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Rich Villar

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Born

in Paterson, NJ, The United States

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Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

Member Since

July 2007

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Rich Villar is a writer, editor, activist, and educator originally from Paterson, New Jersey. His poems and essays have appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Thrush Poetry Journal, Union Station, and Radius. He has been quoted on Latino/a literature and culture by HBO, The New York Times, and the Daily News; and he has been featured on NPR’s “Latino USA.”

He served as a founding director, host, and co-curator for Acentos, a grassroots project fostering the Latino/a voice in American letters.

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Rich Villar’s books

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	Comprehending Forever 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocho #15: Mipoesias Magazine Print Companion by Francisco Aragón (Editor), Lisa Alvarado (Goodreads Author), Oscar Bermeo (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PARSE, Vol. 1: Alchemy by Chad Griffin, Elana Bell, Oscar Bermeo (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Achiote Seeds (Spring 2007) by Barbara Jane Reyes (Goodreads Author), Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor, Rich Villar (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Rich Villar (?)

“Psalm For The First Light

Lord,

I have always wanted a woman
to share first light with.

Let her be Puerto Rican, Lord,
with brown eyes and good humor
and lips. O, Lord, let her have lips.

Let her always kiss me
the way shadows kiss dawn.

Let her kiss be the dark streaks
between sunbeams, negative space
that says yes, then no, then yes.

Let her kiss be the thing that separates
wakefulness from dreaming. Let her
kiss like there is no difference.

Lord,

I have always wanted a woman
whose kiss is like the first light.

Lorca, your servant, wrote about this.
Dawn in New York, he called it.

Let her kiss render even Lorca mute,
powerless, a blank page he needs to fill
with bullfights.

Let even first light weep
at its insufficiency.”
― Rich Villar, Comprehending Forever

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“be still, Amor.

God desires passage,
and you are her compass.”
― Rich Villar, Comprehending Forever

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