Boundless 2013: The Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival

by Daniel García Ordaz, Ileana Garcia-Spitz, Katherine Hoerth (Editor)

Art That Heals, Inc., presents Boundless 2013, the official anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (www.vipf.org). Boundless is an eclectic collection of poetry from around the U.S. and including contributions by poets from the U.K., Guatemala, Mexico, and El Salvador. Poems included in this collection Life’s Richard Peake, Flying Into The Joanne Uppendahl, Grace In The Nina Renée Avila, Taking Pictures of People Taking Pictures of Fields of Shirley Rickett, Claiming Richard Peake, In Modern Brenda Nettles Riojas, Mamá En La Diana T. Córdova, Shoes In The Diana Dominguez, The Leftovers of Lupe Méndez, 20 Cigarettes César De León, A Saturday Diana Dominguez, Kyle Sherman, Advice to Any Man, When a Mexicana Walks Lupe Méndez, Trevor Wainwright, Alas de José Hernández Díaz, Blowing Rie Sheridan Rose, Casablanca Vanessa Brown, Cave of Chip Dameron, Colour Nikki Bennett, Julieta Corpus, Contest Texas Wine Richard Peake, Clarrissia Nerio, Dare to James Griswold, Eres Mi Flor, Eres Mi Edward Vidaurre, Estate Beto Conde, Extracto de Claudia D. Hernández, Finding the New Shirley Rickett, Mona D. Sizer, Bryan Nichols, Saraí García, Christopher Carmona, In The Silence of the Yolanda López, Cameron Laura Reagan-Porras, La Arturo Saldaña, Les rats de Shirley Rickett, Mercado Mona Sizer, My Name is Lai Brenda Nettles Riojas, My Past and Arturo Saldaña, Night César De León, No One Fights For Linda Romero, Panadería Revolución (Soy Jardines Flotantes): José Hernández Díaz, Christopher Carmona, Sapir-Whorf JoAnn DeLuna, Scarred Alan Oak, Chip Dameron, Rachel Udow, She’s Edward Vidaurre, Dolores Shafer, Snake Charmer Reveals the Contents of His Kristin Cerda, !Soy Mamazon!: Daniel García Ordaz, So,: Saraí García, Squawking Chip Dameron, Succumbing to Kathy Trenfield Raines, Surrendering In Joanne Uppendahl, Terms and Oscar C. Peña, The Hormonal Laura Reagan-Porras, The Rio Rie Sheridan Rose, These Are The Places You Will Find La Lupe, Tight Gene Novogrodsky, Inspired By The Late John Trevor Wainwright, War is Ann Fogelman, We Will Laura Grace Reagan, While She Hector Gómez, While We Feast On Hector Gómez, Richard Sánchez, Work Rachel Udow, So,: Saraí García, Squawking Chip Dameron, Succumbing to Kathy Trenfield Raines, Surrendering In Joanne Uppendahl, Terms and Oscar C. Peña, The Hormonal Laura Reagan-Porras, The Rio Rie Sheridan Rose, These Are The Places You Will Find La Lupe, Tight Gene Novogrodsky, Inspired By The Late John Trevor Wainwright, War is Ann Fogelman, We Will Laura Grace Reagan, While She Hector Gómez, While We Feast On Hector Gómez, Richard Sánchez, and Work Rachel Udow.

106 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 2012

About the author

TEDx Speaker Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, is a dual enrollment college instructor and high school English teacher. He serves as the 2023 and 2024/2025 McAllen Poet Laureate. His work has been taught and written about by academics across the U.S. and abroad and he is a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. García has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is also a singer/songwriter, former journalist, photographicationisticator, and word-maker-upper. García appears in the documentary, "ALTAR: Cruzando fronteras/Building bridges." He is the founder of the Rio Grande Valley Int'l. Poetry Festival. García served in the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Corpsman. His individual book titles include the #1 bestseller books and ebook You Know What I'm Sayin'? and Cenzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment (and its YA version), as well as the #1 bestseller ebook Pet Names. His new middle grades collection, Read Until You Bleed: Funny and Thoughtful Poems For Funny and Thoughtful Children, is now in print. García's work has appeared in several journals and anthologies.