Category: Weekly Posts
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Thinking West with Marc Reisner
In the West, it is said, water flows uphill toward money. And it literally does, as it leaps three thousand feet across the Tehachapi Mountains in gigantic siphons to slake the thirst of Los Angeles, as it is shoved a thousand feet out of Colorado River canyons to water Phoenix and Palm Springs and the…
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Launch Party Info/Fun Video
Don’t forget to come to our launch party and pizza feast on Friday, September 12 (5:00 PM). In the mean time, enjoy this short video…. JohnnyExpress from AlfredImageworks on Vimeo.
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El Portal Launch Party! (12 Sept.)
We’re happy to announce that the launch party for the Spring 2014 Edition of El Portal will be hosted on Friday, September 12th. The festivities begin at 5:00pm in Bernalillo Hall, so if you’re in the area we would love for you to attend! ENMU students, we know you’ve been anxiously waiting to find out the winning entries.…
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Visiting West With Cormac McCarthy
The bloodred dust blew down out of the sun. He touched the horse with his heels and rode on. He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west across the evening land and the small desert birds flew chittering among the dry bracken and horse and rider…
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Thinking West With Robert Warren
For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your…
El Portal Literary Journal 