Tag Archives: Lydia Cortes

Lydia Cortés reads from Whose Place

11 Aug Filed under Books That Come My Way. No comments.

… Lydia Cortés was a Nuyorican poet before there was a word for it. She and her peers defined and were the definition. Everyone has a mother tongue. Often our mothers teach it to us, what we know of pride and shame, beautiful and ugly, […]

Transition: Poems in the Aftermath

27 May Filed under American Poets. No comments.

… On Sunday, May 7, I went uptown to Hudson Gardens to hear a reading by poets who had contributed to Transition: Poems in the Aftermath, poets’ reactions, writings and thoughts about the November 2016 election, from November 9th to January 20th, the day of […]