My Faith in Poetry: Restored

Yes. It was waning, but a recent spate of poems I have come across, leading to a recent splurge on poetry collections by those same authors has reminded me why I love poetry, and I am once again effusive and enthusiastic.

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I love Palabra Pura!

As the Guild Complex and PALABRA PURA enter into a transition year of sorts, this is a good moment, I think, to recall some names: those poets who have graced a Palabra Pura stage. Included in this literary litany are the poets who took part in the "One Poem Festival" last February during the AWP conference, and the poets who read in the Chicago stop of the Wind Shift tour. Consider this, then, a way of expressing our appreciation to these poets who, by definition, have become Palabra Pura alums and, we hope, Palabra Pura ambassadors.