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Host Daniel Chacon welcomes UTEP Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies Kadiri Fernandez to discuss life during the pandemic and her

Credit Joy Harjo   EL PASO, Texas — The University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Creative Writing announced that Joy Harjo, second-term Poet Laureate of the United States, will participate in a virtual reading and conversation at 5 p.m. MDT Friday, April 16, 2021. Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and the first Native American to hold that post, is one of the most important living U.S. poets, said Daniel Chacon, professor and chair of the Department of Creative Writing. He said the fact that she was asked to serve a second term speaks to her cultural and literary significance.

13:17 One of the big stories to come out of the Roundhouse yesterday actually involves Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. State Auditor Brian Colon announced that he was moving ahead with a special audit of the Governor's discretionary fund, after local reporting discovered more than $13,000 in groceries, liquor purchases and dry cleaning over a six-month period in 2020. A group of Republican lawmakers also requested the audit in a letter to Auditor Colon. The Governor's office has said the purchases were appropriate but may have been excessive at times.   In the House, we saw movement on ...

In today’s episode of Words on a Wire host, Daniel Chacon, interviews fiction writer Lorraine M. Lopez on her new book “Postcards from the Gerund State.”