NewBorder Poetry Editor John O. Espinoza in The Paris Review
“‘L’Argent’ opens with the married, thirty-something speaker addressing himself as ‘you’ while withdrawing money from an ATM, the money a monthly ‘gift’ from his mother. We witness the solitary act...
View ArticleClaire Skinner’s “Jaguar”
Claire Skinner is a graduate of the University of Virginia. Ms. Skinner is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan. After living in California’s Eastern Sierra, southeastern Arizona,...
View ArticleNewBorder Interview with Carmen Tafolla
I first met Carmen Tafolla in the fall of 2009, when I organized her reading at South Texas College in McAllen. I’d enjoyed her story collection The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans and felt my...
View ArticleNewBorder Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a poet, novelist, artist and writer of children’s books. He has studied at the University of Louvain, the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Iowa, and Stanford...
View ArticleNewBorder Interview with Katie Farris & Ilya Kaminsky
NewBorder Senior Editor Joseph Daniel Haske recently sat down with Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky to discuss poetry and translations. Here is what the mosca en la pared heard. Haske: You are known for...
View ArticleNewBorder interview with Rigoberto González
Rigoberto González is the author of ten books of poetry and prose, and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships,...
View ArticleJoseph Rios’“La inmensidad”
Joseph Rios was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley. He studied literature at UC Berkeley. In 2011, he co-founded Quinto Sol Remembered to recover the history of the first Chicana/o press...
View ArticleJavier Zamora’s “Immigrating is Loving Two Women”
Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, La Paz, El Salvador. At the age of nine he immigrated to the Yunaited Estais. His chapbook, Nine Immigrant Years, is the winner of the 2011 Organic Weapon Arts...
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