Second Literary Supplement, Lulu Torbet, Dare to Be Autobiography of Rabbi Morris Gordon, Janet Sternburg, Selected Poems, Tony Cohan, Mexican Days, Luis Miguel Aguilar, Selected Poems, Linda Schor, Visualize This, Manja Mary Argue, Flash Fiction, W. D. Snograss, Selected Poems, Robert Greene and Leah Feldon, Perfect Balance, Joseph Dispenza, Age Should Bring Wisdom, Lynette Seator, A Visit to a Shop that Leads to Reflections on Two Fallen Stars, Lynette Seator, Selected Poems, Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin, The Maya Gateway, Bill Pearlman, Selected Poems, Wayne Greenhaw, El Matador

This second literary supplement is produced by Atención and the San Miguel Authors' Sala.
It presents a series of excerpts from published and in-process works of authors who
have made San Miguel their home or plan to in the near future. We hope that you enjoy reading these selections and thank you for supporting Atención and the events of the San Miguel Authors' Sala.

Meg Matlach, editorial coordinator
Suzanne Ludekens, editor, Atención

Table of Contents

Lulu Torbet, Dare to Be … Autobiography of Rabbi Morris Gordon

Janet Sternburg, Selected Poems

Tony Cohan, Mexican Days

Luis Miguel Aguilar, Selected Poems

Linda Schor, Visualize This

Manja Mary Argue, Flash Fiction

W. D. Snograss, Selected Poems

Robert Greene and Leah Feldon, Perfect Balance

Joseph Dispenza, Age Should Bring Wisdom

Lynette Seator, A Visit to a Shop that Leads to Reflections on Two Fallen Stars

Lynette Seator, Selected Poems

Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin, The Maya Gateway

Bill Pearlman, Selected Poems

Wayne Greenhaw, El Matador

The Authors

Luis Miguel Aguilar

was born in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, in 1956. Former editor (now advisory editor) of the Mexican arts and culture magazine Nexos, Aguilar is the author of several books of poetry, criticism and fiction. The poems reprinted here are from a cycle of poems, Chetumal Bay Anthology, modeled after Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology and based on stories he heard growing up in Chetumal. The cycle of 23 poems appears in his 1990 collection of selected poems, Todo lo que sé. His most recent book is Fábulas de Ovidio (2001), versions of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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has lived in San Miguel de Allende for the past three years. During this time she has published three bilingual chapbooks of poetry: The Wolf Approaches/El Lobo Se Acerca, poems about love (unrequited), The Slide/El Tobogán, one memoir and unrelated poems and Passing…Transito…, poems of memory for family and friends who have passed away.

is the author of the best-selling travel memoir On Mexican Time and the memoir Native State, as well as the novels Opium and Canary, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writings have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, The Guardian, and The Los Angeles Times. He divides his time between Guanajuato, Mexico, and Venice, California. His new travel memoir, Mexican Days, will be published in April 2006.
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are full-time writers and permanent residents of San Miguel; most of their books are co-authored. Literary critic N. Katherine Hayles called their newest novel, The Maya Gateway, "a fascinating exploration into the continuities between a mythic past and technological future, personal identity and collective intuition … a witness to the pleasures and dangers of storytelling and to the enduring power of narrative to affect reality."
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Joseph Dispenza

is the author of God on Your Own: Finding a Spiritual Path Outside Religion and a dozen other books. He is co-founder of LifePath Retreats in San Miguel.

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is a best-selling author and respected journalist. Her most recent book, Does This Make Me Look Fat?, was featured on Oprah, Today and The View. Aside from her lifestyle books, she is also the co-writer of numerous health books, including the New York Times best-seller The Okinawa Program and its sequel, The Okinawa Diet Plan. A long-time correspondent for People magazine and a former Today Show contributor, Leah also produced and hosted her own show, Simply Style, for the Learning Channel.
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Dr. Robert A. Greene

is one of the country's leading hormone specialists, a world-renowned brain researcher and founder of Specialty Care for Women, a medical clinic in Redding, California, specializing in women's hormones.

is the ninth winner of the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction, given annually by the University of Alabama's College of Communication, joining such distinguished writers as Gay Talese, Rick Bragg, Diane McWhorter and Howell Raines.

Greenhaw, who lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and San Miguel de Allende is currently writing a screenplay of The Long Journey for a New York movie producer who is interested in making the movie on location in Alabama.
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has published four collections of poetry, as well as a text about Jung and the theater, Characters of the Sacred. He has published poetry and prose widely. His workshops in archetypal drama have been featured in San Miguel for seven years. He's still working on his backhand.
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is a Professor Emerita of Spanish literature whose published work was in the scholarly vein until she began writing poetry and occasional pieces for newspapers. Her books of poetry, After the Light and Behind the Wall Poems came after her four children left the nest. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Illinois Humanities Council and the Illinois Arts Council. San Miguel has been her home for two and a half years, but summers she slips away to Chicago for her big city fix.
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is the author of four books of short fiction. Her latest are The Body Parts Shop, published by Fiction Collective Two, and Adventures in Capitalism, published by Unicorn Press. She has had many stories in magazines and anthologies and has been nominated for an O'Henry Award, among many other awards. She's the fiction editor of the online literary magazine Salt River Review and teaches at The New School.
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is the author of The Fiction of Hortense Caliser, the first book-length study of the American novelist and short story writer. With her husband, W. D. Snodgrass, she co-edited and translated Numele tau/Your Name (2003), selected poems by the Romanian writer Dona Rosu. A regular contributor of review essays to The Georgia Review, Snodgrass has published poetry translations in over 60 magazines in the United States, Mexico, Europe and Japan.

Since the publication of his first book, Heart's Needle (1959), W. D. Snodgrass has published over 20 books of poetry, prose and translation. His many awards and honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Great Britain's Guinness Award and grants from the Guggenheim, Ford and Ingram-Merrill Foundations, among many other awards.
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is an essayist, poet, photographer and educator. Her new book is Optic Nerve: Photopoems (Red Hen Press, 2005), in which she integrates her photographs within her poems so that they function as visual stanzas. Sternburg is also a photographer whose work has been exhibited in one-person shows in New York, Los Angeles and in the Galería Principal of San Miguel's Bellas Artes. Her photography also has appeared in portfolios and cover images in numerous publications, among them Aperture and Art Journal, as well as in private and museum collections.
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Artist and photographer Lulu Torbet has authored, edited or ghostwritten over 30 books. Her first collaboration was with pioneering self-help guru George Bach (The Inner Enemy, A Time for Caring). She wrote three books with relationship therapist Harville Hendrix (including Keeping the Love You Find) before turning to ghostwritten autobiography (A Brush with Darkness, with blind painter Lisa Fittipaldi). After 25 years in Manhattan, and 15 in Marin County, California, she now lives in San Miguel.
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