"THE OLD GRINGO" LIMON INTERVIEW SPRING 2010

"NOTES FROM THE EDITOR OF LIMON MAGAZINE 2010"

"To kick-off the first issue of 2010 I‟ve assembled an interesting mix of articles that focus on differ-ent levels of our community. Some articles focus on people around the Latin American & Iberian Institute, others on people doing work in Albuquerque, and still others who are doing work in Central America. I hope you will take note of the LAII activities highlighted on the next page, as the institute is bringing speakers to respond to Vicente Fox‟s visit last semester. They should be informative, interesting, and hopefully controversial. I look forward to these speakers stirring up their fair share of debate around the institute and perhaps on campus. Two people connected to the LAII have generously donated their time in agreeing to be interviewed this month, and so I would like to personally thank both Lisa Burns and David Wilde for their involvement. With fewer conferences hosted by the institute in these first months, I look forward to the events scheduled for later in the semester and hope that we can do our part to bring them to you in some sense through LIMON. To all of you taking your comps, good luck and don‟t study too hard! Keep your eye out for our next SOLAS meeting and happy hour (it‟ll be announced on the listserv.) As always, with any events or ideas for articles don‟t hesitate to contact me. Enjoy the snow while it lasts,

Alex Acerra"

Booksignings in April 2010

MONDAY April 5th I will be signing the Golden Mushrooms anthology book with my entry on page 83 called Returning Home. Written in 1993 about New Mexico after being on vacation in Europe. The Anthology is produced by the Austrian Society of Literature in Vienna. This event will take place in Ortega Hall, 3rd floor.

#2 booksigning will be on Wednesday 7th April for the Poetry Month at University New Mexico Bookstore. New Spanish poetry will be introduced with special guests from Spanish and Portuguese Department at University New Mexico and music.

Both events at 12:00 noon