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Oscar Bermeo
Goodreads Author
Born
Ecuador
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
July 2007
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/oscarbermeo
QEPD Miguel Algarín
One thing I can tell you is that every Nuyorican Poet I know has an outrageous Miguel Algarín story. Here is mine. I was getting ready to plan for the one year anniversary of Acentos, our Bronx Latinx Poetry Series, and wanted to feature an iconic figure. One night I was hanging out late at […]
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Poets and Artists (O&S) Self-Portrait Issue
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In Your Ear: Selected Writings from Oakland Word
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Ocho #15: Mipoesias Magazine Print Companion
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MiPOesias (October 2010)
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PARSE, Vol. 1: Alchemy
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This Be The Town
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Achiote Seeds (Summer 2007)
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Kearny Street Workshop: Navigating Poetics
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“Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that’s who forms our poetics.”
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If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that’s who forms our poetics.”
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“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”
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“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you
that I don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else,
if not here
in English.”
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am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you
that I don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else,
if not here
in English.”
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“Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps”
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“If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.”
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good to see you on myreads. I know it's been a good organizer for so much reading that I need to catch up on and just to peek in on what folks is readin. Talk to you soon, hon.