SOURCES QUOTED IN FOR WANT OF WATER & OTHER POEMS

In the order by which they are referenced in the collection of poems:

• “The Mexico Drug War: Bodies for Billions,” by Ashley Fantz (from CNN), referenced in the collection's epigraphs.

• Book: If I Die in Juárez, by Stella Pope Duarte (University of Arizona Press), referenced in the poem "If I Die in Juárez."

• "20 Years of Border Femicide," by Kent Paterson (from NMSU's Frontera NorteSur), referenced in the poem "If I Die in Juárez."
• "Six women murdered each day as femicide in Mexico nears a pandemic," by Judith Matloff (Al Jazeera America), referenced in the poem "If I Die in Juárez."
• "Antigravity: Call of the Reviled," by Steve Mirsky (from Scientific American), referenced in the poem "13 Ways of Knowing Her."
• "Marcan 7 asesinatos el fin de semana entre los más violentos," (from El Diario), referenced in the poem "13 Ways of Knowing Her."
• "More cases of swine flu reported; WHO warns of 'health emergency'," by Mayra Cuevas (CNN), referenced in the poem "At a Party"
• "17 patients killed in shooting at Mexican drug rehab center," by Arthur Brice & Mariano Castillo (from CNN), referenced in the poem "Panic."
• "Mexico Drug War Fast Facts" (CNN Library), referenced in the poem "Panic" and throughout the book.
• "The Siege of Ciudad Juárez," by Eros Hoagland (TIME Magazine), referenced in the poem "Panic" and throughout the book.
• "Children live 2 weeks with slain mom's body," (Associated Press), referenced in the poem "A Loaf of Bread."
• "Children live with body of slain mother for 2 weeks," by Jenifer Warren & Max Vanzi (Los Angeles Times), referenced in the poem "A Loaf of Bread."
• "After 20-plus years, ex-teacher sentenced in grisly South Land Park murder," by Darrell Smith (Sacramento Bee), referenced in the poem "A Loaf of Bread."
• "Mexico man's face skinned and stitched onto a soccer ball in Sinaloa in threat to Juarez drug cartel," by Soraya Roberts (NY Daily News), referenced in the poem "The Eyes Open to a Cry."
• "The Cataclysmic 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines," (United States Geological Survey Fact Sheet 113-97), referenced in the poem "Bodies, and Other Natural Disasters."
• "Japan earthquake and tsunami: Timeline," (CNN), referenced in the poem "Bodies, and Other Natural Disasters."
• "A Film Unfinished," (PBS), referenced in the poem "Bodies, and Other Natural Disasters."
• "9:25 am - Dead Mom Dragged Across the Desert," (Albuquerque Journal, reporting from The El Paso Times), referenced in the poem "For Want of Water."
• Photo by Douglas Yates (Open to Interpretation), referenced in the poem "Moment in Storm."
• "Yutaka Takanashi du May 10 au July 29, 2012," (Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation), referenced in the poem "Moment in Storm."

RESOURCES

• Ciudad Juárez Urban Art and Poetry: A Digital Liberal Arts Project at Ohio Wesleyan University
• Museo Urbano Paso del Sur
• Paso del Sur
• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
• Ni Una Mas: The Fight to End Femicide in Juárez
• The Global Fund for Women's Ending Violence Against Women in Juárez, Mexico Initiative
• The Borderplex Alliance
• RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services)
• The University of Texas at El Paso's Center for InterAmerican and Border Studies
• The University of Texas at El Paso's Institute of Oral History
• The University of Texas at El Paso's Department of Creative Writing, (Bilingual Residential MFA in Creative Writing & Online MFA in Creative Writing)
• The University of Texas at El Paso's Women's & Gender Studies Program
• Humanities and Social Sciences Online: H-Borderlands and H-Borderlands Discussion Logs

Books:

• Courage, Resistance & Women in Ciudad Juárez: Challenges to Militarization, by Kathleen Staudt & Zulma Y. Méndez (University of Texas Press)

• Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness, by Alfredo Corchado (Penguin Books)

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