Poetry:
Beatriz Badikian-Gartler, Ph.D. is a Chicago poet, teacher of writing and literature, multilingual speaker, and world traveler.
Book Publications:Mapmaker Revisited: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Gladsome Books, 1999. Mapmaker Revisited is a newly revised and expanded edition of Beatriz' previous collection, Mapmaker, (now out of print). Mapmaker. Chicago: Red Triangle Books, 1994.
Akewa is a Woman and other poems. Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 1989.
Akewa is a Woman. Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 1983.
Partial list of published poems:
"Cajas de zapatos" ("Shoeboxes"), "I have been painting on leaves," "Neither Here Nor There," "Our Work." "Entre el corazon y la tierra (Between the heart and the land)." Chicago: March/Abrazo Press, 2001.
"Terra Mater," "In the Garden." Seeding the Snow. Chicago, 2000
"We are Penelope." Her Mark calendar. Woman Made Gallery, 2000
"The writer at her work." Powerlines. Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1999
"The Butterfly." Pleiades. Missouri: Central Missouri State University, 1994.
"Ragdale Evenings", Borderlands and Barrios. New Jersey: Routledge Press, 1994.
"Elements for an autobiographical poem." People Profiles. Toronto: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1993.
"We are what we dream." Ruptures: la revue de trois Ameriques. Montreal: Ruptures Press, 1993 (in translation).
"Martha reads." Hammers. Evanston: Doublestar Press, 1993.
"Elements for an autobiographical poem." Hammers. Evanston: Doublestar Press, 1992.
"Un Poema Argentino." The Poetry Connection: Dial-a-Poem Tenth Anniversary Anthology. Chicago: The Chicago Office of Fine Arts, 1991
Book Publications:Mapmaker Revisited: New and Selected Poems. Chicago: Gladsome Books, 1999. Mapmaker Revisited is a newly revised and expanded edition of Beatriz' previous collection, Mapmaker, (now out of print). Mapmaker. Chicago: Red Triangle Books, 1994.
Akewa is a Woman and other poems. Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 1989.
Akewa is a Woman. Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 1983.
Partial list of published poems:
"Cajas de zapatos" ("Shoeboxes"), "I have been painting on leaves," "Neither Here Nor There," "Our Work." "Entre el corazon y la tierra (Between the heart and the land)." Chicago: March/Abrazo Press, 2001.
"Terra Mater," "In the Garden." Seeding the Snow. Chicago, 2000
"We are Penelope." Her Mark calendar. Woman Made Gallery, 2000
"The writer at her work." Powerlines. Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1999
"The Butterfly." Pleiades. Missouri: Central Missouri State University, 1994.
"Ragdale Evenings", Borderlands and Barrios. New Jersey: Routledge Press, 1994.
"Elements for an autobiographical poem." People Profiles. Toronto: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1993.
"We are what we dream." Ruptures: la revue de trois Ameriques. Montreal: Ruptures Press, 1993 (in translation).
"Martha reads." Hammers. Evanston: Doublestar Press, 1993.
"Elements for an autobiographical poem." Hammers. Evanston: Doublestar Press, 1992.
"Un Poema Argentino." The Poetry Connection: Dial-a-Poem Tenth Anniversary Anthology. Chicago: The Chicago Office of Fine Arts, 1991
Non-Fiction
Essays:
"I Hear You Sister: African-American and Latina Women Speak (to each other)."
(click here for excerpt)
"Let Us All In: A Manifesto." El Otro (click here for excerpt)
"Nothing (N)Ever Changes: Chronicle of a return."
"Sisters of the Road: American Women Travel Writers."
"Home is a Time, not a Place: Chronicle of a Return." Bridge, 2000.
Judy Chicago. Significant Contemporary Feminists: A Biocritical Sourcebook. Jennifer Scanlon, editor. Greenwood Press, 1999. (click here for excerpt)
"A Necessary Evil: My Love/Hate Relationship with Translation." The Metropolitan Review. San Francisco, 1999.
"Mapmaking: The Poet as Travel Writer." What Makes Us Go: Travel Culture Anthology. Carol Williams, editor. Westport: Greenwood/Praeger, 1998.
"Food and sex, that's all we're good for: Images of women in Like Water for Chocolate." Journal of Film and History, Popular Culture Center, Cleveland, Ok, 1998.
Memoir:
"Neither Here Nor There: Multiplicity in the Borderlands." (click for excerpt)
I Write, Therefore I Am: Beatriz Badikian, en La Vida October 1999.
In addition to publishing essays and memoir, Beatriz also teaches classes and offers workshops on these topics.
Email Beatriz for more information on upcoming events.
"I Hear You Sister: African-American and Latina Women Speak (to each other)."
(click here for excerpt)
"Let Us All In: A Manifesto." El Otro (click here for excerpt)
"Nothing (N)Ever Changes: Chronicle of a return."
"Sisters of the Road: American Women Travel Writers."
"Home is a Time, not a Place: Chronicle of a Return." Bridge, 2000.
Judy Chicago. Significant Contemporary Feminists: A Biocritical Sourcebook. Jennifer Scanlon, editor. Greenwood Press, 1999. (click here for excerpt)
"A Necessary Evil: My Love/Hate Relationship with Translation." The Metropolitan Review. San Francisco, 1999.
"Mapmaking: The Poet as Travel Writer." What Makes Us Go: Travel Culture Anthology. Carol Williams, editor. Westport: Greenwood/Praeger, 1998.
"Food and sex, that's all we're good for: Images of women in Like Water for Chocolate." Journal of Film and History, Popular Culture Center, Cleveland, Ok, 1998.
Memoir:
"Neither Here Nor There: Multiplicity in the Borderlands." (click for excerpt)
I Write, Therefore I Am: Beatriz Badikian, en La Vida October 1999.
In addition to publishing essays and memoir, Beatriz also teaches classes and offers workshops on these topics.
Email Beatriz for more information on upcoming events.
Film theory:
Beatriz teaches film theory and writes film reviews for La Raza, among other publications, and has published scholarly essays on film.
"Olympia." Film & History
"Food and sex, that's all we're good for: Images of women in Like Water for Chocolate." Journal of Film and History, Popular Culture Center, Cleveland, Oh, 1998.
Film Reviews in La Raza and other publications 1999-2002:
Romantica y moderna "Los amantes del Circulo Polar"
Buena Vista Social Club
Eyes Wide Shut
Run Lola Run: Como el presente puede cambiar el futuro (en un segundo) July 10, 1999
"Olympia." Film & History
"Food and sex, that's all we're good for: Images of women in Like Water for Chocolate." Journal of Film and History, Popular Culture Center, Cleveland, Oh, 1998.
Film Reviews in La Raza and other publications 1999-2002:
Romantica y moderna "Los amantes del Circulo Polar"
Buena Vista Social Club
Eyes Wide Shut
Run Lola Run: Como el presente puede cambiar el futuro (en un segundo) July 10, 1999