Very gratified to be included in the virtual exhibit Arte Latino NOW 2022. which includes my poem in two parts--"Native."
This poem was inspired by a class I attended in the Fall, 2021 with Presidential Inaugural poet Richard Blanco, and by his new book, How to Love a Country.
Inspired by the iconic final scene in the original The Planet of the Apes film, "Nova's Voice" was published in Mom Egg Review's Mother Figures issue--just in time for Mother's Day! I sent my Mom a copy--she's 99 years young! She always encouraged me to write and kept everything I ever wrote from Kindergarten verses on.
Very happy and honored to have a new poem published in the new issue of the Anacua Literary Arts Journal!
Many thanks to editors Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Prickly Pear Publishing
and
Edward Vidaurre, FlowerSong Press
"We go into neighborhoods and areas where high school students and community members have not normally had the opportunity or been empowered to tell or write their own stories or do other kinds of creative writing such as poetry, creative non-fiction, memoir, or fiction. By offering no or low cost creative writing workshops either on a one time basis or preferably in a week long project, we are able to work magic. "
It was a wonderful experience!
We were asked to provide a recording of one of our own poems.
Many thanks to Strange Horizons magazine and Poetry editor A.J. Odasso who chose my poem to feature in both English and Spanish! Thanks also to Poetry Editors Romie Stott and Ciro Faienza for their help!
Podcast: The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo
Print version of The Time Tourist
Strange Horizons is "a speculative fiction magazine, available free online, with a record of finding and supporting exciting new voices in SFF." They "support speculative fiction—science fiction, fantasy, horror, and all sorts of crossed genres between them—as an open, global tradition. In the last few years, we have published specials on Nigerian SFF, SFF from the Arab League community and diaspora, trans and nonbinary writing and experiences, as well as pieces on race, resistance, and disability."
My previously published sonnet "Point of No Return" was shortlisted for the Better than Starbucks! 2020 sonnet contest.
Better Than Starbucks 2020 Sonnet Contest
Winning poets receive:
First Place $350.
Second Place $100.
Third Place $50.
Out of more than 900 blind-read entries, a short list of 45 sonnets were chosen. From these, three winners and seven runner-up sonnets will be published. So we all have close to a 1 in 4 chance!
Good luck, fellow competitors!
Sonnet For Her Husband by Max Gutmann
I Dreamt of a Broken Bird by Ciarán Parkes
The Rule by Michael Stalcup
Last Call by Kit Rohrbach
To the Person Who will be the Last to Speak My Name by David Rosenthal
In Living Color by John Beaton
A sackful of heads by Mercedes Webb-Pullman
James Holman by Timothy Sandefur
The Miller’s Daughter Gives an Exclusive on Rumpelstiltskin by Melissa Balmain
The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian
Disremembered by Lee Nash
Forms and Forming by Richard Wakefield
Drystone by Jane Boxall
Onset by Max Gutmann
The Point of No Return by Beatriz F. Fernandez
Forms and Forming by Richard Wakefield
Something That Was Once Lovely by Carlene M. Gadapee
Saturday morning by Mercedes Webb-Pullman
Obviously by Hibah Shabkhez
Made of Gauze by Donald Zirilli
Museum of a Former Marriage by Jennifer Davis Michael
Release by Tim Taylor
After Mom, Pop, and Older Sis Left the Circus by Devon Balwit
Ornithology and its Discontents by Enriqueta Carrington
Asylum for Joshua by Maroula Blades
The Assumption (Mary speaks) by Conor Kelly
Paper Town by Midge Goldberg
Viparinama by Terence Culleton
Street Dreams by Linda Banks
The end by Steve Lang
Salvage by Catherine Chandler
Sonnet for a 25th Wedding Anniversary by Carolyn Martin
For Trevion in the Local News byBarbara Loots
Vampire by Daniel Ranson
Metal on Metal by Elizabeth Faris
Sonnet for a Homeless Woman Named Beth by Debbie Hall
Winning by Daniel Ranson
Erasure Sonnet by Martin Cossio
Winter Ravens by Matthew King
Pigeon by Catherine Edmunds
Using Our Words by Brett Mertins
On a Theme From Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz by Mark J. Mitchell
Shoes by Andrew Kuck
Tree by John W. Steele
Bones by Mark McDonnell
Another Love Poem by Melissa Balmain
