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Bio of Raul Amaya
Financial services entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the investment, loan & life insurance industries.
• Taught a class at the University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Professional & Continuing Education on how to use a financial calculatorto do personal financial analyses.
• Was a consultant for the El Paso Independent School District where he taught high school teachers how to use a financial calculator to do personal financial analyses so they can in turn teach their students to do the same. This is now part of the curriculum for graduating seniors in the EPISD.
• Member of Texas State Senator Jose Rodriguez’s Education Advisory Committee.
• Condemnation Commissioner for the County of El Paso & the Texas Department of Transportation.
• Member of the National Issues Forum that telecasts its community forums 3 to 4 times per year on PBS Channel 13.
• On the board of directors of the League of Women Voters.
• On the board of directors of the Franklin Mountains Wilderness Coalition.
• For 11 years wrote an opinion & personal finance column for the El Paso Times.
• Was host of “Everybody is a Philosopher”a talk radio program that was broadcast Saturdays on KHRO 1150AM.
• Graduateof Jesuit High School and the University of Texas at El Paso with a B.B.A. in Business Management, Real Estate,& Texas Teacher Certification.
9/30/2011 | Download File (18.74 MB) - right click to download
Vince Gotera writes poems and stories, as well as the occasional creative nonfiction or critical article. His books include the three poetry collections — FIGHTING KITE, GHOST WARS, and DRAGONFLY — as well as the critical study RADICAL VISIONS: POETRY BY VIETNAM VETERANS.
Vince has been a Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa since 1995. He has also taught at Indiana University, Humboldt State University, Grinnell College, and Wartburg College. He also frequently teaches creative writing at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival sponsored by the University of Iowa.
Vince earned an MFA in poetry writing and a PhD in English from Indiana University. Other institutions where he has studied include Stanford University and San Francisco State University, where he earned his BA and MA, respectively.
Since 2000, Vince has been Editor of the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, originally established in 1815, the longest-lived literary magazine in the US. He was also Associate Editor of the LITERARY MAGAZINE REVIEW (1995-2001) and Poetry Editor of ASIAN AMERICA: JOURNAL OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS (1991-1993).
Gotera has won international, national, and local awards for his writing and teaching. In 2004, Gotera won the Global Filipino Literary Award in Poetry, an international award sponsored by the journal Our Own Voice. His national awards include a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993), The Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry from The Madison Review (1988), the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in poetry (1988), and an Academy of American Poets Prize (1988). He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times. At the University of Northern Iowa, Gotera won a Faculty Excellence Award from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts (2006).
Try these links to learn more:
http://vincegotera.blogspot.com
http://facebook.com/vince.gotera.poet
http://www.filedby.com/author/vince_gotera/357779/
9/24/2011 | Download File (14.96 MB) - right click to download
Tantra Bensko plays toward Lucidity in many ways, and has presented some methods and results through formats such as her writing, in a genre she calls Lucid Fiction. She has traveled across the country for decades doing healings, which she learned to do at a distance at 12. Her music, art, acting, Tantra Yoga teaching, and hypnosis combine play, spontaneous movement and sound, writing without pre-composition, and also expansion of the self, as well as a kind of feral wildness, and absurdist humor.
Two new books are recently out, The Cabinet of What You Don't See (ISMs Press) and Lucid Fiction (Night Publishing.) http://lucidmembrane.weebly.com/ Lucid Membrane addresses all levels of the self, from zany realism to explosively meditative. Three stories are hidden within it, one of which speaks directly to the subconscious to nudge it to become more Lucid, able to see truth, through manipulation, and illusion. Readers can put the password found in the book into the website's Secret Womb, and find even more of the book, in new, participatory forms.
9/24/2011 | Download File (14.96 MB) - right click to download
Tantra Bensko plays toward Lucidity in many ways, and has presented some methods and results through formats such as her writing, in a genre she calls Lucid Fiction. She has traveled across the country for decades doing healings, which she learned to do at a distance at 12. Her music, art, acting, Tantra Yoga teaching, and hypnosis combine play, spontaneous movement and sound, writing without pre-composition, and also expansion of the self, as well as a kind of feral wildness, and absurdist humor.
Two new books are recently out, The Cabinet of What You Don't See (ISMs Press) and Lucid Fiction (Night Publishing.) http://lucidmembrane.weebly.com/ Lucid Membrane addresses all levels of the self, from zany realism to explosively meditative. Three stories are hidden within it, one of which speaks directly to the subconscious to nudge it to become more Lucid, able to see truth, through manipulation, and illusion. Readers can put the password found in the book into the website's Secret Womb, and find even more of the book, in new, participatory forms.
9/22/2011 | Download File (16.93 MB) - right click to download
HENRY DENANDER was born in 1952 and lives in Stockholm, Sweden and on
Hydra Island in Greece. For over 25 years he has worked on the
business side of the entertainment industry. He is also the editor of
Kamini Press.
Henry Denander’s books are I know What She Will Say (Bottle of Smoke
Press, 2003), Weeks Like This (Bottle of Smoke Press, 2005), Bring
Down The Sun (ArtBureau, 2005), The Poetry of Mr. Blue (Bottle of
Smoke Press, 2007), The Loulaki Bar (Miskwabik Press, 2009),
His first poem was published in 1999 and now he’s had over two hundred
poems and many illustrations published in small press magazines and on
the web. He’s been published mainly in America but also in places like
Belgium, New Zealand, Australia, India and the UK. He has a website
with poetry and art at http://www.henrydenander.com.
He is also a fine artist.
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