By the time of my INS interview, I was an English Literature major at the University of Houston. So I felt ready to pass any exam on or about the English language. And I got this sentence? I wanted to tell the INS agent that I could do things with the English language that she had never seen or even dreamed of. Instead I settled for showing her that the line scans as iambic pentameter.
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Today I’m going to the grocery store.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
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Love this story. Javier, did you get in touch with La Lorna? BTW I don't have your email domicilio...
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