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Oscar Bermeo
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http://www.goodreads.com/oscarbermeo
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| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Ecuador |
| website |
http://www.oscarbermeo.com |
| genre |
Poetry
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| influences |
[a:Martín Espada|3488236|Martín Espada|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg], [a:Willie Perdomo|28255|Willie Perdomo|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1239559454p2/28255.jpg], [a:Jack Agüeros|721497|Jack Agüeros|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1187070565p2/721497.jpg] |
about this author
Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is the author of four poetry chapbooks, most recently To the Break of Dawn.
Recent poems appear in phati'tude, 580 Split, Eleven Eleven and Poets Responding to SB 1070, among others. He has been a featured writer at a variety of institutions including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Kearny Street Workshop, Rikers Island Penitentiary, San Quentin Prison, UC Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill, NYU and many others.
Oscar is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own), CantoMundo, IWL (Intergenerational Writers Lab) and VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation) poetry fellow.
He now makes his home in Oakland with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.
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