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How to Read Poetry (Even If You Think It’s Not for You)
A Guide for Curious Readers I hear this more than almost anything else when I talk about my work: “I love the idea of poetry,…
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Why Place Is the First Character You Write
Spanish and English don’t translate each other — they reveal each other. What I can only say en español, and why that matters to me…
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The Courage of the Honest Sentence
I didn’t set out to write a book about Vero Beach. I set out to write poems. Nineteen of them arrived, and when I looked…
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Writing in Two Languages, Living Between Two Worlds
A welcome note from Anna M. Figueroa—writing from Vero Beach and Florida’s Treasure Coast, where attention becomes craft. In this first post, you’ll find what…