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2010 Poetry Collections by Latino/Latina Poets

LETRAS LATINAS BLOG: A year in Poetry: 2010 (in no particular order: *

Call for Contributions: Collection in Memory of Rane Arroyo

Submissions of any genre are invited for an edited collection in memory of poet and playwright Rane Arroyo (1954-2010). His 11 books of poetry, collection of short stories, and numerous plays and performances blazed new trails in Puerto Rican / American literature in their blending of so-called "high" and "low" cultures, their frank reflections on homosexuality, ethnicity, and social class, and

Sweet!

One of my favorite poets Tony Gloeggler recommends Girl on a Bridge for the holidays over at Karen the Small Press Librarian. And I recommend Tony Gloeggler to you too.*

Word

THAT's what's really unacceptable, and I believe that's what MFA students are continuously flogged for, even by other writers, even by fucking FACULTY MEMBERS of MFA programs! Other writers flog the MFA'ers to keep that charge from coming back to them. It's the capitalist culture at large that wants us to think Art is unjustified, or must be justified, and that to spend a few years on Art is

Me too

One thing that was so wonderful about starting to blog back in 2004 was that it felt like being part of a movement, writers taking to keyboards to connect with each other and exchange ideas. Of course, this was before Facebook, before annual conferences became huge and numerous, before our world decidedly changed. But what I miss most about that time is the openness--we were all in this together,

♥ Random Act of Culture #01 Miami

Judging Poetry Contests

Last week a poet-friend of mine said she didn't understand the economic crisis. It was "like way too complicated." But she justified her ignorance on the grounds that she was a poet. So what did it have to do with her? Maybe she's right. But I want to tell this story about the judge of a poetry contest. A true story. It happened a while ago . . . (hat-tip to Jeannine)

Random Act of Culture

Yes, but.

The model for the MFA fiction writer is her program counterpart, the poet. Poets have long been professionally bound to academia; decades before the blanketing of the country with MFA programs requiring professors, the poets took to the grad schools, earning Ph.D.s in English and other literary disciplines to finance their real vocation. Thus came of age the concept of the poet-teacher. The poet

If You Forget Me (Pablo Neruda read by Madonna)