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Mayra Lazara Dole
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What do Robert Frost, Maya Angelou and Richard Blanco have in Common?
They're all inaugural poets of a tradition started in the sixties with John F. Kennedy.
And speaking of poetry...
There's no need to speak Spanish to "feel" Afro-Cuban poetry.
Nicolás Guillén was a brilliant journalist who fell passionately in love with Afro-Cuban Son music at an early age (waaay back in the 30's):
http://www.yo... Read more of this blog post »
They're all inaugural poets of a tradition started in the sixties with John F. Kennedy.
And speaking of poetry...
There's no need to speak Spanish to "feel" Afro-Cuban poetry.
Nicolás Guillén was a brilliant journalist who fell passionately in love with Afro-Cuban Son music at an early age (waaay back in the 30's):
http://www.yo... Read more of this blog post »
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Down to the Bone
— published 2008 — 4 editions |
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Birthday in the Barrio/Cumpleanos en el barrio
— published 2004 |
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Drum, Chavi, Drum!/Toca, Chavi, toca!
— published 2003 |
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The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves
by Sarah Moon, James Lecesne, Armistead Maupin — published 2012 — 4 editions |
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Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance
by Rhoda Belleza , Kirsten Miller (Goodreads Author), Mayra Lazara Dole (Goodreads Author) — published 2012 |
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“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy
― Banksy
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
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― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
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― Albert Einstein
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