Cecilia Llompart was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. She received her BA from Florida State University and her MFA from the University of Virginia. She doesn’t consider any one place home, preferring to think of herself as a traveling poet that belongs to the world.

Other poems by Cecilia Llompart in Verse Daily:

Books by Cecilia Llompart:

Other poems on the web by Cecilia Llompart:
Three poems
"The Barnacle and the Gray Whale"

Cecilia Llompart's Website.

Cecilia Llompart on Twitter.

About The Wingless:

"The utter originality of these poems makes me bow down. Cecilia Llompart's breathtaking instinct for image and intuitive sense of pacing creates poems which feel like magnetic force fields, whole landscapes of perception. A mind is quieted, changed"
—Naomi Shihab Nye

"In Cecilia Llompart's amazing first collection, The Wingless, whimsy and imagination are rooted deep in mystery and rise up on sure stalks to flower, again and again, into that most desired and various of blossoms-the one the Surrealists called 'the marvelous.'"
—Gregory Orr

"A little smoky and mysterious, Cecilia Llompart’s work is lean but full—maximally minimal. Everything her mind touches seems more mystical, more alive. Her poems convey a gratitude, a joy less stated than implied by currents of appetite and love, romantic love and a great wide love of it all."
—Bob Hicok