Words on a Wire

Daniel and Will invite poet, publisher, and musician Carlos Fidel Espinoza into the Cove. They discuss a wide range of topics, including the El Paso migrant crisis, the reality of making a living as a writer, starting a publication company, and Carlos’s unique job as a city storyteller.

Carlos Fidel Espinoza lives and writes along the US/Mexico border. You can read his work in Spry Literary Magazine, Border Senses, Pilgrimage, The Rift, and Chrysalis. While earning his bilingual MFA at the University of Texas at El Paso, he contributed to the editing of Andres Montoya’s posthumous collection of poetry, A Jury of Trees. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Barrio Panther Literatura Magazine.

In this episode of the 3rd Story, listen to the conversation between host Tim Z. Hernandez and leyend Steve Caballero

In this episode of the Poet’s Cove, Daniel hangs out with poet Ire’ne Lara Silva. They have a conversation about issues that concern an active writer, mindfulness, survival, travel, retirement dreams, and the problem with doctors —a conversation sprinkled with just about anything, but always coming back to poetry. Lara Silva is one of the most active and prolific writers of our time, and she does it all while holding down a full-time job. They talk about how she is able to manage this.

Daniel and Will invite University of Kansas philosopher John Symons into the Cove to talk about ChatGPT. Both Daniel and John are university professors, and they discuss how this new technology will affect how they teach, how their students learn, and the future of Liberal Arts education. They also touch on simulation theory and other subjects.

In this episode, host, Tim Z. Hernandez,  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!

Rodriguez Jr. is an ethnic studies teacher in Santa Ana, California,

where he lives with his wife and two children. He is the descendant of

Maria Santana Rodriguez, one of the passengers killed in the famous

1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon. 

Today, host Daniel Chacón talks with author Marcia Daudistel about her new book Across the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend (Texas A&M University Press, 2022).

 Daudistel is also the co-author with writer Mimi Gladstein of the book The Women of Smeltertown by TCU Press. Marcia is the co-author with writer and photographer Bill Wright, of Authentic Texas: People of the Big Bend, published by the University of Texas Press and winner of the 2014 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association. She is the editor of Grace and Gumption: the Women of El Paso, winner of a 2013 San Antonio Conservation Society publication award, and Literary El Paso, winner of the 2010 Southwest Book Award of the Border Regional Library Association, both published by TCU Press. 

In this episode of the '3rd Story,' host Tim Z. Hernandez  breaks down Gen Z facts with special guests Rumi Sevilla-Hernandez and Randy Barraza.
 Sevilla-Hernandez is a fourth generation Latinx student raised in California, Colorado and El Paso. She is currently an undergraduate majoring in multimedia journalism at the University 

of Texas El Paso.  Barraza is a first generation Latinx student raised in  New Mexico, Arizona, and El Paso. He is currently an undergraduate majoring in political science at the University of Texas El Paso. 

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. His work is in many journals and anthologies, including Plume, Hubbub, Salt, Western Humanities Review, Miramar, The Journal of Florida Studies, The Cortland Review, Live Encounters Poetry, and Stone, River, Sky, and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. He co-emcees the Poetry Stage at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and he teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Valdosta State University.

Bonnie Ilza Cisneros is a fourth-generation educator in a line of Tejana school teachers. She holds an MFA from Texas State University, is a member of Macondo Writers Workshop, and was awarded a NALAC artist grant in 2018. She received an 2023 Individual Artist Grant from the City of San Antonio to archive, exhibit, and celebrate Siempre Verde: Música for Feeling & Healing, an interdisciplinary pandemic project at Evergreen Garden.