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Updates Coming Soon

Posted on August 24, 2020 by fabianamcabral

Hello everyone! This blog was on hiatus for the past three years. Updates are coming (relatively) soon. Thank you very much for visiting!

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National Poetry Month 2017: April 2nd, Maria Hummel

Posted on April 2, 2017 by fabianamcabral

Source: Poetry Foundation Recess By Maria Hummel This is the sound of the bell. It rings, full of brass and the end it brings: once for the children, once for the child who sits alone. His eyes hurt and mild, … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2017: April 1st, Maya Angelou

Posted on April 1, 2017 by fabianamcabral
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2017: A Year of Sustained Reading

Posted on January 22, 2017 by fabianamcabral

I have a magazine page taped to the wall of my room. I’ve had it for about 12 years now, torn from the pages of a Shape magazine. It shows a woman standing on what must be a cold beach, … Continue reading →

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Recent Reads: 7/14/16

Posted on July 14, 2016 by fabianamcabral

Some books I have read recently really rocked my socks, and I think you should check them out: Boy Erased: Garrard Conley’s memoir of his adolescence as a closeted gay teen, raised in a strict Southern Baptist family and forced … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 28th, Warsan Shire

Posted on April 28, 2016 by fabianamcabral

For women who are ‘difficult’ to love By Warsan Shire you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 27th, Aracelis Girmay

Posted on April 27, 2016 by fabianamcabral

Consider the Hands that Write this Letter By Aracelis Girmay after Marina Wilson Consider the hands that write this letter. Left palm pressed flat against paper, as we have done before, over my heart, in peace or reverence to the … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 26th, Jenny Johnson

Posted on April 27, 2016 by fabianamcabral

In the Dream By Jenny Johnson I was alone in a dyke bar we’d traversed before or maybe it was in a way all our dives merging together suddenly as one intergalactic composite, one glitter-spritzed black hole, one cue stick … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 25th, Li-Young Lee

Posted on April 25, 2016 by fabianamcabral

Little Father By Li-Young Lee I buried my father in the sky. Since then, the birds clean and comb him every morning and pull the blanket up to his chin every night. I buried my father underground. Since then, my … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Month 2016: April 24th, Ogden Nash

Posted on April 24, 2016 by fabianamcabral

Old Men By Ogden Nash People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when… People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men … Continue reading →

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