For this fortieth post in the Poets on Craft series, we have Melinda Palacio and Richard Vargas. Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic …
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how a civilization begins could you run fast enough the first time you heard the pop pop pop so unlike the noise of deer walking on dried leaves or the splash a fish makes leaping into night air for the low flying mosquito did you hide behind tree or big rock all day until hunger …
Richard Vargas edited/published five issues of The Tequila Review, 1978-1980. His first book, McLife, was featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac in February, 2006. A second book, American Jesus, was published by Tia Chucha Press, 2007. His third book, Guernica, revisited, was published April 2014, by Press 53. (Once again, a poem from the book was …
It’s easy to miss the voice, but you do so at your own risk.
…unlike any woman in my life / the thought of you…
i was in the third grade / spending the weekend at my nana’s…
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