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The following links are a general overview of various Alberto Ríos references and resources on the web. This is a sampling, not a comprehensive list.
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Features
ASU English: Alberto Ríos on Día de los Muertos (video)
ASU Alumni Magazine: Poesía del Sol Outreach Project ( 2 )
ASU Department of English
ASU Department of Transborder
ASU Herberger College: “Public Art at ASU: Moving Poems” ( 2 ) ( 3 )
ASU Libraries: “FORO 2007” Keynote Address ( 2 )
ASU Magazine: “Art on a Cart”
ASU Magazine: Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing opening
ASU News: Capirotada (2-2-09)
ASU News: Capirotada (3-11-09)
ASU Research Magazine
Latino Perspectives Magazine
Narrative Magazine
PEN American Center
Phoenix Public Library: “The Matthew Shepard Renga Project: A Community Poem”
Ploughshares
Poetry Daily
The Quirk
The Writer’s Almanac
Verse Daily
Young Writers Program: The Border Project
Video
ASU Department of English
Alberto Ríos on Día de los Muertos
City of Chandler Celebration of Unity (Keynote Address)
Governor Janet Napolitano’s inauguration: “A Sustainable Courage” (Poem) ( 2 )
PBS: “Poet’s Work Chronicles a Couple’s Love”
ASU Libraries: “FORO 2007: Librarians for the 21st Century” (Keynote Address)
PBS: The Lehrer Online NewsHour
Audio
A Marrow of Water (Poem)
Lisandro Speaks But Inside Himself To his Wife (Poem)
Nani (Poem)
Refugio’s Hair (Poem)
The Online NewsHour
The Writer’s Almanac: “In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did (Poem, read by Garrison Keillor)
The Writer’s Almanac: “Summers, About 1959” (Poem, read by Garrison Keillor)
The Writer’s Almanac: “The Dog Inside Mine” (Poem, read by Garrison Keillor)
Interviews See also: interviews
AARP Segunda Juventud
Américas Review
ASU Research Magazine: Discovering the Alphabet of Life ( 2 ) ( 3 )
Bloomsbury Review ( 2 ) ( 3 )
Bloomsbury Review
Confluencia
Glimmer Train
Northwest Arkansas Community College ( 2 )
Red Rock Review
The Online NewsHour
Poems
A Man then Suddenly Stops Moving
A Physics of Sudden Light
A Small Motor ( 2 )
A Song of the Old Days
A Sustainable Courage (Second Inaugural Poem)
A Yellow Leaf ( 2 ) ( 3 )
Afternoon
Arizona, the Sun, and What That’s Like
Border Lines/Líneas Fronterizas
Clemente, In Love, Speaks to Himself in the Mirror
Coffee in the Afternoon
Dark-Haired Men
Day of the Refugios ( 2 )
El Esplendor
England Finally, Like My Mother Always Said We Would
Explaining a Husband
Five Indiscretions
Gathering House
Having Eaten That Way Again
Her Secret Love, Whispered Late in Her Years
I Heard Him with My Back
Lisandro Speaks But Inside Himself to His Wife
Mason Jars by the Window
Mi Abuelo
Morning
Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
My Husband Clemente
Nani ( 2 )
Nikita
On the Bumpers of the Fast Cars in the High School Parking Lot
Pictures Looked At Once More
Rabbits and Fire
Refugio’s Hair
Seniors
Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
Teodoro Luna Confesses After Years to His Brother, Anselmo the Priest, Who Is Required to Understand, But Who Understands Anyway, More Than People Think
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses ( 2 )
The Chair She Sits In ( 2 )
The Cities Inside Us ( 2 )
The Good Lunch of Oceans
The Injured Thumb
The Lime Orchard Woman
The Night of No Airplanes
The Night Would Grow Like a Telescope Pulled Out
The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd ( 2 )
The Song of His Hands
Tuesday Soup
Our Other Man
What a Boy Can Do
Stories
The Iguana Killer ( 2 )
Then They’d Watch Comedies
Essays
The Night of No Airplanes (Essay on 9-11 events)
ASU Artists Respond (Website)
Phoenix Metro Area Population Comparisons (Census Comparisons)
West Real (Introduction to Ploughshares)
Profiles
American Passages
ASU Department of English
American Poetry Review (photographs)
The Academy of American Poets
NationMaster Encyclopedia
Norton Poets Online
Ploughshares
Poetry Foundation
The Online NewsHour
Wikipedia
Critical Response (For book reviews, see individual books)
Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story
Contemporary American Ethnic Poets
Cultura, Lenguage, y Representación/Culture, Language, and Representation
Dictionary of Literary Biography
ENotes
Journal of Language and Literature (“My Father and the Snow”)
Tracing Borders: The Poems of Alberto Ríos
Up Against the Border
Anyone interested in suggesting further citations, please email Ríos—with his many thanks.
