sometimes there's no difference between indignation and self-promotion.
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community is not a noun; it's a verb.
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haven't we learned anything from chicana poets/ scholars? we can use our intelligence, our creativity to leap over adversity.
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if you don't like what you see going on around you, get up and do something about it. don't just whine and whine.
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i think of community as a mansion with many rooms. find your room. but don't isolate yourself. walk the hallways, knock on other doors, welcome others into your room.
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don't play the victim card again and again.
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if your book didn't get the attention you thought it deserved, then welcome to the club. how many books come out each year? how many get ignored or pushed aside? plenty.
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if people only talk about your tantrums and accusations and not your work, then you are in trouble.
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community is not a noun; it's a verb.
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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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I like this. But I think I'm missing something. I'm guessing there was someone specific you were thinking about when you wrote this.
And PS Does Cyndi L really get her own Barbie? She's such the rockstar.
hear, hear!
You said it twice so I'm not going to feel bad about this -- let's see you use community as a verb in a sentence.
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