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Kenya: Them and Us
NewBorder’s Creative Non-Fiction Editor Dalel Serda is exploring Kenya. We’ve convinced her to take a few minutes out of her busy days to keep a journal on her thoughts and how Kenya effects her...
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NewBorder Interview with Carmen Tafolla
I first met Carmen Tafolla in the fall of 2009, when I organized her reading at South Texas College in McAllen. I’d enjoyed her story collection The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans and felt my...
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The Road to Light
NewBorder’s Dalel Serda’s second installment of her Kenya Travels. For more on the Sanata Restart Centre please visit their website. For more of Dalel’s Kenyan Diaries, please go here. Kevin Maina...
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Kenya Chronicles 4: The Street
Each evening, at the midway point on the walk home from Sanata Restart Centre in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley’s provincial town of Gilgil, there is a boy of about twelve who leaves the shadows to approach...
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NewBorder Interview with Norma Elia Cantu
NB: First of all, thank you again for agreeing to this interview for NewBorder; we are honored to have you be a part of this inaugural season. You are helping us set the tone and standard for what we...
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Kenya Chronicles: The Maasai Poetry of an Acacia
From where I sit on the dining carriage of this train to Mombasa, a solitary acacia tree looks expansive against the crystalline azure of the Kenyan sunrise. Its pterodactyl wings stretch greedily and...
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NewBorder Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a poet, novelist, artist and writer of children’s books. He has studied at the University of Louvain, the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Iowa, and Stanford...
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NewBorder interview with Rigoberto González
Rigoberto González is the author of ten books of poetry and prose, and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships,...
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Joseph Rios’“La inmensidad”
Joseph Rios was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley. He studied literature at UC Berkeley. In 2011, he co-founded Quinto Sol Remembered to recover the history of the first Chicana/o press...
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