About Gemma Gorga and Copper Nickel

Today's poem is "Those Oranges We Ate for Christmas"

from Copper Nickel

Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968, where she is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature. She has published six collections of poetry: Ocellania (Birdology, Barcelona, 1997); El desordre de les mans (The Hands' Disorder, Lleida, 2003); Instruments optics (Optical Instruments, Valencia, 2005); Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, Barcelona, 2006), which won the Premi Miquel de Palol (2006); Diafragma (Diaphragm, Girona, 2012); and Mur (Wall, Barcelona, 2015), which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana. Her seventh collection, Viatge al centre (Vorage to the Center) is forthcoming in 2020.
Sharon Dolin is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Manual for Living (U of Pittsburgh, 2016) and Whirlwind (2012). She has received translation grants from PEN and Institut Ramon Llull for her translation of Gemma Gorga's prose poems Book of Minutes (Oberlin College Press, 2019). Her cinematic memoir Hitchcock Blonde is forthcoming from Terra Nova Press in 2020. She is at work on a Selected Poems of Gemma Gorga. She directs Writing About Art in Barcelona each June.
Books by Gemma Gorga:

Other poems on the web by Gemma Gorga:
Five poems
Four poems
Two poems
"Little Fairy Tale"
Three poems
"The Meal"
[It could be just this...]
"It's Late"
Ten poems
Five poems
Three poems
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Other poems by Copper Nickel in Verse Daily:
November 20, 2019: "December" by David Baker
November 19, 2019: "Childhood" by Daniel Lawless
November 18, 2019: "Dear Jolene," by Natasha Sajé
February 19, 2019: "Storm of the Century" Jill Osier
February 18, 2019: "Poem for the Woods" Catherine Pierce
February 1, 2017: "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017: "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017: "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016: "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016: "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016: "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015: "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015: "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015: "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015: "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015: "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015: "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015: "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015: "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013: "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013: "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013: "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012: "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012: "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012: "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011: "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011: "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010: "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010: "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010: "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010: "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010: "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010: "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009: "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009: "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009: "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009: "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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