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Christmas Special

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Host Daniel Chacon invites friends and family into the Poets’ Cove on this special holiday episode of Words on a Wire. Special guests include the current Texas Poet Laureate, ire’ne lara silva, and El Paso artist Moses Ayoub.

Daniel asks each of his special guests, “What gift would you give to someone without limits?

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To download the podcast version visit wordsonawire.org

Originally aired on December 24, 2023

Daniel Chacón’s collection of stories, Unending Rooms, was the 2007 winner of the Hudson Prize. He has also been awarded the American Book Award, the Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, and the Southwest Book Award. His first collection of stories, Chicano Chicanery was a finalist in the Patterson Fiction Prize and his novel and the shadows took him is available from Simon and Schuster. His new book is a collection of stories called Hotel Júarez: Stories, Rooms and Loops. He’s a professor of Fiction Writing, Kafka, and Latino/a literature in the Creative Writing Department at UTEP.
Will Rose is a longtime technology and marketing executive based out of NYC and Texas. He is the co-founder of Words on a Wire’s publishing imprint, eRadical Books, and now spearheads marketing strategy for the Words on a Wire podcast. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer at the EdTech startup, Student Select, and as Head of Data Science at the artificial intelligence company, Harqen AI.