Office: Curtin Hall 589
Phone: 414-229-6993
e-mail: cardenab@uwm.edu
Degree(s):
M.F.A., Creative Writing-Poetry
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1995
B.A., English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987
Teaching/Research Interests:
Poetry Writing, United States Latino/a Literatures and Cultures, Performance Art, Interdisciplinary Arts-Poetry in Collaboration with Other Arts.
Other Relevant Activities:
Board Member, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI; MARCH (Movimiento Artistico Chicano), Inc., Chicago, IL. Advisory Circle Member, Con Tinta Latino Literary Organization.
Selected Publications:
Books and Compact Disk:
Boomerang (collection of poetry forthcoming from Bilingual Review Press)
From the Tongues of Brick and Stone (Momotombo Press, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2005)
Co-Editor, Between the Heart and the Land / Entre el Corazon y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH Abrazo Press, 2001)
Chicano Illnoize: The Blue Island Sessions, poetry and music CD with Sonido Ink(quieto) (DeSPICable Records, 2001).
Poetry anthologized in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books, 2007); The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007); Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005); U. S. Latino Literature Today (Pearson Longman College Division Textbooks, 2004); Inhabiting the Body: A Collection of Poetry and Art by Women (Moon Journal Press, 2002); Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Random House, 2001); Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School (University of Iowa Press, 1999); Under the Pomegranate Tree: The Best Latino Erotica (Washington Square Press, 1996).
Poetry featured on-line in "The Wind Shifts: Six Poems from an Anthology of New Latino Poets," article and podcast by Francisco Aragon, The Poetry Foundation web site (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.html?id=179900), July, 2007; "Empty Spaces" on the Poetry Daily web site (http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=13387), August 26, 2006; "Across Frontiers: The Poetry of Brenda Cardenas," Special Chapter in the e-poets.net Book of Voices, http://voices.e-poets.net/CardenasB/intro.shtml, launched 2002.
Poetry published in a number of literary magazines, including After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art, RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century, and Prairie Schooner.
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Performance Art and Installation Projects: Many performances throughout the nation with Sonido Ink(quieto), a spoken word and music ensemble (2000-2002); Floricanto: A Feast of the Arts, Poetry and Printmaking Exhibit and Performance with artist Jeff Abbey Maldonado and five other poets, Chicago Field Museum (2000) and Chicago Cultural Center (1999); Undesirable Elements/Chicago, Conceptual Theater Piece conceived and directed by Ping Chong in association with the six cast members, University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chernin Center for the Arts in Chicago (1999); Mas Cara, collaborative installation included in "Turning Points: Seven Collaborative Arts Pieces," University of Michigan (1998); Oh Goya! Goya with dancer and choreographer Evelyn Vélez Aguayo, included "Corpus Delecti—Sex, Food and Body Politics: A Season of U.S. Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American Performance Art," The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England (1996).
