I'd ask you to join me by the Rio Bravo and weep but you should know neither river nor tears remain - Tapa blanda

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Jorge Humberto Chavez was born in Ciudad Juarez, on the US/Mexican border in 1959. Since 1980, he has published seven collections of poetry in Mexico, the current volume (Te diría que fuéramos al Río Bravo a llorar pero debes saber que ya no hay río ni llanto) being the most recent, as well as being the winner of the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize in 2013. His work has been translated into several languages and books have appeared in English (a selected poems in the U.S.A. in 2003), French and Italian. A major career retrospective volume is in development at Ediciones Vaso Roto (Monterrey & Madrid). Chávez also founded the Chihuahua International Festival in Ciudad Juarez, founded and coordinated the international writers' meetings 'Literatura in el Bravo', and curated the International Literary Festival in San Luis Potosi.

Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) writes in both Spanish and English and has published over one hundred books as author or anthologist, in a wide range of genres. He lives in Madrid and New York City, and works as a literary translator. Other poetry collections he has translated include: Light's Volition/Voluntad de la luz by Luis Armenta Malpica (BookThug/Mantis), Eyes Already Ruined by Luis Aguilar (Libros Medio Siglo), The Book of Sad Professions by Miguel Maldonado (Destrazas Ediciones), and the forthcoming Topographies by Elsa Cross with paintings by Teresa Rubio (Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, 2017) and Nothing is Lost by Jordi Doce (Shearsman, 2017). He is also the publisher of A Midsummer Night's Press.