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
"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.
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