Boundless 2019: Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival Anthology

by Daniel García Ordaz, Daniel García Ordaz, Vanessa Caraveo

El Zarape Press presents Boundless 2019, the official anthology of the 12th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. Boundless is an eclectic collection of poetry from around Texas and the U.S.A., with contributions by poets from Scotland, England, India, and Mexico. Youth Anthology is also included!The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (V.I.P.F.) is held annually in deep south Texas.www.valleypoetryfest.orgPoetry * Music * Art#VIPF2018

126 pages, Paperback

Published April 13, 2019

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.