For Ruth Behar I’m still thinking about your porch lightlike a full moon casting a foggy haloin the frigid air last night, the bare oaksbranching into the sky like nerve endingsinches away from the ...Read More
Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicéan barks of yore,That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,The weary, way-worn wanderer boreTo his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyac...Read More
What I’d rather not see isn’t here: no rope,no black body under a white moon swayinglimp from a tree, no bloodied drops of dewon the twenty-first of March 1981. That’sin another photo, like a do...Read More
“Yes: Let’s re-shoot America as a fantasy, a ’50s TV show in clear black and white, sponsored by Kent cigarettes, Wonder Bread, and good old-fashioned war, again. Let’s recreat...Read More
Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023, Blanc...Read More
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