Words on a Wire

Host Will Rose talks with fiction writer and essayist Dagoberto Gilb about his two new books, New Testament: Stories (City Lights, 2024) and A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands (University of New Mexico Press, 2024).

In this episode of Technically, Literate, host Leah O'Daniel speaks with accomplished poet and UTEP professor Andrea Cote Botero.

On this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón talks with author Lucrecia Guerrero about her new book, On the Mad River (Mouthfeel Press, 2024).

Lucrecia Guerrero grew up in Nogales, Arizona in a bilingual and bicultural home--her mother is from Kentucky, her father from Mexico. Both parents held a fierce pride in their perspective cultures and shared stories with their children. Guerrero is proud to say that she was raised on biscuits and gravy with a jalapeno on the side. Her stories inevitably involve cultural clashes between experience and tradition; and explore themes such as the abuse of power, both political and personal, and the strength and beauty of the human spirit.

Guerrero has lived in the Midwest for years where she teaches creative writing.

Host Daniel Chacón travels to Las Cruces, New Mexico to sit with legendary Chicanx writer Denise Chávez. They discuss her career, her Las Cruces bookstore, and her new book, Street of Too Many Stories (Conocimientos Press, 2024).

Host Will Rose talks with Bloomberg opinion columnist Parmy Olson about the arms race to build the next generation of artificial intelligence -- and her new book, Supremecy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World.

On this episode of Words on a Wire, Host Tim Z. Hernande speaks with Cassie Holguin-Pettinato, a Chicana poet, collage artist, and theremin musician from the El Paso/Juárez frontera. A fourth-generation resident of La Calavera, the last historic neighborhood of Smeltertown, she channels her rich cultural background into her work. Cassie is the author of The Lamb’s Tail (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and The Five Stages of Stuttering (Flowersong Press, 2024). She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. In 2024, she was honored with the Poet and Author Fellowship at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Currently, she serves as an academic writing tutor at El Paso Community College.

[Listener note: This episode's conversation is conducted in Spanish] Ricardo Pohlenz es un escritor iconoclasta, ha atravesado la poesía concreta, la crítica cinematográfica y la literatura como acto de irreverencia. En este episodio iniciamos una nueva temporada de Patos Salvajes con esta entrevista sorprendente que tuvimos en persona en la Ciudad de México. Patos Salvajes es el espacio radiofónico de los estudiantes del M.F.A. en Escritura Creativa Bilingüe en la Universidad de Texas en El Paso.

[Description translation] Ricardo Pohlenz is an iconoclastic writer, he has traversed concrete poetry, film criticism and literature in general as an act of irreverence. In this episode we start a new season of Patos Salvajes with this astonishing interview we had in person in Mexico City. Patos Salvajes is the radio program of the students of the M.F.A. in Bilingual Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Host Daniel Chacon speaks with author, playwright, and theater director Octavio Solis.

Host Tim Z. Hernandez speaks with author and historian David Dorado Romo about "the true story of America, from the Mexican American perspective."

Host Daniel Chacón speaks with author and attorney Daniel A. Olivas about his latest novel, Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press, 2024).