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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

  • Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon, poetry, in Fall 2007
  • Do Not Mind the Bombs, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009
  • The Ninth Dream: War (in the City in Which I Live), poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2009-2010
  • By Hand, a feature, in Fall 2010
  • He Has Gone to Be with the Women, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2010–2011
  • From “Last Summer in the Garden” , poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
  • By Hand, a feature, in Spring 2011
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Benjamin Alire Sáenz received the American Book Award in 1992 for his first book of poems, Calendar of Dust. A former Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford, he also received a Lannan Poetry Fellowship, a Southwest Book Award, the Paterson Prize, and the Americas Book Award and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. His most recent poetry collection is The Book of What Remains (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). Sáenz is the chair of the creative writing department at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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