Found Poems on the U.S.-México Border

Notes

“Overview” (source text): “Border Patrol Overview.” https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/overview.

“Overview” (image): I created this artistic rendition of the U.S.-México border.

“Special Operations” (source text): U.S. Customs and Border Protection website. “Programs and Special Operations:

What is the Missing Migrant Program?” https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/operations/special-operations.

“Special Operations” (image): “Photograph of Company F, 1st Arizona Infantry, on Mexican Border Stationed at

Naco, Arizona, May 9, 1916 to April 1, 1917.” National Archives Identifier: 158884368. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/158884368.

D. Seth Horton

D. Seth Horton was born by the border, wrote his doctoral dissertation on modernist literature in the American Southwest, and founded the anthology series, New Stories from the Southwest. He has also reviewed books for the El Paso Times and currently serves on the editorial board of the journal, Southwestern American Literature.

His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in more than 90 publications. His new collection of experimental stories set throughout the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, On a NASA Flight to Heaven, will be published on October 29, 2024 by TCU Press.

He currently teaches creative writing and American literature at the University of Virginia.

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Found Poems on the U.S.-México Border

D. Seth Horton