Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Chamizal Dream

Moment of peace
                             overlooking the river,
         changing flow and shifting banks
switching as often as its name.

Monument of peace
        setting a treaty
                        settling a boundary
             tracing a war wound.

Man of peace
          prizing vigilance
                   celebrating synecdoche
                                 chronicling dreams.

Mothers of peace
                                working on this side
                  working on that side
                       working, always working

Moment of peace
                         sweating the desert
                 reading the lines
         gauging prospects.

In Chamizal,
between wound and salt,
between undocumented and legal,
to dare to Act to Dream.


(Obama speaks on immigration, Chamizal National Memorial Park in El Paso, Texas, 10 May 2011, Mother's Day in Mexico)
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