Tag: Quinceañera
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* tom murphy & moving adelante
The poem above comes from Tom Murphy’s chapbook horizon to horizon. One of the things I’m moved by in the poem is the way the form mimics the conceptual space the speaker is contemplating. Standing before the mirror on the “First mother’s day without ma,” the speaker positions themselves in a new place, a blank page…
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* new poem up at Luna Luna
Happy to announce that my poem “Quinceañera” has just been published online by Luna Luna as part of their 3o Latin@ Poets/30 Days project. This poem is a special one for me. I was allowed to go into what the poem means to me in a Q & A accompanying the poem. Here’s what I said…
The Friday Influence 