Isabel Acevedo
Isabel Acevedo is a nominee for The Pushcart Prize and two-time winner of the Academy of American Poets University Prize. Her poems appear in such magazines as Birdfeast, Puerto Del Sol, Aster(ix), Berkeley Poetry Review, and others.
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Night
The sky is a black eye. I try to sleep, but I was thinking about death and now have heartburn. Today, a man at a cheap gas station approached me and said, Hey, how ya doin? Half his face purple, swollen, deformed. We talked. I left aware of my vanity. Tonight, I guess, I’m thinking […]
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Straddling the Border
Isabel Acevedo on the inspiration behind her poem “Night” in our Fall 2020 Issue. The way I see it, my poem “Night” can be classified as both a love poem and a faith poem. If you liked it, and if you agree, I have a collection to recommend to you