The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 13
How exactly do we get out of this apocalypse? The artists might just know. And why we need to be concerned about how U.S. military tactics abroad find their way home.
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“A border / was placed upon / land and dermis”
A Q&A with author Raquel Gutiérrez on art, the apocalypse, Interstate 10, and their new poetry book, Southwest Reconstruction.
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