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Interview with Marcia Hatfield Daudistel. Sunday, February 19th, 2012.

21: Daniel talks with Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, editor of “Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso” and “Literary El Paso.” Daudistel talks about the struggles in convincing an out-of-town publisher that El Paso had a plethora of writers to contribute to its “Literary” series. She also talks about “Grace and Gumption” and the upcoming publication of “Authentic Texas: The People of the Big Bend.”

Daudistel also reads this week’s Poem of the Week: Pat Mora’s “Desert Women.”

And in this week’s Poetic License, UTEP Creative Writing professor Jose de Pierola reflects on “The Dream of the Perfect Language.”

Holiday edition with UTEP Creative Writing Faculty. Sunday, December 25th, 2011.

13: It’s a special Holiday Edition of “Words on a Wire.” The faculty from the University of Texas at El Paso Creative Writing Department has gathered in the studio to share their holiday reflections.

Jeff Sirkin talks about his first experience with Christmas as a Jew.

Rosa Alcalá talks about why she is reconsidering her holiday traditions now that she has a daughter.

José de Piérola reads “Noche Buena,” which tells of how he celebrated Noche Buena in Perú and how his beliefs evolved over the years.

Sasha Pimentel Chacón shares her memories of trying to fly to Buenos Aires from Paris on Christmas Eve.

In “Santa’s Big Helper,” Lex Williford shares his memories of being a young boy at Christmastime after the death of his baby brother, and how it relates to his experience as an older father to young children.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Benjamín Alire Saenz shares his early memories of Christmas and why the holiday means more to him later in life.

AND, In “Mr. Microphone,” Daniel Chacón shares a mall-shopping Christmas memory and why it had an impact on him and how he celebrates the holiday.

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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.

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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.