Border Voices Poetry
27th year annual Anthology 2020

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2019 Border Voices Poetry
26th year annual Anthology

2018 In Lovely Blue: The Harp of Heaven
25th Annual Anthology

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2017 Standing In Heaven’s Fire
Our Children Are Wrapped in Song:

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 The Best of Border Voices: Poet Laureates,
Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Wisdom of Kids

Named “Best Poetry Anthology of 2007” by USABookNews!
Hardback: $24.95

 

2016 Twenty Three Years

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2015 was our first e-book and is available on Amazon Kindle 

The 2015 e-book anthology will feature the award-winning students and celebrity poets from the May 14, 2015 “Virtual” Poetry Fair at the ITV studios with a special dedication to Steve Kowit. Also, many other students have been published in this anthology. Published students were sent letters. To purchase this Border Voices Poetry e-book anthology please contact serettamartin@yahoo.com

 

The 2014 anthology featured at our poetry fair on May 31, 2014. To purchase Border Voices Poetry Anthologies please use this Border Voices ORDER FORM 2014  $19.00 ea. (including postage and handling) or order early and SAVE – you may pick up your copies at the fair for 16.95 per copy.

Featured Poets: Brendan Constantine & Poet-teachers: Jackleen Holton, Celia Sigmon, Veronica Cunningham, Seretta Martin, and Risa the Poetry Clown

 

20th Anniversary year – 2013 $19.00
Featured Poets: Risa the Poetry Clown, Francisco Bustos, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Steve Kowit

* * *Take a look at the amazing line-up of famous poets we’ve had over the years. This list will help you to know what previous anthologies to order: To order copies of anthologies from 1994 through 2016 contact serettamartin@yahoo.com

Marilyn Chin, Jack Grapes, Philip Levine, Fred Moramarco, Simon J. Ortiz, Leroy V. Quintana, Gary Soto, Quincy Troupe, Sherley Anne Williams.

 1995

Ai, Sandra Alcosser, Juan Felipe Herrera, Fred Moramarco, Ojenke, Margarita Luna Robles, Gary Snyder.

1996

Wanda Coleman, Glover Davis, Dorianne Laux, Li-Young Lee,
Adrienne Rich.

1997

Robert Hass, Sandra Cisneros, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, June Jordan, Lê Thi Diem Thúy.

1998

Robert Pinsky, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Donald Hall, Joy Harjo, Victor Martinez, Susan Luzzaro, Sekou Sundiata. (Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Laureate in Literature, was featured at a Border Voices event two months before the annual poetry fair.  Also appearing in separate events that year were Susan Sontag, and controversial filmmaker Michael Moore).

1999

W.S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Alberto Blanco, Eavan Boland,
devorah major.

2000

Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Martín Espada, Mark Strand, Genny Lim.

2001

Ernesto Cardenal, Steve Kowit, Naomi Shihab Nye, Reg E. Gaines,
Jayne Cortez.

2002

Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield, Gary Soto, and Marilyn Chin appeared at the fair at Montezuma Fall on April 27.  The day before the fair, Maya Angelou filled 7,500-seat Cox Arena.

2003

Francisco X. Alarcón, David Antin, Amy Gerstler, Sandra McPherson, Christine Huynh, Donna J. Watson.

2004

Adrienne Rich, Robert Creeley, Sandra Cisneros, Ken Waldman.

 2005

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (the fair was trimmed that year because of project director Jack Webb’s emergency heart operation).

2006

Dana Gioia, Sharon Olds, Luis J. Rodríguez, Len Waldman.

2007

Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Steve Kowit, Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo.

2008

Ekiwah Adler-Beléndez, Kay Ryan, Ilya Kaminsky, Li-Young Lee.

2009

Trish Dugger, Susanne Lummis, Rae Armantrout, Jericho Brown.

2010

Alberto Blanco, Steve Kowit, Ilya Kaminsky, David Tomas Martinez

2011

Steve Kowit, Celia Sigmon, Chris Baron, Seretta Martin

2012

Sandra Alcosser, Francisco Bustos, Regina Morin, Al Zolynas

2013

Risa the Poetry Clown, Francisco Bustos, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Steve Kowit

2014

Brendan Constantine, Jackleen Holton, Celia Sigmon, Veronica Cunningham, Seretta Martin, Risa the Poetry Clown

2015

Chris Vannoy, Joe Milosch

2016

Claudia Poquoc, Seretta Martin

2016

Celia Sigmon, Johnnierenee Nia Nelson, Claudia Poquoc,
Seretta Martin

2017

Chris Dickerson, Celia Sigmon, Seretta Martin, Leslie L.J. Reilly

2018

Johnnierenee Nia Nelson, Celia Sigmon Seretta Martin

2019

LaDean Berry, Mary Harker, Lynda Riese, Seretta Martin, Johnnierenee Nia Nelson, Leslie L J Reilly, Celia Simon,
Jovyn Anderson, Luke Anderson, Eli Anderson

2020

The Border Voices Team of Poet-teachers: 
Jack Webb, Seretta Martin, Johnnierenee Nia Nelson, Claudia Poquoc, Celia Sigmon, Veronica Cunningham, Francisco Bustos, and Leslie L. Reilly

In a new collaboration and partnership with the San Diego Entertainment + Arts Guild, Garden Oaks Press, the San Diego Poetry Annual and the Arts and Poets Series:
Poets and Poet-teachers:
Michael Klam, Angela Narciso Torres, Karen An-hwei Lee, Katie Manning, Ted Washington, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Sharon Elise, Ying Wu, Olga Garcia, Crystal Lane Swift, Judy Reeves, Ameerah Holliday, Rbt O’Sullivan Schleith, Steve Montgomery, Joe Milosch, Andy Palasciano, Jeff Walt, Pilar Rodriguez Aranda, Deborah Ramos, reg e gains, Lisa Albright Ratnavira, Kimberly Dark, Pat Andrus, Chris Ernest Nelson, Rae Armantrout, and William Harry Harding