ysletapoeta

a notebook that i began one summer in ysleta, tejas, ept. it continues east, following the course of el río grande~bravo to El Valle and into the gulf of méxico...

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

continued eminent domain abuse

eminent domain and manifest destiny / segundo barrio and now the ysleta area / i have not had the words to write about the recent city council decision / heart hurts / hope to write more soon

"EL PASO, Texas (AP) — It looks like an undeveloped dirt lot in a residential neighborhood, so city officials decided to put a long-awaited four-lane road extension through it.

But the square of dirt is a holy site for the Tigua Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe and the site of the tribe's original pueblo.

That's not the only problem with the planned road that would cut across other private property to create a direct path from Interstate 10 to a border highway on the city's congested southeast side."
Posted by Emmy at 9:12 AM

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Emmy
SOLSTICE (poems) and With the River on Our Face (forthcoming fall 2016). I was born and raised in Cali. After some time in NYC and Navajo country moved to la frontera by choice, by love, by the words of antepasados (literal and literary). Former New York Foundation for the Arts and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown poetry fellow. MFA Columbia. Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, 2009. Macondo Writers' Workshop Member. CantoMundo Fellow.
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