POETIC CONVERSATIONS: An Introductory Blog!
Recently an editor who was publishing my work wrote, “Are you sure? Did this really happen?” in response to an essay about my life. Though the writing did not directly concern disability, the editor found my disabled experiences suspect.
A few years, I went to a John Murillo poetry reading and workshop where his reading of Up Jumps the Boogie stuck to my bones. However, his advice on writers on being laureates remained a soothing, relevant hum:
Poems by John Martínez Gonzalez, translated into English by Arturo Desimone
by Wendy C. Ortiz
Y̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶I̶ ̶a̶w̶o̶k̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶c̶o̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶l̶o̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶m̶y̶…
