Fresh off the Press! "Power" is published in DryLand Lit!

I am super happy... and Juan gave me the great news, that the latest edition of DryLand Lit is live, and our poems are in it!

A poem written over the driest summer I can recall... Power, was published in the Fall 2015 edition.
http://drylandlit.org/2015/10/17/power/

I am very thankful to the editors for choosing this piece. It's also so amazing to be published alongside my beloved gentle word shark, Juan Cardenas! His poem of truth telling through immigrant eyes lay down the educational toxicity and belittlement shed on foreign children. Parthenia St Elementary takes us into the uncertain shoes of elementary school.

It is such an honor to be a part of the phenomenal literary richness of LA!

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