How Far Is Heaven?
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
About Me
- Name: Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Location: Acá, Gaia, United States
"My Gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape." ~Shirley Maclaine/ For Lalo, because I miss your "¡Ajúa!"
Previous Posts
- CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems Nominated For Nort...
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- Lorna Dee Cervantes, CSU-EB Distinguished Writer R...
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- Lorna Dee Cervantes TONIGHT UC Berkeley Featured P...
- "More Than 100 Facts For The 99%"
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"Whether we see it or not, the ending of one Rainbow is always a portal into the other." ~Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Black Banjo Then and Now
- Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Steve Cervantes-Multicultural music
- Precita Eyes Mural Center
- LuÃs Cervantes ~¡PRESENTE!
- Emplumada
- From the Cables of Genocide: Poems On Love and Hunger
- DRIVE_The First Quartet (books) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Deborah Ager gives us 32 Poems & more
- William Allegrezza moves us with text & taste
- Teresa Ballard works In The Early Hours Of Sky
- Jennifer Bredl is Not Ms. Finch's Blog
- Lorna Dee Hangs In The Café Café
- with ChicanoPoet de Papalote, Reyes Cardenas: Alivianate el Coco
- Mackenzie Carignan writes among We Who Love to Be Astonished
- perpetually astonished Ana Castillo does her own chores in the desert
- Eduardo Corral was Asleep Inside An Old Guitar but gave it up to Web del Sol like a Lorca Loca
- Gina Franco's ghosting for Reli(e)able Signs
- Suzanne Frischkorn is viewed from a Lit Window Pane
- Stuart Greenhouse views The World, A Letter
- Anne Haines remains a Land Mammal
- Joy Harjo is
- not Lyn Hejinian's Life
- nor Lee Herrick's who says You Are Here
- nor Rebecca Livingston HomeSchooled By A Cackling Jackal
- Emily Lloyd leaves us Poesy Galore
- Rebecca Loudon might be the Radish King
- Didi Menéndez, la ChinaVieja, no es China ni vieja
- Claudia Milian is "The World's Smartest Woman" en una Hermanastra Lejana
- Ro O'Donnell was Once Adored, Formerly Rosie, & is now r blog
- Roger Pao applies Asian-American Poetry Paower
- Guillermo Juan Parra enacts Venepoetics
- Peter Pereira dwells swell in A Virtual World
- Ernesto Priego inspires us without a hyphenated world
- Manuel Ramos novels in a lawyer's world & detects & demystifies here
- Barbara Jane Reyes, AKA William Blake, loves & lights in many
- Ginger Rivers takes us to it
- Ron Silliman i=s Silliman
- & I would save this other Awfully Serious Girl should she find herself in the gutter: Alison Stine
- David is Stranded with an Elephant Eye
- Eileen Tabios imbibes Chatelaine Poetics
- A. D. Thomas keeps to the Ironic Points of Light
- Jean Vengua is kept in a Night Jar
- Jean Vengua opens in OKIR
- Kramer Wetzel is our Fishing Guide to the Stars in Xenon
- Xispas tells us what it isâÃrale!â& unveils Frida's hidden clothes
- C. Dale Young reminds us that poetry happens while Avoiding the Muse
- Mark Young poeticizes like a Pelican Dreaming
La Jaula
- Anthony Robinson is a Lucky Error
La Sala
- Erin Bertram
- Brian Campbell
- Lyle Dagget
- Gabriel Gudding
- Lisa Jarnot
- Charles Jenson
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Poco a Poco
- David Hernández
- Mark Lamoureux
- Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor
- Tim Yu dares to Tym Pan
- Ryan J. Wilson
On the Coffee Table
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- Mahogany Browne
- Rant From Boulder
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El Campo De Los Pájaros
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- Luis Urrea
- Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- LettersFromKay
- Racism Ain't Over 9/26/05
- Hans Bethe
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- Kramer-my astrologer (no joke, but plenty inside)
- What day is it? Really? Tzolkin (add 1 Leap year day)
- Try the Chaya!
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- Hurricane Poets Check-In
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- Hellicane Poetry Blog
- The Sun Rising - Katrina Relief Anthology
- LA Poet Laureate Speaks With NPR
- Bill Lavendar and Nancy Dixon Out From New Orleans
- Hurricane Katrina as seen by Photographer Vincent LaForet
- Sun Journalists Mark & Joshua Norman are Dancing With Katrina & Rita in Biloxi/Pas Christian, Miss.
- Good Analyses & Writing at Seth Abramson's Surburban Ecstacies
- Donate to ACORN Hurricane Relocation & Recovery
- Dick Gaughan
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- Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Memphis Minnie/Kid Douglas/Elizabeth Douglas
- Lalo Delgado
- The Poems, the Whole Poems, And Nothing But the Poems
- Lorna Dee on Memphis Minnie, Genocide, and Identity Politics
- translations of Rafael Burgos RÃos (México)
- No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed
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- philosophy.com
- Heidegger en Ingles
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- Jimmy Santiago Baca
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- ronnie burk
- Sandra Cisneros
- Luis Omar Salinas
- Marge Piercy (CBC)
- Robert Hass
- Stanley Kunitz (CBC)
- Rose Higashi
- Sylvia Gonzalez, PhD
- Naomi Clark
- Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Sherman Alexie (CBC)
- MacKenzie Carignan
- Chuck Costa
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- Rigoberto Gonzalez (CBC)
- Haas Mroue
- Simone Muench dot Com
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- ronnie burk
- Lalo Delgado
- Ed Dorn
- Ofelia Miramontes
- Pedro Pietri
- Ron Sukenick
Se Duermen
Jetsam and Flotsam
(succumbing to the swing of serendipity)Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple
Mas Alla
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"Just real good food!"
I HATE HURRICANES!
La Musica
La Biblioteca
El Cuerpo
Spirit
El Corazón
Soul
La Voz
La Lengua
La Mente (sic)
Socios
MANGO poets
Gurus
Maestraos
Alumnaos
*CBC-'Coulda Been a Contender.'
Presente
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Where In the World is Lorna?
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OCTOBER 14, 2005 - Washington, DC
DRIVE: The First Quartet debuts at THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS with a performance at 7pm ($10) and a presentation that afternoon for local high school students. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OCTOBER 17, 2005 - Austin, TX7-9 pm at BOOKWOMAN 918 W. 12th Street (for info or to reserve books:Â 512-472-2788) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OCTOBER 18, 2005 - San Antonio, TX7 pm at Trinity University Chapman Graduate Center Auditorium ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOVEMBER 1-2, 2005 - Boulder, COCU-Boulder Memorial Reading for Ofélia Miramontes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOVEMBER 3-6, 2005 - New York, NY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARCH 6-8, 2006 - Austin, TXAssociated Writing Programs Conference
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*(all life subject to change)
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Lorna Dee Cervantes is an internationally acclaimed Chicana poet from San José, California. Her poetry has appeared in nearly 200 anthologies & textbooks including the Norton Anthologies of Modern, American, English, Contemporary & Women's Poetry. The recipient of many honors, awards & literary fellowships, her first book, Emplumada, (Univ. of Pittsburgh, '81) won an American Book Award; her second, From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger, (Arte Público, '91) won the Paterson Prize for Best Book of Poetry (judge-Hayden Carruth) and the Latino Literature Award. She has performed her poetry twice at the Library of Congress, & also presented at the Walker Arts Center, The Dodge Poetry Festival, New York YMCA, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Vassar, Wellesley, and numerous other venues, university & college campuses in the US, Mexico, Spain & Colombia. Awarded a prestigious Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award for her work, she founded & directed "Floricanto Colorado" showcasing Xicano & Xicana literature in Denver & surrounding schools which, among other events, helped to bring about the proclamation of "Abelardo 'Lalo' Delgado Day in Denver." On July 4th, 1976, she founded the influencial small press & Chicano literary journal, MANGO Publications, which was the first to publish Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alberto Rios, Ray Gonzalez, Ronnie Burk, Orlando RamÃrez (co-editor), as well as championed the early work of writers, Gary Soto, José Montoya, José Montalvo, José Antonio Burciaga, & her personal favorite, LuÃs Omar Salinas. The recipient of two NEA Fellowship Grants for poetry, several California & Colorado State grants, & a Pushcart Prize for Best Poem, she was recently a finalist, along with Reg Saner & Mary Crow who holds the position, for Poet Laureate of Colorado. Her heart belongs in San Francisco, the Mission of her birth. She is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado in Boulder where she is finishing sick-leave & beginning a sabbatical to complete her book of literary nonfiction, I Know Why the Quetzals Die: An Education. She is presently confounded by the prospect of peddling her screenplay, "Pigmeat: The Life and Times of Memphis Minnie," a 20-year project, to Oprah (Any leads? Agents don't "do" poets.) Lorna Dee Cervantes's 5 new poetry books are bound into one in DRIVE: The First Quartet (Wings Press, October, 2005) and debuts with a performance in Washington, DC, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Joy Harjo says of her poetry, "Lorna Dee Cervantes is a daredevil.â¦We are transfixed as she juggles rage, cruelties, passion. There is no net. Seven generations uphold the trick of survival. No one is alone in this amazing act of love."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~HAVE POETRY. WILL TRAVEL.
Lorna Dee Cervantes is available for readings, musical performances with brother Steve, lectures, school visits, private manuscript consultations & summer workshops in Mexico, Poetry In Paradise at Taller Ixchel with Tammy Gomez. Write PoetDee at mac dot com.Support
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