This is not the Valley of the Dead
“This is not the Valley of the Dead” is a sample of hybrid poems by Xochilt Sequeira whose discursive material is built from free verse, diary entries, and notebook notes. It is, likewise, a project built using the ekphrasis, since it proposes a dialogue between poetry and photography depicting, in most cases, the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.
About the Artist
Xochilt Sequeira born in Managua, Nicaragua (1982). Poet. Sequeira has published "Quien me espera no existe", Nicaraguan Writers Center, 2006 (directed by Ernesto Cardenal). Honorable mention in the IV National Poetry Contest "Mariana Sansón" 2006. Sequeira has been included in various Central American and Mexican anthologies, as well as in literary magazines of Germany, Chile, Mexico, the United States, and Central America. In Nicaragua, she appears in “El Hilo Azul”, a magazine directed by the Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez. She has attended, since 2006, the Granada International Poetry Festival and other poetry festivals in the Central American region and Mexico. Likewise, she has organized and developed conferences with women deprived of liberty and people with hearing disabilities. She collaborates with performers and visual arts artists. She is a member of PEN-Nicaragua. She graduated from the Master of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso. Sequeira is currently studying for a doctorate in Spanish at the University of Arizona.
