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Damian Rogers: Teenage Riot

March 17, 2010 – 3:39 pm

I encountered Damian Rogers for the first time at this year’s US Poets in Mexico workshop. She was walking around Mérida, Mexico, frazzled, trying to track down her luggage that had been lost by the airline she’d flown in on a few days earlier. Despite her lack of possessions in a strange city, she made smart-ass remarks with me in the van to Chichen Itza and talked poetry and music.

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US Poets In Mexico

February 5, 2009 – 6:54 pm

This January 10-17, besides having a thousand opportunities to buy a hammock and accidentally eating frozen pineapple and Tabasco (yuck) in Merida, Mexico, I was lucky to participate in the first US Poets in Mexico conference. Unlike many other writing workshops abroad that just plop a bunch of Americans in another country only to interact [...]

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