Pablo Neruda
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Poetry Break
Once again: “Your Life” by Andrea Gibson “I Carry Your Heart with Me” by e.e. cummings “Explaining My Depression to My Mother” by Sabrina Benaim “Ohm” by Saul Williams “Why are Muslims So…” by Sakila & Hawa “14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes” by Doc Luben “Some Things You Need to Know Before Continue reading
Allen Ginsberg, Amalia Ortiz, Andrea Gibson, Carlos Andres Gomez, Cassette Tape, Denice Frohman, Doc Luben, e. e. cummings, Edward Vidaurre, Edwin Bodney, Elizabeth Acevedo, Grace Carras, Guante, Helly Shah, Hobo Johnson & The LoveMakers, I Recorded This For You, In Albany New York, Jamie Mortara, Leticia, National Poetry Month, Neil Hilborn, Pablo Neruda, Poem, Prince Ea, Priscilla Celina Suárez, Sabrina Benaim, Sakila and Hawa, Saul Williams, Shane Koyczan, Suli Breaks, Tato Laviera, The 126ers, Tim Minchin, Tracy K. Smith, Warsan Shire -
Poetry Break
I purchased my copy of The Poems of Pablo Neruda in college. Since then, I picked it up every once in a while. Thumb through its pages. And read where my finger lands. It’s not always an English translation, but that’s not far away if I need or want to read it. And in my Continue reading
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The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Once I gave a girl a copy of Pablo Neruda’s love poems. Call me the pretentious Latinx college student wanting to impress the girl.* Truth is, I never read the book. Never read anything by Neruda until a few years later when I purchased a copy of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda on a whim. Continue reading
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Poetry break
“Shyness” I scarcely knew, by myself, that I existed, that I’d be able to be, and go on being. I was afraid of that, of life itself. I didn’t want to be seen, I didn’t want my existence to be known. I became pallid, thin, and absentminded. I didn’t want to speak so that nobody Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 