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Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been.

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I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.

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By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.

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Sometimes it's like that. I go, 'You know what? I'm going to just change scales. I'm going to even change instruments. And I'm going to go into the chromatics of the Spanish language,' and I do. You know, the poem is totally different. It's like a lunar voice versus a day voice, a solar voice.

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The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.

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I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys.

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We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.

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I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people.

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Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.

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If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 27th, 1948

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