Lorna Dee Cervantes

Lorna Dee Cervantes is the author of Emplumada, From the Cables of Gencide, Ciento, Drive, and Sueno. Awarded NEA grants, Pushcart Prizes, a Lila Wallace, state arts and best book awards, Cervantes is founder of MANGO Publications (first to publish Sandra Cisneros), and has presented at the Library of Congress, Dodge Poetry Festival, Walker Art Center, and Nuyorican Poets Cafe. She writes in Seattle.

Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
Chicano Poetry

"To be a Chicanao poet is to be dealing with the
politics of identity as irony."

December 21, 2020 By Lorna Dee Cervantes

“Blood”

A Poem by Lorna Cervantes, From The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNEXT

June 17, 2020 By Lorna Dee Cervantes

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