:002008-08-04T14:09:42.402-07:00

This essay appeared in the 2008 issue of Pembroke Magazine. No. 40 edited by Dr. Liliana Wendorff, chair of the Foreign Languages Department at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.CHRISTINE GRANADOS As a child, I helped my mother smuggle parrots into El Paso, Texas, from Juárez, Mexico. My mother’s smuggling wasn’t premeditated, and she didn’t do it for profit. She bypassed Customs or "

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-7982771795836240802008-08-04T13:36:00.000-07:002008-08-05T11:49:20.274-07:00

I've been in El Paso for an entire month, visiting mom and dad with the chavalos. Haven't posted in while so I'll post all the things I've published since May. Here they are from latest to earliest. Liked the book despite the hideous cover.A CelebrationBy CHRISTINE GRANADOSSpecial ContributorDallas Morning News The re-release of Tomas Rivera's work could not come at a better time. With the

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-25493678690679941472008-06-25T21:55:00.000-07:002008-06-25T22:39:56.933-07:00

I, we, loved George Carlin at our house in El Paso in the 70s and not just because he smoked pot and did LSD but because we grew up with him on cable television. The seven words you can't say on television was our mantra: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Always, always made us laugh even sitting outside in the fucking heat of an afternoon day.I thoroughly enjoyed this,

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-36403850330381521372008-05-31T14:25:00.000-07:002008-05-31T14:30:43.942-07:00

Finally a voice of reason in this El Paso downtown development debate and I can’t believe who it’s coming from—Joe Olvera. For possibly the first time I agree wholeheartedly with what he had to say in Newspaper Tree. An excerpt:“Well and good. Let’s preserve what should be preserved. For example, let’s preserve the housing units for which Carmen Felix and other activists fought such horrendous

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-21710239848415747872008-05-08T06:26:00.000-07:002008-05-08T16:06:22.816-07:00

Rudy Gutierrez
/EL PASO TIMES, Rodolfo Gonzalez/AMERICAN-STATESMANWhether you get your taco fix at Chico's or Chuco's depends on whether you are in Austin or 570 miles to the west. Chico's is a chain in El Paso. It is suing Chuco's, on 10th Street in Austin, for trademark infringement. Chuco's is hoping a name change will calm the waters over its 'drowning tacos.'I gotta try this place out

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-20778089165744494792008-04-30T16:38:00.001-07:002008-04-30T16:52:42.971-07:00

There is no theme, nothing really that holds these pieces together or no way I can group them, except to say that all these links deal with writing and I've enjoyed them all, along with Sheryl Luna's blog videos, he, he, he.Another good review from Roberto Ontiveros.Check out the Hecho en Tejas video about Dallas. Good interview with Dorothy Allison.

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-28372177704480285472008-04-22T20:12:00.000-07:002008-04-22T21:11:03.143-07:00

Here's why El Paso is so cool. It's not "Los Americanos que piensan en todo but los mexicanos." This photo and story ran in the El Paso Times today. Cart below bridge moved migrantsBy Louie Gilot / El Paso TimesArticle Launched: 04/22/2008 12:00:00 AM MDTA 5-by-5-foot trolley resembling those used by mechanics to slide under cars was put to a very different use over the weekend.Border Patrol

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-52587173622313899052008-04-11T07:47:00.000-07:002008-04-11T08:04:53.444-07:00

Getting ready for Hecho en Tejas in Dallas, 7:30 p.m., May 3 at the Cultural Arts Center with a fantastic lineup. Come out if you’re in the Dallas area. Thinking about my friends who I'll be seeing again in North Texas reminded me of Hecho, en El Paso and how when I was there I had the opportunity to meet the editor of the New York Times book review and was, well, disappointed to say the least.

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-33298598415203679892008-04-02T23:53:00.000-07:002008-04-03T00:16:23.027-07:00

Lorna Dee Cervantes’ DRIVE (Wings Press 2006) is a collection of five poetry collections bound together. The Collections are titled “How Far’s the War?” “Bird Ave,” “Play,” “Letters to David” and “Hard Drive.”On my initial reading of the book, the section titled “Letters to David” was most appealing in its imaginative scope and its homage to David A. Kennedy. Many of the poems in the book are

Sherylnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-50763856147656384452008-03-19T21:35:00.000-07:002008-03-20T06:26:32.696-07:00

I’m in love again, and this time it’s with a woman. Forgive my crudeness but I wanna mind fuck Zadie Smith. Get inside her head to see how she does those wonderful things with plot, description, dialogue, and even simple tags in her book “On Beauty.”Love. There is no other word for it. It’s what literature does to/for me when I get a book that engages all my senses. It doesn’t matter who wrote it

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-19264861255282879722008-03-08T15:39:00.000-08:002008-03-11T01:32:21.517-07:00

Javier Huerta’s SOME CLARIFICATIONS Y OTROS POEMAS (Arte Publico 2007) is a book that is bilingual and brilliant. The poems run the gamut between English poems about the difficulty of dealing with poverty and Spanish poems about undocumented immigrants, amnesty, art, frustration and hope. “Fences: A Scene: Dramatis Personae” opens with a prologue where the dialogue swings back and forth from

Sherylnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-62974028710655074892008-03-03T19:40:00.000-08:002008-03-03T20:44:49.320-08:00

Here in Central Texas I’ve been busy helping with a book festival. The big draw this year was a former Texas Ranger who wrote a memoir. He was a caricature of the infamous Texas lawman (A 6-foot-5, thin, cowboy hat wearing, boot clad man who spit out ain’ts like chewing tobacco) and the crowd ate it up. However, the most interesting writers in attendance, in my humble opinion, were Tony Diaz and

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-61081238354681520202008-02-13T20:50:00.000-08:002008-02-15T06:42:36.440-08:00

Erasmo Guerra's interview of El Paso’s most famous literati, John Rechy. He also reviews Rechy’s new novel About My Life and the Kept Woman. I loved his book Sexual Outlaw and still have to read City of Night. What kind of El Pasoan hasn’t read that one? Shame on me, shame, shame.In other El Paso news, Daniel Olivas reviewed The Flowers by another El Pasoan Dagoberto Gilb in the El Paso Times

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-81361066163831287712008-02-07T22:43:00.000-08:002008-02-09T10:56:17.491-08:00

There’s this journalism ethics code that I’m bound by and it states that it’s a conflict of interest to review a book by someone you know. Everyone knows that it’s near impossible not to know of someone in the writing community and in the Mexican American writing community it’s peor. I mean, everybody knows everybody, we’re one big ol’ dysfunctional family.I told one publication that wanted me to

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-36170718768393752652008-02-01T08:30:00.000-08:002008-02-01T22:15:53.644-08:00

I read at the KGB in NYC with Erika Wurth the other night, so I have to tell you how it was. It was really good. We met a Native documentary film maker from the Southwest who currently lives in NYC. I enjoyed the aura of the bar. I was surprised people were so very attentive to our poetry! Since it was a bar I thought they would be drunk. Instead they were attentive and respectful. At least 20-25

Sherylnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-61385329710358859882008-01-22T21:27:00.000-08:002008-01-22T21:56:57.060-08:00

I was looking at the shelves in my bedroom trying to figure what book to blog about and what jumped out at me was not all the good books I’ve read but all the books I haven’t. The books I, with the best of intentions, started to read and got a chapter or a few pages into and then for some unknown reason stopped. What it is that compels a person to read an entire book? I know when a book gets me,

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-39999001269830693752008-01-18T06:59:00.000-08:002008-01-18T09:02:00.055-08:00

I have been reading Langston Hughes' THE WEARY BLUES (Knopf 1939). At first, on the page, the poems seem simple, and yet when read aloud the rhythmical blues can be heard, the beat like a slow swaying dance. Weariness is the opposite of energy. He was raised in Harlem with 8 siblings and a father who struggled to feed them. He lived when lynching was popular in this country. Like so many poems,

Sherylnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-4949721330533219322008-01-13T13:03:00.000-08:002008-01-13T13:57:15.571-08:00

I’m posting again because Ms. Luna is traveling from El Paso to Boulder to settle in for the school year. She’s a professor at University of Colorado. After she gets settled she’s headed to New York City for the AWP conference and some readings. If you’re in the Big Apple at the end of January you oughta check her out: 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 26 at the KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street New York, NY (

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-37541600431984512612008-01-09T13:03:00.000-08:002008-01-09T15:51:25.934-08:00

While we’re on the topic of Rigoberto, I must say that his review of my book in the El Paso Times turned me on to a writer from El Paso I’d never heard about—Estella Portillo Trambley. I had no idea Portillo Trambley even existed and I’m FROM El Paso. I can’t believe my high school English teachers didn’t assign her book “Rain of Scorpions” in class. I even made it through UTEP without knowing

Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960660575661512278noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-66545973285305039582008-01-05T18:27:00.001-08:002008-01-05T19:01:46.542-08:00

Rigoberto Gonzalez’s Other Fugitives and other Strangers (Tupelo Press 2006) is the type of poetry book some of us may be uncomfortable reading in that it challenges our comfortable distance from homoerotic love, which like all relationships, deals with issues of darkness, dominance and survival. The very things that were once hidden come to light with poems that take from the image of the body,

Sherylnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5830302453083733173.post-40611869876197142662007-12-31T08:58:00.000-08:002008-01-06T17:29:42.025-08:00

Technically we're not from El Paso anymore but we were born and raised in the Sun City, where dust storms are as commonplace as Wal-Mart. It's that El Paso has a way of staying with you, like a visit to the beach, weeks later I'll put my hands inside the pocket of a jacket and feel the grit I unknowingly brought home with me. Depending on my mood I'm either annoyed or content with my memories of

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