To a Jornalero Cleaning Out My Neighbor’s Garage
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My thanks to the editors of Witness.
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Thanks to John Olivares Espinoza. His poems inspired me to write this one.
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The poems borrows language from Angela de Hoyos and Américo Paredes. Gracias, maestros.
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.
8 comments:
Awesome poem Eduardo! I love it! Hey buena suerte this fin de semana in New York. I know you'll knock their socks off! Stay poetic!
Great poem! Congratulations!
I've said it before, but I'll say it again: the poem is fucking gorgeous. Congrats, Eduardo!
One of my favs! Congrats on appearing at PD.
Woo hoo! Congrats.
Will you be at AWP this year?
Great poem, E!
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Eduardo, wonderful! Mazel tov!
What an amazing poem.
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