tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112389422024-03-24T16:32:31.891-07:00Lorna Dee CervantesLorna Dee Cervantes opens her pencil into pixels - poetry, peace y Xicanisma
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26516832@N00/197992233/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/58/197992233_2b802e7879.jpg" width="400" height="4" alt="Rainbow Line" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.comBlogger1265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-28038792308872279212012-06-10T10:19:00.001-07:002012-06-10T10:23:45.889-07:00CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems Nominated For Northern California Book Award for Poetry! Lorna Dee Cervantes at Awards Ceremony TODAY!I'll be at the <a href="http://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2012">Northern California Book Awards, 2012</a>, ceremony TODAY at the San Francisco Main Library, Koret Hall, 1-4 pm! My book, <i>CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems</i> has been nominated for an award for Best Book of Poetry! Michael Pollan will be accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award. One of my favorite poets, Jane Hirshfield is also nominated for an award for poetry; I don't expect to win.<br />
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31st Annual Northern California Book Awards
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<span class="deck">Sunday, June 10, 2012</span><br />
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<b>1:00-2:30 pm: Awards Ceremony</b><br />
readings & remarks by this year's award-winning authors <br />
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<b>2:30-4:00 pm: Book Signing & Reception</b><br />
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<b>San Francisco Main Library</b><br />
Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin, Civic Center, San Francisco<br />
Reception follows in the Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room <br />
Nominated books on sale by Readers Bookstore at the Main <br />
Fred Cody Award presented by Jonah Raskin<br />
Event emcee Sedge Thomson, "West Coast Live"<br />
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The Northern California Book Awards are presented by Northern California Book Reviewers, <i>Poetry Flash</i>,
Center for the Art of Translation, Red Room (redroom.com), PEN West,
Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco Public Library, Friends of the San
Francisco Public Library, and Readers Bookstore at the Main.<br />
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For more information: Poetryflash.org, 510.525.5476, NCBR@poetryflash.org<br />
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<span class="first">FRED CODY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT<br />
in COMMUNITY & LITERATURE</span><br />
Michael Pollan, author, journalist, food activist & cultural critic <br />
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<span class="first">NCBR RECOGNITION AWARD</span><br />
<i>Everything Is Its Own Reward</i>, An All Over Coffee Collection, <br />
Paul Madonna, City Lights</div>
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<span class="deck">FICTION</span><br />
<i>Sequoia Gardens</i>, Ernest J. Finney, Southern Methodist University Press<br />
<i>A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion</i>, Ron Hansen, Scribner<br />
<i>Turn of Mind</i>, Alice LaPlante, Atlantic Monthly Press<br />
<i>Lola, California</i>, Edie Meidav, Farrar, Straus and Giroux <br />
<i>We the Animals</i>, Justin Torres, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<br />
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<span class="deck">CREATIVE NONFICTION</span><br />
<i>A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet</i>, Eavan Boland, W. W. Norton<br />
<i>Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife</i>, Philip L. Fradkin, University of California Press<br />
<i>The Left Coast: California on the Edge</i>, Philip L. Fradkin, photos by Alex L. Fradkin, University of California Press <br />
<i>Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions</i>, Sandra M. Gilbert, W.W. Norton<br />
<i>Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest</i>, Mary Jo McConahay, Chicago Review Press<br />
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<span class="deck">GENERAL NONFICTION</span><br />
<i>Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System</i>, Barry Eichengreen, Oxford University Press<br />
<i>To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918</i>, Adam Hochschild, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<br />
<i>The Shah</i>, Abbas Milani, Palgrave Macmillan<br />
<i>Natural History of San Francisco Bay, California Natural History Guides</i>, Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and Kathleen M. Wong, University of California Press<br />
<i>Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942</i>, Ian W. Toll, W. W. Norton<br />
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<span class="deck">POETRY</span><br />
<i>Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems</i>, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Wings Press <br />
<i>Come, Thief</i>, Jane Hirshfield, Alfred A. Knopf<br />
<i>Sugar Zone</i>, Mary Mackey, Marsh Hawk Press <br />
<i>When I Was a Poet</i>, David Meltzer, City Lights <br />
<i>Thread</i>, Michael Palmer, New Directions <br />
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<span class="deck">TRANSLATION</span><br />
<b>Fiction</b><br />
<i>The Twelve Chairs</i>, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, translated by Anne O. Fisher, Northwestern<br />
<i>Tyrant Memory</i>, Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver, New Directions<br />
<b>Poetry</b><br />
<i>After Many Autumns: A Collection of Chinese Buddhist Literature</i>, editors John Gill and Susan Tidwell, translated by John Balcom, Buddha's Light Publishing <br />
<i>The Changing Room</i>, by Zhai Yongming, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter, Zephyr Press <br />
<i>My Naked Brain: Selected Poems of Leopoldo María Panero</i>, translated by Arturo Mantecón, Swan Scythe Press <br />
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<span class="deck">CHILDREN'S LITERATURE</span><br />
<b>Young Adult</b><br />
<i>Instructions for a Broken Heart</i>, Kim Culbertson, Sourcebooks<br />
<i>Why We Broke Up</i>, Daniel Handler, illustrations by Maira Kalman, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers<br />
<i>Clean</i>, Amy Reed, Simon Pulse<br />
<b>Younger Readers</b><br />
<i>Seabird in the Forest</i>, Joan Dunning, Boyd Mills Press <br />
<i>A Dazzling Display of Dogs</i>, Betsy Franco, illustrations by Michael Wertz, Tricycle Press <br />
<i>Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage</i>, Sophie Webb, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
</blockquote>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-2001725870207027272012-06-07T15:11:00.002-07:002012-06-07T17:03:23.619-07:00CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP W/ Lorna Dee Cervantes at MALCS Conference, UCSB, July 18-20!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOw_o8S1HEUsqWZLg9v6OmB8-bjzHETNq74MJa0pv45BHM8UPM508hOPHIZ3oKSmMLRPldQ4EbjCbrXvjY832-xDqfPEgnHzDXfZbI7aGlCeqadSeMMv9OWG296O3uHZzBnSlZHw/s1600/LDC_workshop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOw_o8S1HEUsqWZLg9v6OmB8-bjzHETNq74MJa0pv45BHM8UPM508hOPHIZ3oKSmMLRPldQ4EbjCbrXvjY832-xDqfPEgnHzDXfZbI7aGlCeqadSeMMv9OWG296O3uHZzBnSlZHw/s400/LDC_workshop.jpg" width="400" /></a>
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<b>CFP: MALCS Creative Writing Workshop – ECOPOETICS: The Creative/Critical Response</b><br />
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June 6th, 2012
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
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Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social calls for participation in the Creative Writing Workshop with Lorna Dee Cervantes at the 2012 MALCS Summer Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara, July 18-21, 2012.
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DEADLINE: Postmark June 15, 2012<br />
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WHAT: Creative Writing from inception to publication with former professor and Director of Creative Writing, Lorna Dee Cervantes!<br />
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ECOPOETICS: The Creative/Critical Response is a Xicana creative writing workshop designed to be open to all levels, from no experience to very experienced. Writers of all genres and persuasions are invited to attend as what we will cover may apply to all types of writing. Learn how to go from no poems to a full-length manuscript in two days. Bilingual (Spanish) writers welcome. Please bring copies of one poem or short prose piece for workshopping with the group along with whatever we generate in class. Besides workshopping we may even find time to do a bit of works hopping.
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This intensive workshop will be divided into four distinct phases of the creative/critical process: GENERATION, SELECTION, Re-VISION, and CRITICAL EVALUATION. We will participate in exercises designed to match each phase of the process We should come away with at least 5 new poems and a sense of our own patterns and patterning, a new toolbox of techniques and methods, a new confidence and playfulness, a new sense of our own strengths and weaknesses as writers, and maybe even become acquainted with our own inner critic as well as become accustomed to the sound of our voice as well as our own individual "Voice" as "Scribe." We'll also cover the nuts and bolts of "Po'Biz" such as how to prepare and edit a manuscript for submission, how to find publishers, how to maintain the inspiration (breath) for sustaining a work or book over time. How to perform our work in "Real Time". How and when to detach ourselves from our work and voice. How to criticize another writer's work. How to discover and foster a community of feminist writers — maybe even how to support, start and develop our own publishing resources and performance venues.
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This workshop respects all and expects such from participants. Expect diversity. Expect to learn how to pleasure yourself - so to speak. Expect work.
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This Creative Writing Workshop follows the spirit and mission of MALCS; its expressed purpose is to identify and develop creative writers for publication in Chicana/Latina Studies. Participants bring their work-in-progress and read and comment on the material of the other writers before and during the workshop within the context of Chicana/Latina feminist values: humility, collaboration, community involvement and justice. Attending both two-hour sessions (the first on Weds. July 18, and the second on Friday July 20) is required.
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(Lorna Dee Cervantes will also be available for private manuscript consultation. Send hardcopy of manuscript.)
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One Creative Writing Workshop will be offered this summer:
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1) ECOPOETICS: The Creative/Critical Response, A Creative Writing Workshop, facilitated by
Lorna Dee Cervantes, former editor/publisher of MANGO & RED DIRT, former Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at CU Boulder.
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WHEN: July 18 at 4:00-6:00 p.m. and July 20 at 8:00-10:00 a.m. <br />
Participants may arrive on Tuesday, July 18, but must contact the Site Committee to arrange housing.
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WHY: A rare opportunity to study with an award-winning and critically acclaimed Xicana poet, Lorna Dee Cervantes: publisher (Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alberto Rios, Victor Martinez, Sherman Alexie, Ray Gonzalez, Jose Antonio Burciaga, Luis Omar Salinas, ronnie burk, ...) and professor (Luis Alberto Urrea, Haas Mroue, Alan Gilbert, Simone Muench, Kristin Prevallet, Michael Robbins, Cody Todd, ....) with over 35 years of experience.
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WHO: We encourage applications from writers at all levels, including tenured or mid-career professors.
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HOW MANY: The workshop has space for 12 participants, who must register for the Summer Institute and be current MALCS members.
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FINE PRINT: Acknowledge the labor of others.
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HOW TO APPLY:
ECOPOETICS: The Creative/Critical Response, A Creative Writing Workshop
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DEADLINE: Postmark June 15, 2012.
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WHERE: Postal mail documents to
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Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />
3181 Mission Street, PMB 16<br />
San Francisco, CA 94110
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WHAT TO SEND:
Please submit a cover letter describing your experience as a writer, your contact information, and no more than 10 pages of creative writing, typed and double-spaced. Please identify all work-in-progress or published pieces. (Books welcome!)
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Also send via email.<br />
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EMAIL: Send the same materials in PDF to (LornaDeeCervantes) at (me) to the usual commercial suffix by June 15, 2012.
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To register for the MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social) Summer Institute 2012 "Todos Somos Arizona: Confronting the Attack On Difference" at UC Santa Barbara, July 18-21, go to <a href="http://institute.malcs.org/?p=51">www.malcs.org</a>; early registration by June 15, 2012.Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-76866566123467867062012-05-10T13:53:00.000-07:002012-05-10T13:53:00.619-07:00Where In The World Is Lorna? San Jose Community College TONIGHT 6:30<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Join me TONIGHT, 6:30-8:30 pm. I'll be returning to where it all began: San Jose "City College" where I studied with Rose Higashi, Richard Regua, Mr. Gutierrez & others; where I performed with Teatro Conciente in a drama workshop with Adrian Vargas in Mexico in the summer of '74, where I read my poetry on stage between our 2 actos & was approached by Juan Bruce-Novoa from Yale (RIP), Nicolas Kanellos of Revista Chicano-Riqueña, now Arte Publico Press, publisher of my 2nd book, and an editor from El Excelsior where I saw my first published poem.
I'll be reading from new & old work. I'll have copies of new book, CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems. Find me on Facebook & join the event page. I hope to see you there!
Poetry On!Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-31729587906441275822012-04-16T12:03:00.005-07:002012-04-16T12:29:21.905-07:00Lorna Dee Cervantes, CSU-EB Distinguished Writer Reading TONIGHT, 4/16, Hayward & Pegasus Books, Berkeley, 4/18<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsNh5xZ_K44_bIih3b_XVeGIv-FKMSXYPF-J3_t-Sb8fDmb7qsUF7Xsq6fXhbGTeftwIiAu98T8gz3lTtoXM6SW5YMs14XPcPwFVi_TCykrRtDVBslgLPdlSDVKi4-AfsZbVaNA/s1600/cervantes-flyer.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsNh5xZ_K44_bIih3b_XVeGIv-FKMSXYPF-J3_t-Sb8fDmb7qsUF7Xsq6fXhbGTeftwIiAu98T8gz3lTtoXM6SW5YMs14XPcPwFVi_TCykrRtDVBslgLPdlSDVKi4-AfsZbVaNA/s400/cervantes-flyer.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732077039702178626" /></a><br /><br /><br />I'm looking forward to seeing all you East & South Bay folk & friends TONIGHT, 7pm, at the library at Cal State East Bay, Hayward, where I'll be reading for their Distinguished Writers Series. FREE! Come and say "hello!" <br /><br />I'll also be reading poetry in Berkeley on Wednesday, April 18, 7pm at <a href="http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-monthly-reading-series-12">Pegasus Books</a> for their "Lyrics & Dirges" series . You know I write plenty of both.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg02vlJ5YsS983bLAxja0uKjNT884ieDwoFFJVKW3BkEyP5Y2MgqXYPE1lYCyhLZvV9u-Tj6yw2lr0p2mJ27ehyy2OKN1VmX58gkYbsFvblEroXCql3BU73E0JWofiy-Vm-YDBfXA/s1600/lnd_apr_2012_0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg02vlJ5YsS983bLAxja0uKjNT884ieDwoFFJVKW3BkEyP5Y2MgqXYPE1lYCyhLZvV9u-Tj6yw2lr0p2mJ27ehyy2OKN1VmX58gkYbsFvblEroXCql3BU73E0JWofiy-Vm-YDBfXA/s400/lnd_apr_2012_0.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732081855125457058" /></a><br /><br />I'll be reading from my new book, CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems, and from a brand new book forthcoming from <a href="http://www.wingspress.com">Wings Press</a>, SUEÑO: 30-Something Of The Cruelest; poems I wrote in the month of April for NaPoWriMo, which is right now. So, where's your poem a day?<br /><br />You can now order books from me online via PayPal at my email at mac.com which is my full name run together. I'll post an ad soon. <br /><br />Poetry On! It's National Poetry Month!Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-73179999929950591462012-03-05T10:34:00.005-08:002012-03-05T10:43:07.438-08:00Lorna Dee Cervantes Hosts New Open Mic w/ Jim Powell 3/7<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJa3UVOdKOSd2u8XDLNLcoBB-yRGOTRQohfEQiltNINLBATvtbP-pBcwIERzIRBMRRC00FjI4gP7Dae7LHx2UaXwgOP_07VjHwSQMK4NQthuyGoyYd4mqFNzUdoAQPUQSsNIJZw/s1600/Ciento_Cover.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKJa3UVOdKOSd2u8XDLNLcoBB-yRGOTRQohfEQiltNINLBATvtbP-pBcwIERzIRBMRRC00FjI4gP7Dae7LHx2UaXwgOP_07VjHwSQMK4NQthuyGoyYd4mqFNzUdoAQPUQSsNIJZw/s400/Ciento_Cover.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716485258475695138" /></a><br /><b>Lorna Dee Cervantes to Host New Poetry Open Mic Series, "ALLEY CAT POETS IN THE MISSION" with Jim Powell & Special Surprise Guest, 3/7, 6-8 pm</b><br /><br /><br />Internationally acclaimed Mission poet, Lorna Dee Cervantes hosts new open mic series, "Alley Cat Poets In The Mission" showcasing exceptional poets & their books along with some surprise special guests! This event is the 1st Wednesday of every month. Come and join us with a poem for the seasonal theme.<br /><br />The Alley Cat Poets In The Mission Series begins Wednesday, March 7, 6-8PM, featuring Lorna Dee Cervantes, MacArthur Grant awardee Jim Powell, Special Surprise Guest and maybe YOU/TÚ speaking poems of LA HISTORIA at Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th St. near Balmy Alley, San Francisco. FREE. Hat passed for poets.<br /><br />Scheduled readers to be announced and could include (*confirmed):<br /><br />W, 3/7 - LA HISTORIA: Lorna Dee Cervantes *, Jim Powell * <br /><br />W, 4/4 - LA MUJER: Cherríe Moraga * & Sharon Doubiago *<br /><br />W, 5/2 - EL FLORICANTO (For Alfred Arteaga): Norma Cole & Javier Huerta *<br /><br />W, 6/6 - LA PRIMAVERA: Adrian Arías & Miguel Robles *<br /><br />W, 7/ 4 - LA INDEPENDENCIA: Diana Di Prima & Jack Hirschman (date TBA)<br /><br />W, 8/1 - EL SOL: Francisco Alárcon * & Lucha Corpi *<br /><br />W, 9/5 - EL TRABAJO: Robert Hass & Al Young *<br /><br />W, 10/3 - LA COSECHA: Devorah Major * & Mamacoatl *<br /><br />W, 11/7 - LA MUERTE (Victor Martinez, John Ross & Luis Cervantes ¡presente!): Genny Lim & C. S. Giscombe<br /><br />W, 12/5 - EL FÍN: JuanFelipe Herrera & Leticia Hernández *<br /><br />W, 1/2 - El NUEVO COMIENZO: Naomi Quiñonez * & Alejandro Murguía <br /><br /><br /><br />Open Mic every 1st Wednesday, 6-8 with Lorna Dee Cervantes and featured poets.<br /><br />Alley Cat Books<br />3036 24th St<br />San Francisco, CA 94110<br /><br />Alley Cat Books offers rare, remaindered & used books along with one-of-a-kind recycled hardbound journals. They also carry unique gifts such as t-shirts, clothing and artwork by silkscreen artist Michael Roman whose work was recently featured on "Two Broke Girls" and various other TV shows. If you can't find it at Alley Cat, visit their other great bookstores—Dog-Eared Books (zines!!), Red Hill Books, and Phoenix Books. Make it a good walk day. Buy books and visit murals, then sit down, listen to great poetry, and be heard. <br /><br /><b>BUY BOOKS! BUY BOOKS! MAKE ART! BE SMART! DO HISTORY! BUY BOOKS! BUY BOOKS! ¡CÓMPRALOS LIBROS! BUY BOOKS!</b><br /><br /><br />CONTACT: (415) 824-1021 alleycatbookssf@gmail.com<br /><br />BIO:<br /> <br />Lorna Dee Cervantes is a recipient of the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Writers Award, 2 NEA Fellowship Grants, 2 Pushcart Prizes (another nominated this year) & "Best Book" awards for EMPLUMADA, FROM THE CABLES OF GENOCIDE: POEMS ON LOVE AND HUNGER, DRIVE: THE FIRST QUARTET, CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS, STUNNED INTO BEING: Essays On The Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes, and the forthcoming SUEÑO: 30-SOMETHING OF THE CRUELEST. <br /> <br />A California native (Chicana-Chumash) born in The Mission, Lorna Dee Cervantes was the former Director of Creative Writing at CU-Boulder where she was a Professor of English for 19 years. This year's UC Regents Lecturer at Berkeley, she is home again writing fiction, essays, poetry & screenplays. Visit her on her blog: http://lornadice.blogspot.com.<br /><br /><br />Jim Powell is a MacArthur Fellow, the 2005 Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago, the author of IT WAS FEVER THAT MADE THE WORLD (University of Chicago Press, 1989) and SUBSTRATE (Pantheon, 2009), and the translator of THE POETRY OF SAPPHO (Oxford, 2006) and CATULLAN REVENANTS (Booklyn, 2001), a Berkeley native & lifelong inhabitant of the SF Bay region.Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-13405499059410680042012-01-26T12:24:00.000-08:002012-01-26T15:26:39.722-08:00Lorna Dee Cervantes TONIGHT UC Berkeley Featured Poet, Holloway Poetry Series, 315 Wheeler Hall, 6:30 pm!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBukdizBEEFIXdpB_I0suchR4tm2NBhyphenhyphen5JSg-ki1MKhYa4DIprC9WKJd-grbo4bFzTjcF0wpebhhlEzenX8cNgeT9gCY3JgHhUm8Mbu1I24rd9zvnF1ace744_gCdYy79vGs8ng/s1600/1-26-Holloway_poster.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBukdizBEEFIXdpB_I0suchR4tm2NBhyphenhyphen5JSg-ki1MKhYa4DIprC9WKJd-grbo4bFzTjcF0wpebhhlEzenX8cNgeT9gCY3JgHhUm8Mbu1I24rd9zvnF1ace744_gCdYy79vGs8ng/s400/1-26-Holloway_poster.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702041943168007922" /></a><br /><br />TONIGHT! THURS, Jan 26, 6:30 pm, UC Berkeley Campus, Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room 315. FREE! Lorna Dee Cervantes will be the first Featured Poet for the Holloway Series in Poetry, reading with PhD student poet, Javier O. Huerta. (Look us up on Facebook!) <br /><br />I hope to see you all there! Tell your friends! I'll have copies of my new book, <b>CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS</b> and, if they arrive, copies of the collection of critical essays on my new work, <b>STUNNED INTO BEING: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes</b> which includes recent interviews. I'll be reading mostly new work tonight, including from a forthcoming new book of poems, "30-Something of the Cruelest."<br /><br />My bio doesn't show up too well on this design, so here it is:<br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes is an internationally acclaimed poet. Recipient of numerous awards, honors and fellowships including the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Writers Award, 2 NEA Fellowship Grants, 2 Pushcart Prizes (another nominated this year) & "Best Book" awards for EMPLUMADA ('81), FROM THE CABLES OF GENOCIDE: POEMS ON LOVE AND HUNGER ('91), and the 5-volume DRIVE: THE FIRST QUARTET ('06) which was nominated for a Pulitzer, her new books are CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS ('11), STUNNED INTO BEING: Essays On The Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes ('11), and the forthcoming SOMETHING OF THE CRUELEST. <br /><br />A California native (Chicana-Chumash), born in The Mission, Lorna Dee Cervantes was the former Director of Creative Writing at CU- Boulder where she was a Professor of English for 19 years. This year's UC Regents Lecturer at Berkeley, she is home again in the Bay Area writing fiction, essays, poetry & screenplays. Visit her on her blog: http://lornadice.blogspot.com.Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-553851644214637042011-11-30T13:00:00.000-08:002011-11-30T13:07:51.872-08:00"More Than 100 Facts For The 99%"<span style="font-weight:bold;">More Than 100 Facts For the 99%</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all life forms<br />that have ever existed are now extinct.<br />99% of The Universe is plasma.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all schools<br />have computers. 99% of all Shakespeare's<br />plays have been tapped out by virtual monkeys.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all Santas are jolly,<br />merry and kind-hearted. 99% of all<br />lawyers give the rest a bad name.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all felonies are settled<br />by plea bargaining. 99% of all problems <br />in communication start with misunderstandings.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all marijuana <br />eradicated in the US is feral. 99% of all new <br />online businesses will fail.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all tomato products<br />consumed in the US come from California.<br />99% of all river blindness is in Africa.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all bandwidth <br />on the internet is devoted to child and animal <br />porn. 99% of Believers would take the gold.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all migrant farmworkers<br />are members of an ethnic minority. 99% of all <br />turkeys raised in the US are Broadbreasted White.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all family foundations<br />have assets under $100 million. 99% of all<br />human DNA is exactly alike.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all law under <br />Capitalism has to do with property. 99%<br />of all profit is made by 1% on Wall Street.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all puppies sold come <br />from puppy mills. 99% of all public schools <br />serve lunch from the National Lunch Program.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all calcium in the body<br />is found in the teeth and bones. 99% of all<br />freshwater pearls are grown in China. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all Oregon state prosecutions <br />involving non-violent protesters exercising their rights were <br />against them. 99% of all hazelnuts are grown in Oregon.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all ghost pictures<br />can be explained away. 99% of all maternal <br />deaths occur in developing countries.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all cats deliver <br />their kittens without assistance or complications.<br />99% of all US households have a television.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all TVs sold in the US<br />come with remote controls. 99% of all promotions<br />are created because somebody has stock to sell.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all land animals eaten<br />in the US are factory farmed. 99% of all gas consumed <br />in the US comes from the North American Continent.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all snail species<br />have shells with whorls that coil clockwise.<br />99% of all successful businesses require teamwork.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all businesses lose <br />25%-40% of their profits from mistakes. 99% <br />of all masturbation involves lust and fantasy.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all virtual forces <br />affecting our life is invisible. 99% of all<br />beer cans are made out of aluminum. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all book queries <br />to agents and editors are rejected. 99% of all <br />first books are not good enough to publish.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all mass in the galaxy <br />is taken up by the sun. 99% of all the world's <br />land ice is in Greenland and Antarctica.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all banking organizations<br />have assets in excess of $10 million. 99% of all<br />new jobs since 1990 have been in the service sector.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all the billions <br />of ants on Earth are female. 99% of all <br />US prisoners on Death Row are male.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all water on Earth<br />is ocean water. 99% of all life is invertebrate<br />and 99% of all invertebrates are extinct. <br /><br />"Ninety nine percent of all failures come from <br />people who have a habit of making excuses," <br />declared the inventor of the peanut. 99% of all diets fail. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all things that most<br />of us worry about never actually occur. 99% <br />of all species that have ever existed are extinct.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all living structures<br />are built from just 6 elements. 99% of all living <br />things live within a few thousand feet from the surface. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all newspapers take <br />their own photos. 99% of all reading<br />takes place in the brain and not the eyes.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all interactions between<br />bacteria and host are beneficial. 99% of all<br />"germs" are killed by hand sanitizer. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all electricity generated<br />in the world is lost to resistance as it flows<br />from source to use. 99% of all TVs are unsold.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all personal care products<br />contain 9,350 chemical compounds untested for safety. <br />99% of all abortions are performed prior to 20 weeks.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all great inventions<br />weren't perfect the first time. 99% of all <br />plastic bags in the US are not being reused.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all Americans listen<br />to the radio. 99% of all bottled water sold<br />in the US has only been filtered. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all ingredients in consumer <br />products are inert or inactive, thus protected <br />by trade secret. 99% of all wills are uncontested.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all plants still use <br />3 instead of 4 atoms of carbon for photosynthesis.<br />99% of all farm animals killed are birds and fish.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all people trying<br />out for a role in TV, theater or film will not<br />get the job. 99% of all new businesses fail. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all professional speakers<br />earn less than $1 million their entire career. <br />99% of all capital exists only as processor entries. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all tobacco-related <br />deaths are caused by inhaling tobacco smoke.<br />99% of all cervical cancer is caused by a virus.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all television sets owned<br />are in color. 99% of the people who produce, <br />write and direct for television are white males. <br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all goods produced in <br />the world are trashed within six months. 99% of all <br />US businesses are small and create 75% net new jobs.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all electricity in the world<br />is produced by running a wire through a magnetic <br />field. 99% of all baking is applying heat to starch.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all fires on the planet<br />are lit by humans. 99% of all mothers' milk<br />contains detectable levels of DDT.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all pesticide poisoning<br />deaths are caused by developing countries. 99% <br />of all adverse drug reactions are unreported.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all eligible American<br />Indians registered to fight in WWII. 99% of all<br />privately owned hand guns are never used.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all footwear sold in the US<br />is made by foreigners overseas from foreign goods. <br />99% of all transactions take less than a minute.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all Medicare dollars<br />spent are linked to chronic illness. 99% of all<br />healthcare dollars are spent on illness, not prevention.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all genetics<br />have been mapped. 99% of all wireless<br />calls rely upon fixed fiber optic lines.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all US households<br />purchase milk. 99% of all uranium in the human<br />body will exit through the evacuation of fecal waste.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all pumpkins<br />are sold for decoration. 99% of all<br />people talk to their dog or cat.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all stars will end up<br />as a white dwarf. 99% of all human <br />history is a hunter-gathering way of life.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all connections<br />are now done digitally. 99% of all active <br />genes in the body are not human.<br /><br />Ninety nine percent of all problems<br />can be identified. You are 99% of the <br />problem If you are not 99% of a solution.<br /><br />If ninety nine percent of the whole <br />can be equal to its part, than 99% <br />of us can be equal to any and all. <br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />11/29/11Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-45404602439114057432011-10-26T13:13:00.000-07:002011-10-26T13:15:36.638-07:00Lorna Dee Cervantes Book Launch for CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems in SF 10/27<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdbCo0pBuGEPD276GlyI1Tki63r80-P4qa5YTOFphp_BqpUegk-ZevtqNJMkJM3a6ReAfAGu8MppDp_Vu_eIIu6MSWxFx3ko9PFxPszTWMnamfoxdu2TYma9zhVgH_MNRvY0KzA/s1600/LDCbookreleaseflyer.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdbCo0pBuGEPD276GlyI1Tki63r80-P4qa5YTOFphp_BqpUegk-ZevtqNJMkJM3a6ReAfAGu8MppDp_Vu_eIIu6MSWxFx3ko9PFxPszTWMnamfoxdu2TYma9zhVgH_MNRvY0KzA/s400/LDCbookreleaseflyer.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667896761421863138" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-36963310414009294582011-10-25T13:46:00.000-07:002011-10-25T14:26:00.405-07:00Lorna Dee Cervantes's 1st Book Release Party in 30 Years THURS 10/27 at Kaleidoscope, 3109 24th St., 8 pm!<b>I'm having a BOOK PARTY & You're invited!</b><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ygk1psBWw35UoU-izxG94E03OZc31fq9YQto4IzPO6_rxUPJMu9_Iu_vF4SD62iOptMf-aj2NT9oiIUtWDP1fJCphIQDqBAxNljzGMJFcThpZPhurUsEI6X1BsR1X0V_jBwiXw/s1600/CherrieM_LornaDee_crop.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ygk1psBWw35UoU-izxG94E03OZc31fq9YQto4IzPO6_rxUPJMu9_Iu_vF4SD62iOptMf-aj2NT9oiIUtWDP1fJCphIQDqBAxNljzGMJFcThpZPhurUsEI6X1BsR1X0V_jBwiXw/s400/CherrieM_LornaDee_crop.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667538809313590738" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhWUDUtEdRN3A3nfvX8ZZXLxKGvht3fNRAZpVEhGzufkK2zRaDY7GeA0nbfSqWz5X2OZJ4SSjGGxCoEBeHJ4WYMey1pwrOQ7xXO9CfRCiRabPGuc1aTEBaWI3ryWNNxUImsDR3A/s1600/LDC_signing_SA.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 337px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhWUDUtEdRN3A3nfvX8ZZXLxKGvht3fNRAZpVEhGzufkK2zRaDY7GeA0nbfSqWz5X2OZJ4SSjGGxCoEBeHJ4WYMey1pwrOQ7xXO9CfRCiRabPGuc1aTEBaWI3ryWNNxUImsDR3A/s400/LDC_signing_SA.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667538804834780034" /></a><br /><br /><b>Lorna Dee Cervantes's San Francisco Book Release Party 10/27/2011</b><br /><br /> Thursday, October 27 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm<br /> <br />kaleidoscope<br />3109 24th Street<br />San Francisco, CA<br /> <br />Come hear Lorna read her latest poetry and celebrate the release of her new book on the last thursday night in October!<br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes will be selling, signing and reading from her new book Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems in the intimate performance space at Kaleidoscope in The Mission District of San Francisco. This venue is a close walk east from the 24th Street BART station. Refreshments! Cool people! Music! (Come jam! Piano on site.) <br /><br />Admission is FREE (but donations to support Kaleidoscope are encouraged!)<br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes is an internationally acclaimed poet. Recipient of numerous awards, honors and fellowships including the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Writers Award, 2 NEA Fellowship Grants, 2 Pushcart Prizes & "Best Book" awards for EMPLUMADA ('81), FROM THE CABLES OF GENOCIDE: POEMS ON LOVE AND HUNGER ('91), and the 5-volume DRIVE: THE FIRST QUARTET ('86) which was nominated for a Pulitzer.<br /><br />Lorna Dee has presented hundreds of readings, lectures, performances and workshops in four different countries for over 30 years at most major poetry venues, universities and institutions. She was one 100 major American poets to attend the The Millennium Poetry Event at The White House at the invitation of Hillary and President Clinton. Her work was featured at the Dodge Poetry Festival which included two documentaries, an anthology, FOOLING WITH WORDS, and an interview with Bill Moyers.<br /><br /><br />Her new book, CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS was officially released September 16, 2011 by Wings Press which is also publishing a book of critical essays on her work. If you are unable to attend the reading, you can order a copy from them at http://www.wingspress.com/. <br /><br />Or send $20 to Lorna Dee Cervantes, 3181 Mission Street, PMB 16; San Francisco, CA 94110 and receive a personalized signed copy! Includes shipping and handling.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com//pages/Ciento-100-100-Word-Love-Poems/245482028825205">http://www.facebook.com//pages/Ciento-100-100-Word-Love-Poems/245482028825205</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206502819415089">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=206502819415089</a><br /><br />Help Tweet & Share the event!<br /><br />See you there! PARTY!<br /><br />-----<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQBGPC6HE5DWpr1GpITsKLvqMD4BDEex-6NkWWeu28FcDazzOtaQTPQ18ZQ2qTgvrDapR0X2uEGc6xB3jTU3bz-4ghxMOmtZSd1ELoEf-oGFA1zQRNQui_ebaIPBDwEQB_QA3dQ/s1600/Ciento_Cover.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQBGPC6HE5DWpr1GpITsKLvqMD4BDEex-6NkWWeu28FcDazzOtaQTPQ18ZQ2qTgvrDapR0X2uEGc6xB3jTU3bz-4ghxMOmtZSd1ELoEf-oGFA1zQRNQui_ebaIPBDwEQB_QA3dQ/s400/Ciento_Cover.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667538820448752418" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTUTlv1uThyvju2Gco-GpXw5gmjqncrXuIWu39WBlaCQmkbH-3MUsSuBwPXhcPDIOvaEdi4FPIq7uv-KB-ru-a2SMYrHiZyigzie4FQKw4ievE5VP_mP6ZPd4DRjMFkE93gvrtag/s1600/LDC_Olmec.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 235px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTUTlv1uThyvju2Gco-GpXw5gmjqncrXuIWu39WBlaCQmkbH-3MUsSuBwPXhcPDIOvaEdi4FPIq7uv-KB-ru-a2SMYrHiZyigzie4FQKw4ievE5VP_mP6ZPd4DRjMFkE93gvrtag/s400/LDC_Olmec.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667538823317929682" /></a><br />for present bio:<br />http://www.redroom.com/author/lorna-dee-cervantes<br /><br />http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm/54/Lorna-Dee-Cervantes/<br /><br />http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm/15/DRIVE-The-First-Quartet-%28hardback-edition%29/Lorna-Dee-Cervantes/Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-69997181640478245622011-09-19T18:24:00.000-07:002011-09-19T18:34:57.623-07:00CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems Just Released From Wings Press!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinNY4xLRN0WZkMCShbJUgHyMR2E8YR2WaEkNRIS3NVpLMNGXHE5M-Ek0ZqB0dDF1DorsN9Qn7fDOnumZ-GJh9pK1tXayP-35t_YI2wcobYcTFPieeloJkJD9Zt72PWi_80a818hw/s1600/Ciento_8%253A12%253A11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinNY4xLRN0WZkMCShbJUgHyMR2E8YR2WaEkNRIS3NVpLMNGXHE5M-Ek0ZqB0dDF1DorsN9Qn7fDOnumZ-GJh9pK1tXayP-35t_YI2wcobYcTFPieeloJkJD9Zt72PWi_80a818hw/s400/Ciento_8%253A12%253A11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654247621528811474" /></a><br /><br />Order your copy direct from the publisher, <a href="http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm/119/Ciento-100-100-Word-Love-Poems/Lorna-Dee-Cervantes">Wings Press</a> now!Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-8380870888424646002011-05-22T13:06:00.000-07:002011-05-22T13:10:55.202-07:00"Between The Rapture And The Rose" (poem draft)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Between the Rapture And The Rose</span><br /><br /> <br /><br /> Who can believe<br />between the rapture<br />and the rose? The road<br />winds through the brambles,<br />caramel and sudden, thrushed<br />and carbon, between the tweeting<br />and the caverns, between the ash<br />and the healing waves of rain.<br /><br /> <br />Who can believe? Between<br />the rapture and the rose,<br />between the window and the summer<br />sun, between a child's winnowed<br />smile and the fallen leaves,<br />who can believe in the simple<br />science of you, your turning gyre?<br /><br /> <br />Who does believe<br />threading their way through folly<br />and the falling? It's as easy<br />as the way rainbows slide<br />their magic, the way I am<br />into you, the startled starlings<br />settling home, the flush of bloom,<br />a filling room. Between the rapture<br />and the rose is a garden<br />and a blush.<br /><br /> <br />The softening touch, so much<br />the sibilant rush, a sensuous<br />lush response. Something<br />like belief, like the rapt<br />heavenly way the earth smells:<br />the loam of loving you, the pebbled<br />path of pardon, leafing, like music<br />between the rapture and the rose.<br /><br /> <br /> <br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />5-21-11Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-63311712597563055392011-05-06T16:46:00.000-07:002011-05-06T16:57:12.777-07:00Lorna Dee Cervantes Reading at Stanford Floricanto TONIGHT With Stephen Cervantes, Casa Zapata, 8 pm<span style="font-weight:bold;">Floricanto</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">an evening of poetry, song, and dance</span><br /><br />Featuring <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Lorna Dee Cervantes<br /></span><br /><br />Steve Cervantes<br />Dreamer Monologues<br />Media Luna<br />Mariachi Cardenal<br /><br />Casa Zapata Dining Hall - Stanford University<br /><br />Friday, May 6th, 2011|8:00pm<br /><br />delicious home-made desserts will served<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxhw5uA3InUqi1UsQvHUtbiCaXFvh07HMjKJl9EMwuCkuFnfMh0Cp5qUxgxGc_BU8vE9twyZ1e_uqeBwH8RtTWq71EWDPQDB8P4fi5dvEpX0yf8KTIaL8c4KZvDISUj_UxFmIAA/s1600/floricanto+Flier+monologues.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxhw5uA3InUqi1UsQvHUtbiCaXFvh07HMjKJl9EMwuCkuFnfMh0Cp5qUxgxGc_BU8vE9twyZ1e_uqeBwH8RtTWq71EWDPQDB8P4fi5dvEpX0yf8KTIaL8c4KZvDISUj_UxFmIAA/s400/floricanto+Flier+monologues.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603754892344307426" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-80016010056415235902011-04-10T19:33:00.000-07:002011-04-10T22:00:47.065-07:00"Integrity" (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo, 4/7/11)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Integrity (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo, 4/7/11)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">for E. S.</span><br /><br />Yours is the integrity of flint,<br />of steel, of iron. Yours<br />is the integrity of birds flocking,<br />whales in their loving pods. Yours<br />is the integrity of sand, what moves<br />with the will of you; all your sweet<br />sweat, your simple construction.<br />I love the sudden fill of you, your<br />swell and sway. I love how you do<br />what you say. You slay me<br />with your truth. I love the way<br />we fit together as if I were your<br />seed. I love the far away look<br />in your multicolored eyes, the land<br />and sea of you. I love<br />the way you look at me, that ancient<br />shore. I love how I am more<br />with you, your carbon, the filaments<br />of your fine hair. I love how you hold<br />me together, how fast and vast<br />the ocean of this love in its gentle<br />tide, the integrity of flesh, of salt,<br />of we. <br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />4/9/11<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5kM6Z5zsSLbEYQ-S1kuxRcAZE0P5nrHfxzV4evRD7YMKnjIJ9k18B5ChVr1GjZ2zp2Zd0eSr2BPgPnkp9RX25682H8FipEMQrf5KF_SzvqpMG42ehRHla0p1O_Ilb6PNiPYcCA/s1600/ocean_integrity.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5kM6Z5zsSLbEYQ-S1kuxRcAZE0P5nrHfxzV4evRD7YMKnjIJ9k18B5ChVr1GjZ2zp2Zd0eSr2BPgPnkp9RX25682H8FipEMQrf5KF_SzvqpMG42ehRHla0p1O_Ilb6PNiPYcCA/s400/ocean_integrity.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594149844081751634" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-70795195650495485392011-04-08T10:07:00.000-07:002011-04-08T11:05:51.086-07:00"Radiation" (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Radiation<br /></span><br /><br /><br />Words can stop a meltdown.<br />Splinters of where we live can heal<br />a fissure. The expansion<br />of a sudden mystery, the heart<br />stunned into being. Words of another<br />nation, under bark, transformed.<br /><br />The tree holds, ever after. <br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />4/6/11<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iJb28enpnd7QgSqKdCHuVeXpOMIw1fXHl20vxOAyAny3AwixmJIrf94qcBglHF6J8jYBj1PPxvy-USWu34aZ-yobW-2uNsxnqK3D5ROCv2oed2fkcHi7Lj5CAW31FUMr68N3rA/s1600/images.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iJb28enpnd7QgSqKdCHuVeXpOMIw1fXHl20vxOAyAny3AwixmJIrf94qcBglHF6J8jYBj1PPxvy-USWu34aZ-yobW-2uNsxnqK3D5ROCv2oed2fkcHi7Lj5CAW31FUMr68N3rA/s400/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593275355907875826" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-6160245729401600032011-04-06T11:13:00.000-07:002011-04-06T11:21:29.031-07:00"Strength" (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo, 4/5)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Strength (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo, 4/5/11)</span><br /><br /><br /><br />All I've ever had was strength.<br />I show it in the cracks. I smooth<br />out stone on stone, I sheen with use.<br /><br />All I've ever known was shame<br />and philosophy: <span style="font-style:italic;">Plato's Republic, <br />The Birth of Tragedy, Young Werther's Sorrows...<br /></span><br />I have an affinity with the sea,<br />my sailor's blood, my stance:<br />my wild stallion, the waves<br /><br />I do not enter lightly. I moan<br />and creak, the leather of a slave.<br />I can take the heat; hell, a sudden parting.<br /><br />I do not know. I hold<br />fast, the spirit text: the great<br />death inside us; strong, inside us.<br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />4/5/11<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7rqv2LgbhxuVgZ8yozGHnlQYyLpcDMohkzIL9aC7-es14VWwYtxF1zMvQ2BnaorHyZA8h7nCktLDiYd-LobwXkS-UzIOBI7eOLWmy-JYGZUSWQwVSzoBvD45i5EvUxZHc1fXfw/s1600/Moeraki-Boulders-round1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7rqv2LgbhxuVgZ8yozGHnlQYyLpcDMohkzIL9aC7-es14VWwYtxF1zMvQ2BnaorHyZA8h7nCktLDiYd-LobwXkS-UzIOBI7eOLWmy-JYGZUSWQwVSzoBvD45i5EvUxZHc1fXfw/s400/Moeraki-Boulders-round1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592537093682527602" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-11797849466948600062011-04-06T11:06:00.000-07:002011-04-06T11:12:05.674-07:00NaPoWriMo!! It's National Poetry Writing Month! Join Me In Writing A Poem A Day<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWThi3Ga0EufVvQzW3T3AspkmJnc6-xOZnduC1ptYSn5Zr_SK96dicwKLFiUq7bmeThU37bl10vCXDfLks6cT-x7xV_lBEDyXEgg7NdhG_VQiD7qLAT71FoM3_CbfjOkgC88sF2g/s1600-h/firewk77.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWThi3Ga0EufVvQzW3T3AspkmJnc6-xOZnduC1ptYSn5Zr_SK96dicwKLFiUq7bmeThU37bl10vCXDfLks6cT-x7xV_lBEDyXEgg7NdhG_VQiD7qLAT71FoM3_CbfjOkgC88sF2g/s320/firewk77.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083244570504602034" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiifr-lyK0ozzuAmP-ME1OaqiHIF2t7UqoBYok9vjyBWmhKgvpALxG1l6bCAwsxP6oxB1eB3VdjLB1gXxlBRu5DoYBsEiyu3NJXU4Nlok8AFuGJ9aPD5gcIpylWGa713AdONjYlw/s1600-h/3A.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiifr-lyK0ozzuAmP-ME1OaqiHIF2t7UqoBYok9vjyBWmhKgvpALxG1l6bCAwsxP6oxB1eB3VdjLB1gXxlBRu5DoYBsEiyu3NJXU4Nlok8AFuGJ9aPD5gcIpylWGa713AdONjYlw/s320/3A.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083243720101077362" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">NaPoWriMo - Taking Ten For Poetry In April - Poem A Day</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(Note: I'm reposting this with today's word or writing prompt. I'll post my poem tomorrow. Scroll down for the new word/s, and scroll down for latest posts.)<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span><br /><br />Hey all,<br /><br />I'll be writing a poem a day for April again this year for National Poetry Writing Month and National Poetry Month. This year I'll be posting them here. I'll also be posting daily prompts for you to play along while I post my finished poem the next day. If you have any words or topic suggestions, working titles, etc., go ahead and post them in the comments. Otherwise, I'm just trying to see what comes out, ten lines a day or more.<br /><br />And, as always, stay to play! Try it on your own blog. Sign up on the official <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/">NaPoWriMo site.</a> Sow the seed of your next book. One poem a day keeps the critic away. Or something. Name it. Yea, NaPoWriMo!<br /><br />I've gone to <a href="http://www.oneword.com">One Word</a> in the past and just keep writing for 7 minutes. Hey, 7 minutes out of your day for poetry: who says you have no time to write? I type up whatever I've written in one minute (they have a timer) and post it on their site. This year I plan to catch up on my <a href="http://lornadice.blogspot.com/2009/09/100-word-love-poems-to-strangers-poems.html">100 Love Poems To Strangers</a> project as well. But since you're playing along, I'll also be posting prompts.<br /><br />Here's today's word:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">EGO</span><br /><br />And the word for 4/2 is:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />GALAXY</span><br /><br />And the word for 4/3 is:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />PLANS</span><br /><br />And the word for 4/4 is:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">SUCCESS</span><br /><br />And the word for 4/5 is:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />STRENGTH</span><br /><br />And the word for 4/6 is:<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />RADIATION</span><br /><br />GO!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD3mjEjqhpeUw8J8UTraQaLbZsHkIZpMYiFhNUA2UDjNIB1NYy79Gv-rcpX0rQ_qKPtuEtiEjMCZcRvW6mvLFN2WLc9zRxL3NqXEccMRGENw5Kc9tgy9tfiiw9xX78R1p52HEh5w/s1600-h/12.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD3mjEjqhpeUw8J8UTraQaLbZsHkIZpMYiFhNUA2UDjNIB1NYy79Gv-rcpX0rQ_qKPtuEtiEjMCZcRvW6mvLFN2WLc9zRxL3NqXEccMRGENw5Kc9tgy9tfiiw9xX78R1p52HEh5w/s320/12.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083243720101077378"/></a><br /><br />Lorna DeeLorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-86400541375311039612011-04-04T23:59:00.000-07:002011-04-05T00:03:47.058-07:00ACK!!! Upgrade Remorse!!ACK!! I just clicked the wrong button. I did not want to change my template!! Now my sidebars are messed up and I lost all my links! Help!! I can't seem to get it back to the way it was, especially my list of 100 blogs I follow and their respective "rooms" in my house. My recent post list looks like alphabet macaroni and it's late. Grrrrr....<br /><br />Mercury in retrograde...Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-71990875398752277912011-04-04T23:01:00.000-07:002011-04-04T23:10:02.292-07:00"Success" (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Success (7-Minute Poem for NaPoWriMo)</span><br /><br /><br /><br />There's no success like shadows,<br />like the sun losing the day to moon,<br />like certain holes in a sandy shore,<br />like rivulets of green algae banking<br />on a sunny beach, like basking marmots<br />above the treeline, like pregnancy.<br /><br />We who fall silent at the ebb<br />of night, we who are not afraid<br />to be whole, we who strive to fill<br />an afternoon with teardrops, with joy,<br />with slender needles of medicinal sap,<br />with cure and sow, with litanies,<br /><br />We make success in the way we move,<br />the way we feel about rain, about mud<br />before it turns to brick. We know sadness<br />in the fertile soil, in the cull and curry.<br />We are successful ever after. We are <br />sucking the cesspools dry, a curing peace.<br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />4/4/11<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5xc1iwNlV2dg5kgX8P780fbVeN3Sy42UXr8BqQGXdkhgi9tRYK3sBLhq0JdVf4uxK3RkmOG661mtgjB7sf-XITcB2tOWzVhda1aOZ7P8mtnOvbvKGi5M4r9vS0nRJtWAu3LcbQ/s1600/amazon_soil.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5xc1iwNlV2dg5kgX8P780fbVeN3Sy42UXr8BqQGXdkhgi9tRYK3sBLhq0JdVf4uxK3RkmOG661mtgjB7sf-XITcB2tOWzVhda1aOZ7P8mtnOvbvKGi5M4r9vS0nRJtWAu3LcbQ/s400/amazon_soil.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591977340629999122" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-58926891960859403342011-04-04T22:31:00.000-07:002011-04-04T22:45:54.201-07:00Lorna Dee Answers Questions From A Student at Lorna DiceNow that I'm back and have access again to my blogs, I'll be posting on my other "official" blog where I answer questions from students, teachers, critics, and others: <a href="http://lornadcervantes.blogspot.com">Lorna Dice (Lorna Says)</a>. I just answered some general questions from an English student <a href="http://lornadcervantes.blogspot.com/2011/04/lorna-dee-anwers-questions-from-student.html">here</a>. <br /><br />I'll be posting some that I posted on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/lornadeecervantes">Facebook</a> a while ago on the poems, "Starfish" and "Love of My Flesh, Living Death." Ha, if I can find them. I'll also be catching up on long (LONG) overdue interviews.<br /><br />So if you're here visiting for a school assignment, try me over there on my other blog, and search both blogs for answers to your questions first. See you there!Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-2761514719621581922011-04-04T22:26:00.000-07:002011-04-04T22:30:59.308-07:00Where In The World Is Lorna Dee? April 5-8th, UC Riverside, Loyola Marymount University, 34th Annual Hispanic Women's Conference<span style="font-weight: bold;">Spring Reading Schedule, April 5-8th, Los Angeles</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br /><br />Tuesday, April 5, 2011<br /> 1:30–3 p.m.<br /><br /><br />Location: Arts Building 335<br />University of California, Riverside<br /><br />Category: Reading<br />Description: One of the preeminent voices in Chicana literature and American poetry,<br />Lorna Dee Cervantes is a dynamic poet whose work draws tremendous power<br />from her struggles in the literary and political trenches. Her power is channeled<br />by a keen intellect and careful attention to craft, which allows her to explore the<br />boundaries between language and experience. Joy Harjo says of her poetry,<br />"Lorna Dee Cervantes is a daredevil... We are transfixed as she juggles rage,<br />cruelties, passion. There is no net. Seven generations uphold the trick of survival.No one is alone in this amazing act of love."<br /><br />Cervantes' first book, Emplumada (University of Pittsburgh, 1981), was a<br />recipient of the American Book Award. Her second collection, From the Cables of<br />Genocide:Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Público, 1991) was awarded the<br />Patterson Poetry Prize, the poetry prize of the Institute of Latin American<br />Writers, and the Latino Literature Award. Her most recent work, Drive: The First<br />Quartet, was published in 2006.<br /><br />Sponsored by Chicano Student Programs, the Department of English, The Center for Ideas and Society, the College for Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and MALCS de UCR.<br /><br />For more information contact llasa001@ucr.edu<br /><br />Open to: General Public<br />Admission: Free<br />Sponsor: English Department<br /><br />Contact Information:<br />Lisette Lasater<br />x21456<br />llasa001@ucr.edu<br /><br />___________________________________________________________________<br />Lecture: Lorna Dee Cervantes, Apr. 6<br /><br /><br />Lecture: Lorna Dee Cervantes<br /><br />Date: Wednesday, April 6<br /><br />Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.<br /><br />Description: Lecture<br /><br />Location: Hannon Library, Von der Ahe Family Suite, 3rd floor<br />Loyola Marymount University<br />1 LMU Drive<br />Los Angeles, CA 90045<br /><br />Admission: Admission and parking are free<br /><br />Contact: Dr. Eliza Rodriquez y Gibson<br />Chicana/o Studies<br />erodri37@lmu.edu<br /><br />More about this event:<br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes will read and discuss her book, "The Poetry of Improbability: Art Activism & Beauty." Lorna Dee Cervantes is an internationally acclaimed poet.<br /><br />Refreshments will be served.<br /><br /> <br />________________________________<br />"Poetry Coffee House" with Lorna Dee Cervantes<br /><br />34th Annual National Hispanic Women's Conference<br /><br />Date: Friday, April 8<br /><br />Time: 2 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.<br /><br />Description: Poetry Reading & Workshop<br /><br />Location: Salon 2, 1st Floor<br />Quiet Cannon<br />Montebello, CA<br /><br />Contact: Tatiana Villanueva<br />Event Coordinator, Mexican American Opportunity Foundation<br />tvillanueva@maof.orgLorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-61977767688262712162011-04-04T00:40:00.000-07:002011-04-04T01:14:22.089-07:00"Plans" (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Plans (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo)</span><br /><br /><br /><br />What plans do the dead make?<br />They wile away in their silver linings.<br />They don't speak, even when spoken to.<br />Who would believe they matter?<br />They, who are so sorry and sorrowed. <br /><br />Fortune today, dust tomorrow.<br />How many furtive longings? How much<br />their weight in pennies? Their well-made<br />beds, waiting in the ether. Royalty<br />or poverty, the results are always the same<br /><br />ash. Ash in the ice-tray of forgiveness.<br />Ash in the spiral galaxy of love. Ash in <br />the core drum. Ash falling down. Ash<br />becoming a sea after tsunami. <br />Wet coal in the lump of the heart.<br /><br />What plans after the wake<br />and rush, the sudden hush?<br /><br />Ask. <br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />4/3/11<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRuv7MMLTTIFKkVu_lL8Bl51DtuMuMyiqgP4qianCHihuSOpzW3CNd_f4vvKR0uzxZM375VXNqPLaYU8ksPtRzyFDK0CraBLCNvRx-YOi-5v5TxArgoaK1AHxARG3bCUOucJv9Jg/s1600/Pompeii%252BExhibition.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRuv7MMLTTIFKkVu_lL8Bl51DtuMuMyiqgP4qianCHihuSOpzW3CNd_f4vvKR0uzxZM375VXNqPLaYU8ksPtRzyFDK0CraBLCNvRx-YOi-5v5TxArgoaK1AHxARG3bCUOucJv9Jg/s400/Pompeii%252BExhibition.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591638584373129666" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-17921012469612027892011-04-03T02:06:00.000-07:002011-04-03T02:16:32.213-07:00"Galaxy" (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Galaxy (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo)</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Into your galaxy I fall<br />heartfirst, fear akimbo, <br />over and over the tumbling falls<br />of sensuous rivers inside me.<br /><br />Take me to your forked places<br />where the tongue seeks refuge.<br />Take me into precious highways where <br />the macadam vanishes into layers of distance.<br /><br />Lead me to your past, to your dream<br />sequences, to your black holes<br />of remembrance. I will mark the trail<br />with the breadcrumbs of knowledge.<br /><br />This journey leaves only once. We<br />are the destination. Here in this sparkling<br />sea of sky, your shimmering eyes<br />weave a map of sighs, night whispers.<br /><br />If I could feel you here: the slow swirl <br />of your ticking time, the windy whirl of <br />your breath panting above me, I would <br />be home, landed. I would plant my flag.<br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />4/2/11<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEHNGVxGMkKW8jkFm29oRgikMlM9dLSx6mg35RweLot0cahYpHWo4T7hO4ly_TncHxOU5effVxQXwKKmS14omTsFk3MdnN7wb4g7cnUVYB_biWF2PiuRWdlBNBJjm87fxA8PxjaA/s1600/m51.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEHNGVxGMkKW8jkFm29oRgikMlM9dLSx6mg35RweLot0cahYpHWo4T7hO4ly_TncHxOU5effVxQXwKKmS14omTsFk3MdnN7wb4g7cnUVYB_biWF2PiuRWdlBNBJjm87fxA8PxjaA/s400/m51.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591283300739456178" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-43213506389612552812011-04-02T13:03:00.000-07:002011-04-02T13:11:24.854-07:00"Ego" (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Ego (7-Minute Poem For NaPoWriMo)</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Don't go. Refresh yourself.<br />Be a river through the mesquite<br />forest, a single tree of wind.<br /><br />Don't stop. Rehearse your<br />becoming on a stage of dead leaves.<br />Take the shell. Speak the entire emptiness.<br /><br />Don't fall. Sleep in time's shadow.<br />Be a whale, bask above the tidal<br />wave. Be frothy and wild. Fly up.<br /><br />Don't let go. Hold fast<br />to anger for an instant, love<br />for as many miles as she takes you.<br /><br />Don't live alone. Embrace<br />the wee lives between the boards,<br />the many mice in the mind's larder.<br /><br />Don't laugh alone. Tell!<br />Tell apart the loaves of bread<br />from the fishes. Be vicious to your sadness.<br /><br />Don't remind yourself of others,<br />of lazy ashes in your days, of the way<br />we live: pomegranates, a single rubied seed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAmSIXClHf8EeBiKAIeEnLqCZeyICbHUfVqUIUhCxRebayhgy4v6RVwTdTFE4ngV_7kM8PKiiT_OMhEkbzWKneF_KTL0353HBgrhuvlDegM4Nw3htGmwtcQHRlWxvGf0mQT76T1Q/s1600/pomegranate.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAmSIXClHf8EeBiKAIeEnLqCZeyICbHUfVqUIUhCxRebayhgy4v6RVwTdTFE4ngV_7kM8PKiiT_OMhEkbzWKneF_KTL0353HBgrhuvlDegM4Nw3htGmwtcQHRlWxvGf0mQT76T1Q/s400/pomegranate.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5591081238746245458" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Lorna Dee Cervantes<br />4/1/11Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-36299808758391390582011-04-01T16:07:00.000-07:002011-04-01T16:33:20.689-07:00Big Poetry Giveaway! Get Your Hot Books of Poetry Now! Celebrate National Poetry Month With FREE Books of Poetry!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikm5gkC_H1uReI1dY3VeqTg3P-uUPBv8JOu_r2pw0afhK8UhOX0VMCSrAnf9QodV5eiRPv7NVNm45Z0D8LekKY5lpxdS-6rQeGerwu8NU7dhTpNPisU2wpa0Y9iGnjGStdLwM-lQ/s1600/Big%252BPoetry%252BGiveaway%252B2011.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikm5gkC_H1uReI1dY3VeqTg3P-uUPBv8JOu_r2pw0afhK8UhOX0VMCSrAnf9QodV5eiRPv7NVNm45Z0D8LekKY5lpxdS-6rQeGerwu8NU7dhTpNPisU2wpa0Y9iGnjGStdLwM-lQ/s400/Big%252BPoetry%252BGiveaway%252B2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590762289507389522" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />I'll be participating in this year's <a href="http://ofkells.blogspot.com/2011/03/big-poetry-giveaway-2011.html">BIG POETRY GIVEAWAY</a> thanks to one of my favorite po-bloggers, Kelli Russell Agodon at "Book of Kells" (love that name!)<br /><br />You can win one of my books of poetry along with another book by one of my favorite poets just by commenting below any time in the month of April, National Poetry Month. On May 1st I'll choose someone at random. I'm not yet sure which books. I'm tempted to choose based on who wins. I'll send both books to you absolutely FREE (my current favorite word.) ¡Órale! What do you have to lose but your shelf space?<br /><br />Good way to give me a shout-out, too. I've missed you all as I've been shut-out of my blog for months until yesterday. But some of you know, I've been playing on Facebook all this time. Friend me there, while I still have about 20 friend spaces yet before reaching the limit. You can also "like" my fan page, and join my group, "I Took A Poetry Workshop With Lorna Dee Cervantes!" (Uh, anyone know how to post a "share" button for Facebook and Twitter on this page?)Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11238942.post-63752113981924968902011-04-01T15:16:00.000-07:002011-04-01T15:29:53.160-07:00"Angels And Saints" - Link To My Poem For ronnie burk (April 1, 1955-2003)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRq7P1Bht_A3YsLsZ1Q56ghO-GGL3dZCqLgAT_SuzuIOpfz96yIjhbQlCTH0c8v3wKlBFeRKkqCxsrTp_7zJEA_WD3m4c3Ea1yUCNQaexUqUPlX0cuLIRUf0wN9VoqprcwHEGog/s1600/ronnie.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeRq7P1Bht_A3YsLsZ1Q56ghO-GGL3dZCqLgAT_SuzuIOpfz96yIjhbQlCTH0c8v3wKlBFeRKkqCxsrTp_7zJEA_WD3m4c3Ea1yUCNQaexUqUPlX0cuLIRUf0wN9VoqprcwHEGog/s400/ronnie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590745471369927522" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://lornadice.blogspot.com/2010/03/angels-and-saints-for-ronnie-burk-1955.html">"Angels and Saints", Poem For ronnie burk</a><br /><br />Click the link to read my poem for my friend, Chicano poet & artist, ronne burk, and read about ronnie. (You can also just search my blog for "ronnie burk" to pull up other posts about him. He was a big part of the reason for me starting this blog six years ago: to keep alive the dead. Isn't that the impetus for all poetry? ronnie might add: to keep the planet alive! Gracias, ronnie. You won't be forgotten.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tUzE8ynzN_vLNbeUOo3T3y3STnGNjHMsvz9mxQHyC3MoTSVI_qnALZ0DEsbzHLNABpjY_8hFZZTThqWCEbAdGXfmttUqnO7u4iEmTnlBI4QsQlRofGL_6BsOs7Y1t8Dq3Wf3Yg/s1600/ronnieburk.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tUzE8ynzN_vLNbeUOo3T3y3STnGNjHMsvz9mxQHyC3MoTSVI_qnALZ0DEsbzHLNABpjY_8hFZZTThqWCEbAdGXfmttUqnO7u4iEmTnlBI4QsQlRofGL_6BsOs7Y1t8Dq3Wf3Yg/s400/ronnieburk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590745475715713426" /></a>Lorna Dee Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com0