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Host Daniel Chacón talks to Aldo Amparán, author of the poetry collection Brothers Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), winner of the Alice James Award. They will discuss everything from the writing process to imposter syndrome. Aldo also will read a poem from Brothers Sleep, “Thanatophobia, or Sleep Addresses His Brother.”
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In this episode, Daniel hangs out with Jessa Crispin, author of The Creative Tarot and Why I Am Not A Feminist.
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Host Daniel Chacón talks to author John Symons about AI systems and the future of writing.
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This Sunday's show will be honoring the 75th anniversary of the plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, the tragic 1948 incident that took the lives of 32 passengers, 28 of which were Mexican bracero workers, who were buried anonymously in a mass unmarked grave in Fresno, California. This is the subject that our host Tim Z. Hernandez has spent the last 13 years of his life researching. We invite you to join us!
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Host Daniel Chacón talks with author Marcia Hatfield Daudistel about her new book Across the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend (Texas A&M University Press, 2022).
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M. L. Williams is author of the chapbook Other Medicines and co-editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets, and he served as editor or co-editor of Quarterly West for five years.
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Bonnie Ilza Cisneros is a fourth-generation educator in a line of Tejana school teachers.
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Host Daniel Chacón speaks with writer Heath Dollar about his book Old Country Fiddle.
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The Day of the Dead or Día de Muertos is a tradition to honor the dead and the topic of this conversation with Denise Chavez.
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In this episode of Words on a Wire we're here to bring you a very special show, a tribute to American poet and writer Benjamin Alire Saenz.
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John Boomer is a self-taught sculptor who started his career in 1968 while teaching on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
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Host Daniel Chacón talks with author Daniel A. Olivas, the author of eleven books and editor of two anthologies.