Today's poem is
"Abuelo"
from Gulf Coast
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Today's poem is
"Abuelo"
from Gulf Coast
Cecilia Llompart
was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Florida. Her first collection, The Wingless, was
published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in the spring of 2014. The recipient of two awards
from the Academy of American Poets, Llompart's work has been included in various anthologies and
has appeared in journals such as Gulf Coast, TriQuarter!y, The Caribbean Writer, WomenArts Quarterly
Review, and Clockhouse Review. Most recently, she has served as guest editor for an issue of Matter: A
Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary themed around the subject of displacement and displaced
peoples, and serves as chair of creative writing for The Blue Ridge Summer Institute for Young Artists,
interned for The Paris Poetry Workshop, and founded New Wanderers, a nomadic poetry collective
that sponsors poets on long term travel projects.
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About Gulf Coast:
July 4, 2014: "Eight Buffalo" "An obstinacy of buffalo..."
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Poetry Editors: Lauren Berry, Anna Journey and Kent Shaw
Other poems by Gulf Coast in Verse Daily:
February 19, 2016: "After the Girl" by Amy Woolard
February 18 2016: "Observations from The Base" by Julie Bloemeke
February 17 2016: "The Horses" by Kenneth Hart
February 15 2016: "Abuelo" by Ocean Vuong
December 20, 2015: "Do Birds Sing from Sheer Exuberance" by Paul Jenkins
December 18, 2015: "Pond" by Bianca Lech
September 10, 2014: "Sol in Leo" by Sam Ross
September 9, 2014: "Exodus" by Robert Whitehead
September 8, 2014: "Spontaneous Human Combustion" by Erica Wright
May 10, 2013: "animal, vegetable, mineral" by Marty McConnell
May 9, 2013: "Risk Management Memo: Small Enterprise" by Mary Biddinger
August 23, 2012: "Brown Refrigerator" by Rick Barot
August 18, 2012: "Dumb Girl" by Lissa Cattrone
August 15, 2012: "From 'Elegy in X Parts'" by Matt Rasmussen
August 14, 2012: "Wright Park" by Rick Barot
August 13, 2012: Two poems by Simone Muench
December 21, 2011: "Day for Years of Distress" by Elaine Bleakney
December 20, 2011: "A Dedication to the Rich Is in the Ark" by Robert Ostrom
December 19, 2011: "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone" by Lily Brown
November 7, 2011: "The Space Traveler's Tense" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
December 24, 2010: "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen" by Jack Boettcher
December 23, 2010: "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone
September 2, 2010: "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly
September 1, 2010: "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks
December 10, 2009: "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
December 9, 2009: "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson
December 3, 2009: "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg
May 15, 2009: "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson
May 11, 2009: "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker
May 8, 2009: "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat
November 4, 2008: "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson
November 3, 2008: "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda
November 1, 2008: "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle
October 30, 2008: "Red" by Allan Petterson
October 29, 2008: "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh
June 15, 2008: "The End" by Victoria Chang
June 14, 2008: "Morality" by Susie Meserve
June 10, 2008: "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 10, 2008: "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok
April 18, 2005: "Sonnet" by Karen Volkman
April 4, 2005: "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" by George Looney
March 14, 2005: "The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello
