Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, edited by Robert L. Giron (Gival Press, 2009)

New from Gival Press, Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, edited by Robert L. Giron, which includes "Man High," a poem by Yours Truly, as well as work by more than 150 other poets in English, French and Spanish, among them, Karren LaLonde Alenier, Grace Cavalieri, Alfred Corn, Rita Dove, Colette Inez, Claire Joysmith, Alexandra Van de Kamp, E. Ethelbert Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Kim Roberts. Writes editor Giron:

The voices are passionate and enlightening while echoing a desire in their own way to transform, to change, to transcend borders, be they personal, cultural or national, in a poetic manner as if to say that within literature there isn't a border for the human spirit, for it is that energy that keeps us going.

More anon.

The Amazon.com Carousel Widget, That Embeddable Chunk o' Code

Madam Mayo has discovered widgets. You might have noticed the Pug-A-Day widget over on my sidebar. New on the sidebar is the amazon.com widget featuring my books as well as a few anthologies (by Lee Gutkind, Monica De la Torre and Michael Wiegers, Dinty W. Moore, Richard Peabody, Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal, and Robert L. Giron) that include my stories, essays, poems, and / or translations. Scroll all the way to the bottom of this blog and you'll find the widget for pug books. I was amazed at how easy it was to do these.

Spanish Event July 13th in Washington DC's Folger Shakespeare Library

Thanks to Chez Robert Giron, some neat news. For more about Washington DC's vibrant Spanish language literary scene, click here.

Chez Robert Giron

has just posted a very generous review of Tameme's first chapbook, Mexican writer Agustin Cadena's short story, "Carne verde, piel negra," translated by Yours Truly as "An Avocado From Michoacan." I was so delighted by Giron's mention of our wonderful cover designer, Ines Hilde. The cover painting is by the very talented Edgar Soberon. Robert Giron, a literary translator and also a publisher of poetry, fiction and translation with his Gival Press, has long been a friend to Tameme. He recently published another one of Agustin Cadena's short stories in his on-line journal, ArLiJo. More anon.