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Eduardo C. Corral

Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his work has been honored with a Discovery/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He previously served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. In 2011, he won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

To a Jornalero Cleaning Out My Neighbor’s Garage

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Poetry•Captured - Vol. XXIII (2010)

for John Olivares Espinoza You are nothing like my father.                                              And like my father you are nothing.                                Zambo. Castizo. Without draft animals                                the Mexica used the wheel                                                           only as a toy. Please keep off the lawn.                                Green mirrors are asleep beneath the grass.                                In graduate school a landlord asked, Here to pick strawberries?                                “Y me… [Read More]