At a time when Arizona's new immigration law has created an intensified national controversy over the value and worth of the people of our border regions, Steven and Reefka Schneider's new collection of poetry and art Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives (Wings Press, $19.95) has the power to make us pause to reflect on the stories and conditions of their lives.  Steven and Reefka will sign and present drawings and poetry from the book, a series of 25 moving vignettes of border people and their lives expressed as a page of poetry in English and Spanish opposite its related portrait.Steven P. Schneider is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas-Pan American, and is a founding member of the South Texas Literacy Coalition in the Rio Grande Valley.  he is the recipient of two Big Read grants from the NEA, and has used Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives traveling exhibit to promote the teaching of culturally relevant literature and creativity.  His poems and essays have been published in journals including Tikkun, Prairie Schooner, and Critical Quarterly, and his books include A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope and poetry collections Prairie Air Show and Unexpected Guests.