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 Dr. Christopher Carmona  is an Assistant Professor and the Graduate Advisor in the department of English at the University of Texas at Brownsville where he focuses on Latin@/Chican@/Native Rhetorics and Poetics as well as Beat Poetry. He was a nominee for the Alfredo Cisneros de Miral Foundation Award for Writers in 2011 and a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2013. He has been published in journals such as Callaloo Literary Journal and The American Book Review. His first collection of poetry called beat was published by Slough Press and his second book, I Have Always Been Here is published by Otras Voces Press. He is currently working on a book entitled Nuevas Voces Poeticas: A Dialogue about the New Chican@ Poetics. He is the organizer of the Writers Live @ UTB Series and the Artistic Director of the Coalition of New Chican@ Artists and is on the Organization Committee for The Rio Grande Valley Coalition for Border Studies and Mexican American Studies.