Día de los Muertos #5
abuelita how hard it must have been not to be able to communicate with me in my language, and my refusal to learn yours how could i hear...
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Richard Vargas
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Día de los Muertos #4
baby brother's blues he was just a kid who loved to tease our sisters and counted on me to keep the neighborhood bullies at bay but our...
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Richard Vargas
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Día de los Muertos #3
7 days after my sister’s death this morning i peeled and sliced a potato into flat crooked rectangles and uneven triangles heated cooking...
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Richard Vargas
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Día de los Muertos #2
why i feed the birds once i saw my grandmother hold out her hand cupping a small offering of seed to one of the wild sparrows that...
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Richard Vargas
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Día de los Muertos #1
father’s day poem you bought me a new kite every spring and we would go find a vacant lot or empty field where you taught me the...
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Richard Vargas
- Sep 7, 2022
- 3 min
"we can't pay you, but..."
“we can’t pay you, but you can sell your books and get some great exposure!” #1 I’m so sick of hearing/reading those words. I get it. If...
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Richard Vargas
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
The Politic of Poetry
Poetry and the arts are effective tools for social change. They keep alive the opposition to the status quo. Poetry documents events for...
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Richard Vargas
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
from Poets on Craft, CulturalWeekly.com
The poem is a living thing. The writing is an intimate interaction of art and the physical body, and it is reflected in my line breaks. I...
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