POETRY, ART, and THE BORDER

Roberto Tejada is the author of the poetry collections Why the Assembly Disbanded, Full Foreground, Exposition Park, and Mirrors for Gold, as well as several works of art and media history. A translator, editor, essayist, art historian, and cultural critic, Tejada’s research and creative interests involve the language arts and image worlds of Latin America, especially Mexico, Brazil, the US-Mexico Borderlands, and other sites of US Latinx cultural production. He is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches in the Departments of English, Creative Writing, and Art History. Carbonate of Copper is his new collection of poetry.