Words on a wire: Interview with Eugene Gloria. Sunday, September 9th, 2012.

Interview with Eugene Gloria. Sunday, September 9th, 2012.

43: Eugene Gloria talks about his latest book “My Favorite Warlord.” A visit to Kyoto re-incarnated a different book idea into his latest collection. The show also discusses the new millennium shifts in the publishing industry.

http://www.eugenegloria.com/

Benjamin Alire Sáenz shares his memories of Ciudad Ciudad Juárez in today’s Poetic License.

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Words on a wire.

Words on a Wire is a radio show about fiction, poetry, the writing community, and whatever other issues concern literary writers and readers of books. Hosted by Benjamin Alire Sáenz and Daniel Chacón.

Originally broadcasted on www.ktep.org

Write to us: soychacon@gmail.com

El Paso, Texas.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz received the American Book Award in 1992 for his first book of poems, Calendar of Dust. A former Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford, he also received a Lannan Poetry Fellowship, a Southwest Book Award, the Paterson Prize, and the Americas Book Award and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He is the author of over 10 books, both fiction and poetry. His most recent poetry collection is The Book of What Remains (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). His new YA novel, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is coming out in 2011 from Simon and Schuster. He is the chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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. He has just completed a new collection of stories called Hotel Júarez. He’s a professor of Fiction Writing, Kafka, and Latino/a literature in the Creative Writing Department at UTEP.