Posts Tagged as ‘Puerto Rican Poetry’

November 3, 2007

A Lesson in Puerto Rican Poetry

A few weeks ago I brought Roberto Marquez’s anthology, Puerto Rican Poetry, to my afternoon writing class. All of the students are from Puerto Rico, or their parents are. When I held up heavy, 490  page tome, one student said, “I never knew there was any such thing.”
“Any such thing as what?” I asked. [...]