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Sasha Pimentel

Sasha Pimentel
Sasha Pimentel is the author of For Want of Water: And Other Poems, selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series and Insides She Swallowed, winner of the 2011 American Book Award. Born in Manila and raised in the United States and Saudi Arabia, she is an Associate Professor in the bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.


On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

"A Poem’s Virtue is in its Lament Against Powerlessness"
October 20, 2017  By Sasha Pimentel
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