About Ricardo Pau-Llosa and Birmingham Poetry Review

Today's poem is "The Reef Sermon"

from Birmingham Poetry Review

Ricardo Pau-Llosa's "The Reef Sermon" is included in his ninth collection of poems, Fleeing Actium (Carnegie Mellon U Press, 2023, forthcoming this fall). Part of a nine-sonnet series of imagined "Lost Sermons of the Buddha."
Other poems by Ricardo Pau-Llosa in Verse Daily:
July 25, 2021: "Soon" "A dozen years—one for each tribe..."
January 14, 2019: "Ghost Orchid" "Haunted by the promise of flowers, light pursues..."
June 20, 2017: "Needle" "A lost man might pour his jug..."
December 3, 2015: "Rings" "Distance gels the ghostly into fictions..."
April 7, 2015: "Money" "The day I need pockets, I will refuse..."
July 1, 2014: "Give-Us-This-Day Man" "Every morning breakfast became..."
February 11, 2013: "Bethany Man" "From afar it looks like the bus is stranded..."
July 29, 2011: "Giant Slayer Man" "Rifling brochures..."
January 27, 2007: "Semilla" " As with galaxies, with flowers..."

Books by Ricardo Pau-Llosa:

Other poems on the web by Ricardo Pau-Llosa:
"Car Wash, Key Largo"
Two poems
Two poems
Four poems
"View from My Mother's Last Hospital Room"
"Bishop (of air)"
"Squandered Moons"
"Luxury"
"Monstrance Man"
"Priam"
"Flight to L.A."
"Abacus"
"Husserlian Meditation: Sunday Rain"
Ricardo Pau-Llosa's Website.
About Birmingham Poetry Review:

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July 2, 2022: "After, the rain" by Terry L. Kennedy
July 1, 2022: "Against 'The Dover Bitch'" by Jenny Molberg
June 29, 2022: "Aspen" by Jehanne Dubrow
July 26, 2021: "Late Night Poem" by Hailey Leithauser
July 23, 2021: "Late Night Poem" by A.E. Stallings
September 26, 2019: "Made Bed" by Beth Gylys <
September 25, 2019: "The Unexploded Ordnance Bin" by Rebecca Foust br>September 24, 2019: "Fabric" by Sidney Wade
September 23, 2019: "Kissing Meditation" by Al Maginnes
July 18, 2016: "Poltergeists" by George David Clark
July 12, 2016: "Pastoral" by Rose McLarney
December 4, 2015: "Sidewalks" by Allison Joseph
December 3, 2015: "Rings" by Hailey Leithauser
December 2, 2015: "Lambing" by Luke Hollis
March 7, 2012: "Parties" by Michael Milburn
March 6, 2012: "Kings Highway" by Robert W. Hill
March 24, 2011: "Prairie" by Beth Gylys
March 22, 2011: "Ficus" by Gregory Fraser
July 2, 2006: "Biochemically Speaking, People Are Close Relatives of Soy" by Charles Harper Webb

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