Soy fronterizo. A child of the borderlands. Home is Donna, Texas, right across the river from Río Bravo, a bustling town in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The grandparents of my abuelo Manuel Garza came to Texas from that state i[Read More]

Luis Urrea reads his essay “Life is an Act of Literary Creation” on NPR’s series This I Believe. God, he says, is a poet. “…every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.” Listen to[Read More]

JIM TOLBERT is one of El Paso’s not-so-secret weapons. An eco and neighborhood activist, Jim understands the interdependence of ecology and culture. Indeed, the interdependence between us all. With that in mind, he wrote a thoughtful commentary on[Read More]