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Emma Trelles is the author of Tropicalia, winner of the 2010 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press, February 2011). She is also the author of the chapbook Little Spells (GOSS183, 2008) and the editor of OCHO: The Travel Issue and MiPOesias Magazine's American Cuban Issue. She has been a featured author at the Palabra Pura reading series at the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago and at the Miami Book Fair International. Her work has appeared in the Best of the Net, Poets and Artists, Verse Daily, The Rumpus, Gulf Stream, 3 AM Magazine, Newsday, the Miami Herald, and Organica. A contributor to the Letras Latinas and Best American Poetry blogs, she is also an arts writer and teaches writing and literature in South Florida.


Gratitude is Another Word for Joy: A review of Tropicalia by Khadijah Queen
" “The beginning should eat the eyes,” opens “How to Write a Poem: Theory #62,” though Tropicalia does anything but. It gives us instead an ultrasensitive pair of eyes in addition to our own—as acutely attuned to color and texture and passion as a painter’s. Trelles writes with a sensibility part emotional and part anthr... read more »
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Mia Hi Emma. Thanks for being a friend.

Mia


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Emma Same here!


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