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morning poem(s)

Posted on August 3, 2016 by andrea blancas beltran • Leave a comment

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(un)learning is here

Posted on June 25, 2016 by andrea blancas beltran • 3 Comments

last summer, a friend and I wrote to each other on Tumblr. haibun was the form we had in mind. there were no other rules. after some months the writing called for an end. we revisited it again earlier this year before during and after a long breakfast while hiding out in our hotel room … Continue reading →

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Love Poems

Posted on December 17, 2015 by andrea blancas beltran • 1 Comment

Have you read Morgan Parker’s essay “Love Poems are Dead” over at the Harriet the Blog? What, I asked my students, apprentices to contemporary verse, is a love poem in 2015? Parker explores love as privilege. Parker suggests a line from Amiri Baraka’s “Black Art” as an answer: Let there be no love poems written until love can … Continue reading →

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Poetry pairing: Longing

Posted on October 21, 2015 by andrea blancas beltran • Leave a comment

I recently left a city I now long for. This happens when you leave home for a place that you know will be home for just a handful of days as this new place most often promises respite from the burdens of your always-home. In this city, I could feel all the longings of my … Continue reading →

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A Crown for Gumecindo by Laurie Ann Guerrero

Posted on September 23, 2015 by andrea blancas beltran • 1 Comment

I took to Twitter this weekend after reading Laurie Ann Guerrero’s new book A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlán Libre Press). I took my time with it, but I read it all in one sitting. When discussing it with a friend earlier this week, I recounted how this book is a work of art from front to … Continue reading →

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