Honora Spicer

Honora Spicer (she/her, Cambridge, MA, 1992) is a writer and experiential educator interested in place-based practices of public humanities. Her documentary poetry and literary translations from Spanish have appeared in Cardboard House Press, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, Tripwire, Asymptote, Latin American Literature Today, World Literature Today, Action Books, and elsewhere, and she writes a Jacket2 Commentary called 'Architectures of Disappearance.' She has designed and led expeditionary learning programs, teaching college-accredited courses in literature, history, and Spanish language while biking, mountaineering, and paddling. Her current book project, POST BOND, is an excavation of ongoing United States empire in one square mile in El Paso, TX. Through a spatial analysis of proximate federal institutions and following routes of transportation, capital, and language, the study follows intersecting historical roles of the postal service, customs enforcement, immigration enforcement and NASA in transforming space into frontier, port, and prison, and incorporates historical research, essay, and documentary poetry. She lives in Providence, RI. (www.honoraspicer.com)