#HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH NOTABLE PEOPLE HOW TO#

“ Seven Stones” by Marjorie Agosín Today I picked up… “ Proem” by Octavio Paz At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech… “ Unity” by Pablo Neruda There is something dense, united, settled in the depths… “ Love for This Book” by Pablo Neruda In these lonely regions I have been powerful…

“ ” by Federico García Lorca To find a kiss of yours… “ Poets! Towers of God!” by Rubén Darío Poets! Towers of God… “ A Sonnet on Cervantes” by Rubén Darío In all my days of troubled loneliness… “ Like You” by Roque Dalton Like you I / love love… “ Suspend, Singer Swan” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Suspend, singer swan, the sweet strain… “ Love Opened a Mortal Wound” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Love opened a mortal wound… “ You Are Who I Love” by Aracelis Girmay You, selling roses out of a silver grocery cart. “ Let Me Try Again” by Javier Zamora I could bore you with the sunset, the way water tasted … “ Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home” by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal I swim down to. “ What Now?” by Gary Soto Where did the shooting stars go? Sánchez Every day I am born like this-įrom Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith they work their fingers … “ Day of the Refugios” by Alberto Rios I was born in Nogales, Arizona … “ XI” by Ruben Quesada One morning the spirit of my lover’s uncle returned … “ A Few Things Are Explained to Me” by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado It was five o'clock when paper handkerchiefs descended. “ I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At” by José Olivarez i know we exist because of what we make … “ No Longer Ode” by Urayoán Noel A hurricane destroyed your sense of home … “ declaration” by Andrés Montoya i have found … “ Do Not Speak of the Dead” by Cecilia Llompart I was born among the bodies. “ Notes on the Below” by Ada Limón Humongous cavern, tell me, wet limestone … “ Borderbus” by Juan Felipe Herrera A dónde vamos where are we going … “ Cumbia de Salvación” by Leticia Hernández-Linares Cumbia sabrosa cumbia … “ Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp” by Cindy Williams Gutiérrez Softly, it always began softly … “ Gila” by Rigoberto González It’s no curse … “ a brief meditation on breath” by Yesenia Montilla i have diver's lungs from holding my.

#HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH NOTABLE PEOPLE HOW TO#

“ How to Dismantle a Heart” by Rodney Gomez My mother used to say the heart makes music …

“ Spanish As Experienced by a Native Speaker” by John Olivares Espinoza A George Washington quarter was a cuarta … “ Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World” by Martín Espada Now the bells speak with their tongues of bronze … “ Diaspora Sonnet 25” by Oliver de la Paz The planet pulls our bodies through … “ Driving at Night” by Rio Cortez I think it’s quails lining the road but it's fallen Birchwood. “ Problems with Hurricanes” by Victor Hernández Cruz A campesino looked at the air … Corral A girl asleep beneath a fishing net … “ Freeway 280” by Lorna Dee Cervantes Las casitas near the gray cannery … “ Untitled” by Jesús Castillo Dear Empire, I am confused each time I wake inside you … “ Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels” by Paola Capó-García Poem in which I have wisdom … “ Como Tú / Like You / Like Me” by Richard Blanco Como tú, I question history's blur in my eyes. “ Flowers from the Volcano” by Claribel Alegría Fourteen volcanoes rise. “ Ode to the Head Nod” by Elizabeth Acevedo the slight angling up of the forehead. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15-and the rich tradition of poetry from Latinx poets year-round-browse this selection of poems, essays, and multimedia features.

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