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Alberto Ross mother was raised in Lancashire, Warrington, England; his father in Tapachulas, Chiapas, Mexico. Ros himself grew up on the US side of the US/Mexico border. In his life and in his poetry there has always been more than one language, more than one culture, more than one perspective. Border, frontera, la lnea, the line, the fence, the wall. What it was, what it is, what it could be. Well look at lines that divide, lines that define, lines that shift, lines that embrace, lines that enclose, lines that highlight, lines that blunder, lines that underscore, lines that sing, lines that give birth. Musical and mercurial, these poems bear the heritage of lo real maravilloso, magical realism, by finding whats extraordinary within our everyday lives. Alberto Ros will join us during part of our discussion. As well as this book, participants should read The Border: A Double Sonnet: https://poets.org/poem/border-double-sonnet