Sex, Politics, and the Tocantins River
(Tocantins – Brazil, 1990) At four-twenty-four in the afternoon, the five dogs in the hard-packed dirt farm-yard were oblivious to the political meeting going…
Arthur Powers
Arthur Powers went to Brazil in 1969 as a Peace Corps Volunteer and spent most of his adult life there, including seven years serving with the Franciscans on the Amazon frontier and organizing subsistence farmers. He authored two collections of short stories set in Brazil: A Hero for the People (Press 53), winner of the 2014 Catholic Arts & Letters Award, and Padre Raimundo's Army (forthcoming from Wiseblood Books). He received a Fellowship in Fiction from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the 2012 Tuscany Novella Prize, three annual awards for short fiction from the Catholic Press Association, and served three years as Judge for Winning Writers' Tom Howard fiction contest.