seems to be the attitude I will have to take each day. Will I go through the seven stages of (job) loss? I am about to turn the corner on anger, but I don't know what comes next.
I'm trying to keep busy and feed my creative side. At the moment I am helping a friend produce some chapbooks, meaning I'm making the copies and putting them together. Before that though I had created the layout and helped w/ revision. I love creating chapbooks. Seriously. Those sometimes cheap looking booklets have a lot of charisma in comparison to many books I have come across.
This is the cover:
The chapbook is called Vidas Cruzadas, translating to "crossed lives". It is a collection of poems created by women in a halfway house located in the Rio Grande Valley. Most of the women spoke Spanish and likewise, there is Spanish in the chapbook. Unfortunately I wasn't able to participate in the poetry workshops, but I was happy to help produce the chapbook.
I would have liked to create a chapbook for my upcoming panel in the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies(NACCS)Tejas Regional Conference, but I don't think I have the time. I have to teach on Wednesday, plan on Thursday, and the conference is Friday morning. In addition I am working full-time, so that means "no time".
must keep busy.
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Reynosa II
In my grandfather’s house
mamá was in the kitchen
dad in abuelo's room.
They talked
como coyotes enojados
and all i could catch
from his berrinche was
"no, es que"
y estos días digo
después de odiarlo
no, es que
los ricos no entienden
no, es que
no nos dejan
no, es que
nos mienten
no, es que
siempre seremos pobres
no, es que
ella está enojada
no, es que
no es lo mismo
no, es que
en los estados unidos es diferente
no, es que
ya no es mi hijo
no, es que
somos hechos de vicios
no, es que
no se que decir
I'm trying to keep busy and feed my creative side. At the moment I am helping a friend produce some chapbooks, meaning I'm making the copies and putting them together. Before that though I had created the layout and helped w/ revision. I love creating chapbooks. Seriously. Those sometimes cheap looking booklets have a lot of charisma in comparison to many books I have come across.
This is the cover:
The chapbook is called Vidas Cruzadas, translating to "crossed lives". It is a collection of poems created by women in a halfway house located in the Rio Grande Valley. Most of the women spoke Spanish and likewise, there is Spanish in the chapbook. Unfortunately I wasn't able to participate in the poetry workshops, but I was happy to help produce the chapbook.
I would have liked to create a chapbook for my upcoming panel in the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies(NACCS)Tejas Regional Conference, but I don't think I have the time. I have to teach on Wednesday, plan on Thursday, and the conference is Friday morning. In addition I am working full-time, so that means "no time".
must keep busy.
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Reynosa II
In my grandfather’s house
mamá was in the kitchen
dad in abuelo's room.
They talked
como coyotes enojados
and all i could catch
from his berrinche was
"no, es que"
y estos días digo
después de odiarlo
no, es que
los ricos no entienden
no, es que
no nos dejan
no, es que
nos mienten
no, es que
siempre seremos pobres
no, es que
ella está enojada
no, es que
no es lo mismo
no, es que
en los estados unidos es diferente
no, es que
ya no es mi hijo
no, es que
somos hechos de vicios
no, es que
no se que decir
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