Mari-Carmen Marin

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021

Dream of Despair; Living Is Urgent; On Why a Woman Cheats; No Liberty or Justice for All; A Practical English Lesson for Spanish Speakers

One hour to pack all that I own in five suitcases.

Their leather peels like sun-burned skin to the touch. I am

away from home and yet my clothes, my shoes,

my books, the items I carry for luck, the pictures

of people I love are all at my side...

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021

Living My Dream

...but one poet that had a big influence on me was Tony Hoagland. I had the pleasure of being his student in a three-day workshop he taught in Houston back in 2014 entitled “Five Powers of Poetry.” He introduced me to the existence of a muscle I was not aware of having before: “the muscle of specificity,” which I have been exercising and using in my poetry since then.