Emmy

• Industry: Education
• Occupation: profesora
• Location: borderlands : Tejas : United States

About Me

SOLSTICE (poems). Originally from Cali. After some time in NYC and Navajo country moved to la frontera by choice, by love, by the words of antepasados (literal and literary). Former New York Foundation for the Arts and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown poetry fellow. MFA Columbia.

Interests

• poetry
• lyric prose
• save segundo barrio
• no border wall

Favorite Movies

• La Strada
• Sin Nombre
• Midnight Cowboy
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Saturday Night Fever
• Ruby in Paradise
• Boyz n the Hood
• Trois couleurs: Bleu
• Trainspotting
• Memento
• Oldboy
• Waltz with Bashir
• El Laberinto del fauno
• Night of the Hunter
• and more...

Favorite Music

• A Love Supreme (John Coltrane)
• Robert Johnson
• Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Lauryn Hill
• Lila Downs
• George Harrison
• Maná
• radiohead
• My Morning Jacket and more.

Favorite Books

• Dictee (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha)
• Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
• As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
• Borderlands/La Frontera & other works (Gloria Anzaldúa)
• The Business of Fancydancing (Sherman Alexie)
• The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (Joy Harjo)
• Alphabet (Inger Christensen)
• My Life (Lyn Hejinian)
• Letters to a Stranger (Thomas James)
• Emplumada (Lorna Dee Cervantes)
• Too Bright to See (Linda Gregg)
• Don't Let Me Be Lonely (Claudia Rankine)
• Pity the Drowned Horses (Sheryl Luna)
• Other Fugitives and Other Strangers (Rigoberto González)
• Averno (Louise Gluck)
• Hard Labor (Cesare Pavese)
• Paul Celan (collected)
• Maria Sabina
• Cecilia Vicuña
• sexoPUROsexoVeloz and SEPTIEMBRE (Dolores Dorantes)
• Jack Spicer (collected) and many
• many more writers and texts...

My Blogs	Team Members
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California Poet	Sheryl Eduardo C. Corral Robert Vasquez Francisco Aragón