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Brenda Cárdenas
Milwaukee, WI Born: 1962 Read Verse Wisconsin's interview with Cardenas Listen to this interview with Cardenas with the Library of Congress |
Biography:
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Brenda Cárdenas is the author of two poetry collections, From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press, 2005) and Boomerang (Bilingual Review Press, 2009), as well as the coeditor of Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazon y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest. She writes in a blend of English and Spanish, which she has said reflects her interest in “the interconnectedness and juxtapositions of difference and similarity between seemingly disparate peoples, events, places, and experiences.” While Cárdenas often writes in free verse, she also experiments with a variety of forms, and, as Craig Santos Perez has noted, “This syncretic formal impulse reflects the polyphonic texture of Cárdenas’s language-scape.” Her poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (2007) and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007). She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and was Milwaukee’s poet laureate from 2010 to 2012.
(From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/brenda-cardenas)
Works by Brenda Cárdenas:
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Brenda Cárdenas is the author of two poetry collections, From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press, 2005) and Boomerang (Bilingual Review Press, 2009), as well as the coeditor of Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el corazon y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest. She writes in a blend of English and Spanish, which she has said reflects her interest in “the interconnectedness and juxtapositions of difference and similarity between seemingly disparate peoples, events, places, and experiences.” While Cárdenas often writes in free verse, she also experiments with a variety of forms, and, as Craig Santos Perez has noted, “This syncretic formal impulse reflects the polyphonic texture of Cárdenas’s language-scape.” Her poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (2007) and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007). She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and was Milwaukee’s poet laureate from 2010 to 2012.
(From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/brenda-cardenas)
Works by Brenda Cárdenas:
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Placa/Roll Call Podcast.” March 2016: Roll Call POETRY Podcast. Ed. Share, Don. Poetry Foundation, (2016): podcast.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Placa/Roll Call.” POETRY 207.6 Poetry Foundation, (2016): 599.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Our Lady of Sorrows.” POETRY 207.6 Poetry Foundation, (2016): 601.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “The Red Fox Who Toys with the Dead.” City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness. University of Chicago Press, (2015): 115-116.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Ghost Species.” City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness. University of Chicago Press, (2015): 332-333.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Inverse.” Jet Fuel Review 10. Lewis University, (2015): 1.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Spiral Unwound from the Inside Out.” Jet Fuel Review 10. Lewis University, (2015): 2.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Chiral Formation.” Jet Fuel Review 10. Lewis University, (2015): 1.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Under Water.” Verse Wisconsin 113. (2014): 5.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. Brenda Cardenas: Spotlight on U.S. Hispanic Writers. Library of Congress, 2014: Online.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Juan Felipe Herrera: Secret Rubble Juggler.” Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing.. Ed. Giménez-Smith, Carmen, and Chavez, John. Counterpath Press, (2014): 87-90.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “On the Coast in Pedasí.” Cave Canem Anthology XIV: Poems 2010-2011 1st. Willow Books, (2014): 14-15.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Ars Resistencia.” I Didn’t Know There Were Latinos in Wisconsin: Three Decades of Hispanic Writing. Ed. Mireles, Oscar. Cowfeather Press, (2014): 84-85.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Rupture.” Cuadernos de ALDEEU 26. La Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos / Spanish Professionals in America, Inc., (2013): 233.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. “Nexus.” Cuadernos de ALDEEU 26. La Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos / Spanish Professionals in America, Inc., (2013): 234.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E., and Harrison, Roberto A. Bread of the Earth/The Last Colors (Chapbook).Decentralized Publications, 2011: 7.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. Boomerang: Poems by Brenda Cárdenas. Bilingual Review Press, 2009: 92.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E. From the Tongues of Brick and Stone: Poems by Brenda Cárdenas.Momotombo Press, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2005: 48.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E., and Vazquez Paz, Johanny, eds. Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest. 2001. MARCH/Abrazo Press, 2001: 161.
- Cárdenas, Brenda E., Rodriguez, Aide, Casas, José, Ortiz, Jesus, Compean, Juan, and Compean, Ricardo. Sonido Ink(quieto)’s Chicano, Illnoize: The Blue Island Sessions. DeSPICable Records, 2001: Compact Disc.