Cervantes, Lorna Dee

Lorna Dee Cervantes

March 27, 1991

Photographer

Ila Abernathy

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Lorna Dee Cervantes

September 15, 2022

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Paola Valenzuela

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Readings from this author

September 15, 2022 - Lorna Dee Cervantes

Lorna Dee Cervantes reads from her unpublished manuscript titled Fire: Poems Against Pandemic, as well as from her latest published collection, April on Olympia (2021). In these poems, Cervantes touches upon grief, connectedness with the earth, and climate change. She also pays poetic tribute to a range of figures that include her grandmother, a homeroom teacher from junior high, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the writers Julia Alvarez and Allen Ginsberg.

March 27, 1991 - Lorna Dee Cervantes

Lorna Dee Cervantes reads primarily from Emplumada (1981) and From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (1991). She also reads several poems that would go on to be collected in Drive: The First Quartet (2006).

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