Words on a Wire

Interview with Tony Diaz. Poetic license By Benjamin Alire Saenz.


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* Daniel & Ben talk with writer Tony Diaz, novelist and leader of the Librotraficante movement, which is on a mission to smuggle banned books back into Tucson, Arizona, after the city’s school board removed a number of books from the district’s classrooms, including many books on Latino studies. The Librotraficante caravan is traveling from Houston to Tucson, and will make a stop in El Paso on March 14 at 7 p.m., at the Mercado Mayapan, 2101 Myrtle.
* Benjamin Saenz offers this week’s Poetic License, with a moving reflection on the life of his late mother.
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