Lorna Dee Cervantes - September 15, 2022

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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Lorna Dee Cervantes reads from her unpublished manuscript titled Fire: Poems Against Pandemic, as well as from her latest published collection, April on Olympia (2021).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.

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Welcome and Introduction
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by Diana Marie Delgado

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"My Grandmother's Native California is Burning"
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From an unpublished manuscript titled Fire: Poems Against Pandemic.

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Uncollected.

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"Fire"
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From an unpublished manuscript titled Fire: Poems Against Pandemic.

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Uncollected.

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"Brass Band"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Cervantes, Lorna Dee. April on Olympia. East Rockaway, New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2021.

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"Evergreen"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Cervantes, Lorna Dee. April on Olympia. East Rockaway, New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2021.

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"Inside An Hour"
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Cervantes, Lorna Dee. April on Olympia. East Rockaway, New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2021.

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"After Julia Alvarez"
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Cervantes, Lorna Dee. April on Olympia. East Rockaway, New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2021.

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"Destination Anywhere"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Cervantes, Lorna Dee. April on Olympia. East Rockaway, New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2021.

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"The Week Ruth Bader Ginsburg Died"
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From an unpublished manuscript titled Fire: Poems Against Pandemic.

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Uncollected.

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Lorna Dee Cervantes
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Paola Valenzuela
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