Lineas Conectadas / Connected Lines: Nueva Poesia De Los Estados Unidos / New Poetry of the United States

Through a partnership to promote wider access to literary voices of Mexican artists in the United States and American writers in Mexico, the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Embassy in Mexico, and Mexico's National Fund for Culture and the Arts have joined together to support a proposed three-year program of anthology publication and public outreach activities. In the first year, Sarabande has been named publisher of the poetry anthologies.

"We are pleased to introduce readers to the best of contemporary Mexican and American poetry through these comprehensive bilingual anthologies," states National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia. "I believe they will quickly become essential volumes for poetry lovers and grant new insight into both cultures."

Contributors include: Kay Ryan, Larry Levis, Thomas Lux, Marilyn Nelson, Ron Silliman, Molly Peacock, Amy Uyematsu, Jorie Graham, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Naomi Shihab Nye, and more.

April Lindner’s collection, Skin, won the 2002 Walt McDonald First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, The Formalist, and other magazines. Garrison Keillor read two of her poems on The Writer’s Almanac in May and chose one poem for his anthology Good Poems. She teaches creative writing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Zavala has given numerous seminars on creative writing and literature and has published several volumes of fiction, including Charras, Santillana. The novel is an account of the student leader known as Charras, who was abducted and murdered in the Yucatan. Hernan Lara Zavala is a professor at his alma mater, the National University, in Mexico City.