Edgar Gabriel Silex
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Edgar Gabriel Silex, Tigua Pueblo poet
Tri-cultural poet Edgar Silex was born in El Paso, Texas. He writes from his Native American/Chicano/European ancestry.
Edgar holds a BA and an MFA from the University of Maryland at College Park and teaches at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His poems have appeared in Harper's Ferry Review, The Baltimore Review, The New American Poets: A Breadloaf Anthology, and Gargoyle, among others. He has served as poet-in-residence for Howard County, Maryland high schools, for Diné Reservation high schools, and Hartford, Connecticut high schools. He currently lives with his family in Laurel, Maryland and teaches at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Awards
Edgar was awarded a $20000 fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1995. He received three nominations for the Pushcart Prize in 1996 and one in 1992. He was selected to the 1995 and 1996 Maryland Poetry Quartets and received a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in 1995. Edgar was the Featured Poet in the Hispanic Culture Review in the Summer 1993 issue and the Featured Poet in Haight Ashbury Literary Journal in the Summer 1992 issue. He received an Academy of American Poets Honorable Mention in 1993.
Writing Available Online
Chief Nanay Appears in the Holy Land from Poets Against the War
The Planting of the Blue Corn from NPR (Listen to the poem)
The Birthday - August 25, 1980
Blue Cloud Rides Horses in Ralph
Hear Edgar read at the Library of Congress (audio)
Books by Edgar Gabriel Silex
Acts of Love, Curbstone Press.
- Review of Acts of Love at NewPages.com
- Publisher's page
Through All The Displacements, Curbstone Press.
Even the Dead Have Memories, New Sins Press.
Anthologies
Over this soil: an anthology of world farm poems, Catherine Webster (editor), University of Iowa Press.
Weavings 2000: A Maryland Millennial Anthology, Michael S. Glaser (Editor), Forest Woods Media Prod.
The Floating Borderlands Anthology: Twenty-five Years of Hispanic Literature, Lauro Flores (Editor) , Univ. Washington Press.
The New American Poets: A Breadloaf Anthology, Michael Collier (editor), Univ. Press of New England.
Word Up Baltimore: A Poetry Collection, (CD), Blair Ewing, producer, a Maryland Poetry Review Project, 1997.
Identity Lessons: Learning American Style, Maria M. Gillan, Jennifer Gillan (Editors), Penguin Putnam Press, 1998.
Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination, Martin Espada, Curbstone Press.
This Far Together: The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal Anthology, Joanne Hotchkiss, Alice Rogoff, Will Walker (Editors), Bay Area Center for Arts and Technology.
WPFW 89.3FM Poetry Anthology, Grace Cavalieri.
Interviews
Edgar Silex with host Michael Collier on The Writing Life Cable TV Series.
Interview with Edgar by Jason Sparapani at Curbstone Press.
Fork Roads, interviewed by Terren Wein, Winter 1996.
The Baltimore Sun (Carroll County), Feb. 26, 1996, Featured in an article.
The Washington Post, July 15, 1993, Featured in an article.
See Also
Profile of Edgar at Curbstone Press
A short biography from the Internet Public Library's Native American Authors Project.
This page is part of the Storytellers: Native American Authors Online project.
