Today's poem is
"Border Boy"
from Poetry Northwest
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Today's poem is
"Border Boy"
from Poetry Northwest
Alberto Ríos
's latest collection of poems is Not Go Away Is My Name, preceded by A Small Story about the Sky, The Dangerous Shirt, and The Theater of Night, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. A finalist for the National Book Award and recipient of the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, Ríos has taught at Arizona State University since 1982. He is Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate, a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
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