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Una acertada conjunción de esfuerzos en pro de la literatura del Valle de Texas y de Tamaulipas: el Gobierno Municipal encabezado por el Ing. Alfonso Sánchez Garza, el Instituto Matamorense para la Cultura y las Artes dirigido por la Lic. Hilda Corina Ramírez García, el Consulado de México en Brownsville a cargo del Cónsul Rodolfo Quilantán Arenas, el Festival Internacional de Otoño dirigido por la Sra. Florinda González de Pérez y el Ateneo Literario José Arrese de Matamoros presidido por Ramiro Rodríguez. Autores compilados en Río Bravo / Río Grande (ALJA Ediciones, 2012):...

A selection of poetry, published between 1995 and 2001, features poems that later were made into songs that appear in both versions, and includes works presented in reverse chronological order, with the idea that the reader, by having access to this work through the newest and nearest door, will soon be tempted to open other doors, as if doing an inventory.

La poesía de Efraín Huerta, reunida en este volumen, alcanzó una sorprendente variedad y una sensible riqueza de registros: desde el canto lírico, donde la vena amorosa y erótica es de una asombrosa energía, hasta los violentos textos de protesta y de indignación civil; desde la viñeta delicada hasta el gran fresco histórico.

In Ariel Francisco's Miami, invasive lionfish are sympathetic creatures, the beach succumbs to sea-level rise, and "305 till I die" is a cry for help. The speakers in these hilarious and melancholy poems depict a rich and varied emotional landscape that mirrors that of the state they long to leave, dead or alive. They imagine themselves standing on ocean garbage patches, contemplate the crabgrass on traffic medians, and envision the new beauty of a submerged Miami Beach: "Famed art deco replaced by fire coral / and colorful parrot fish, neon lights / restored by pulsating swarms of moon /...