Benjamín Sáenz featured on PBS Art Beat

Benjamín A. Sáenz on PBSBenjamin Sáenz has been recognized as one of the most influential voices in the United States, because of his admirable group of novels, short stories, and poems that he continues writing, as well as for his moving and original children books. His appearance as a featured artist on PBS Art Beat is a proof of his importance in literature.

Undocumentaries

Cover of UndocumentariesIn words of Anne Waldman —today, one of the most celebrated American poet and activist—, “Rosa Alcalá’s imagination and language disarmingly penetrate and extend these powerful devices and activating signals. The face we see is hers and our culture’s own.” Without doubt, the power of the lastest book by Alcalá, Undocumentaries, confirmed her opinion.

Summa caligramática

José de Piérola and his book Summa caligramáticaA fines de 2009, José de Piérola entregó su última novela, publicada por la Editorial Norma en el Perú. El título: Summa Caligramática. Pocas veces, en la literatura hispanoamericana, se ha hecho un retrato tan intenso —en ocasiones compasivo, a ratos inclemente— de la psicología torturada de un artista y de los estragos que el exceso de poder, incluso en nombre del amor, causa en los seres humanos.

Insides She Swallowed

Insides she swallowedIn September 2009, West End Press published this first book of poetry by Sasha Pimentel Chacón. Delicate and passionate, the verses have both mind and body, myth and reality, culture and nature, to gather together —in Levi-Strauss’s words— the raw and the cooked of our experiences in order to, perhaps, deepen the knowledge of our own lives.

Rio Grande Review Quicksilver Bilingual Creative Writing Student Organization

Latest News

  • The Department of Creative Writing will be present at the 1st International Creative Writing Congress to take place in Lima, Perú. Professors Rosa Alcalá, and José de Piérola will attend.
  • José de Pieróla presented his book Un beso del infierno on July 24th at the 15th Lima International Book Fair in Lima, Perú.
  • The Rio Grande Review has new editors: José Ángel Valenzuela Palma, Daniel Ríos Lopera, and Daniel Centeno.
  • Quicksilver is a literary magazine published by students in the University of Texas at El Paso's online MFA program.
  • Rio Grande Review is open to submissions for Fall 2010. Deadline is September 10. Visit their submission guidelines web page
  • On April 23rd Mouthfeel Press had a release party for the poetry book Llamar al agua por su nombre by MFA student Laura Cesarco Eglin. The Percolator got full of poetry and music with Ms. Cesarco, MFA student Roberto Santos, and Ricardo Valencia.