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Emma Trelles
Emma Trelles is the author of the chapbook Little Spells (GOSS183) and Tropicalia, winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press.
Interests: books, bands, poems, peace, hiking, camping, politics, cats, gardens, movies, and mulling.
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Fear and beauty in July [by Emma Trelles]
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South Florida is the coolest part of the country right now, which is kind of spooky but not so much that I won't take that news as a bizarro blessing. Outside the rain is delicate and softens the world to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 14, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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The Other Latin@: A Q&A with Blas Falconer [by Emma Trelles]
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The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity is an anthology of 20 essays that, according to its co-editor Blas Falconer, aims to counter a narrow perspective of Latino/a writers and honor their diversity. In his own essay, Falconer writes,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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The Secret Joy of Books
"A book ought to be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us."-- Franz Kafka -- etrelles Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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The Tropical Roundup Gift Guide [by Emma Trelles]
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Above: store-bought bow and discount wrapping paper, pieced together with magic tape and love. Yes, I know there's only five days left till Christmas, that by the time this post is completed Hanukkah is already twinkling its arrival, that some... Continue reading
Posted Dec 20, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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The Odyssey Project, Books IV - VI [by Emma Trelles]
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A Fantastic Cave Landscape, with Odysseus and Calypso (1568-1625), by Jan Brueghel the Elder Dear Stacey, I've been slack in my letter writing because of work, which is, at the moment, attending to the sentences of others. I'm sweeping clean... Continue reading
Posted Jul 30, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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The Odyssey Project, Books I - III [by Emma Trelles]
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"Cayuga Lake, Ithaca NY," watercolor by Nari Mistry Dear Stacey, I am in receipt of your letter and will say I was pretty tickled when I saw the first mention of Ithaka in Homer's verse because I knew that you... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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The Tropical Roundup: Highlights from O, Miami [by Emma Trelles]
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1. In February, I met with P. Scott Cunningham and Pete Borrebach for lunch at a noodle house. I couldn't find the place at first because it was lodged in the lobby of a motel on Biscayne Boulevard that, in... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Heredities, by J. Michael Martinez: A Book Review [by Emma Trelles]
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Note: The following review first appeared in Organica magazine's Winter/Spring 2011 issue. It’s not easy to pinpoint exactly what J. Michael Martinez means when he writes " Margin is the whiteness in our silence. I said, Difference is already spread... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Floricanto, AWP book signings, and Dap Gold:The Tropical Roundup [by Emma Trelles]
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Introducing The Tropical Roundup, in which I, at random times, post points of interest that may be thematically or geographically linked. Or, they could be event driven or contain some kind of vital-to-obscure news peg, Said points will most likely... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Make Me Feel, Mighty Real [by Emma Trelles & Didi Menendez]
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Last night I went to see some friends' bands play at Radioactive Records (the one in Fort Lauderdale, not the U.K.). A highlight was Boise Bob, who plays twisted country ditties accompanied by a washboard and a big ole bass... Continue reading
Posted Jan 17, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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The Time Suck: A Bit O' Live, Pre-Globes Blogging [by Emma Trelles]
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6:21 pm - Ryan Seacrest is killing minutes on the red carpet by pretending to be interested in Jennifer Love Hewitt. 6:23 pm - Seconds after her pre, pre-show commentary ends, Giuliana Rancic, the E! channel's chief reporter (for lack... Continue reading
Posted Jan 17, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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"A Poem for the Innocents," by Geoffrey Philp
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A Poem For the Innocents A killing moon peeks through leaves of trumpet trees in full bloom for Lent, their barks crisscrossed by wild strokes of a machete when my son tried to help me weed our garden, overrun with... Continue reading
Posted Jan 15, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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Nic Sebastian's Whale Sound [by Emma Trelles]
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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge on and on, and dive beneath... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2011 at The Best American Poetry
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LeBron James Poetry Contest [by Emma Trelles]
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"He does it better with grace..." : Bill Shakespeare weighs in on LeBron James At first, there was a little hometown poetry contest, sponsored by the Miami Herald and WLRN. Just a bit of wordplay to salute LeBron's arrival to... Continue reading
Posted Oct 21, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Latino Poets Stake their Claim in American Letters [by Emma Trelles]
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There is always a destination, by Miami-based painter John Sanchez. In Handling Destiny, his third book of poems, Adrian Castro examines the Yoruba idea that the course of a life is pre-determined, and only through faith is one able to... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Nights on Planet Earth, by Campbell McGrath
Video by WGBH and David Grubin Productions, filmmaker Leita Luchetti, and student filmmakers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's docUWM media center. Courtesy of the Poetry Foundation. Continue reading
Posted Aug 13, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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OCHO: The Travel Issue [Emma Trelles]
These poems trip through Afghanistan, Tokyo, and Mozambique. These poems journey with turtledoves, trout, the pages of a book and a soldier on leave. Poems that shop, bush walk, slumber in utero, visit with Jesus, King William, Andrew Jackson, and... Continue reading
Posted Jun 16, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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A rose is a rose is a rose [by Emma Trelles]
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Mark's garden, Pompano Beach, circa 2007 Before my love and I decided to live together in a waterside condo, he grew these plush and inky fuchsia roses in the backyard of his duplex apartment. The neighborhood was of the cracked-concrete-and-power... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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AWP: That's a Coda! [by Emma Trelles]
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At the AWP 2010 Conference: view of downtown Denver and the Rockies Wrap-up, reflections, notes, epilogue, snark, comments, cuttings, insights, diary, dispatch, report, briefs, digest, ditties, snips, quips, chicks with inky whips, bullets, index, missives, postcards, texts, tweets, deep thoughts... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Moon and River [by Emma Trelles]
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8:50 a.m., Thursday, somewhere over the South: I’m on a plane to Denver, and the range of clouds below me appears carved and forested, their sides a sheer plummet of pale slate and their tops crowned in bunched leaves. This... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Kouman Sa Ta Ye [by Emma Trelles]
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I started paying more attention to Ezili Freda after last week's earthquake, the one that devastated Haiti and finally summoned the world's eyes, all at once, to this small Caribbean nation. She is one of the Lwa, a pantheon of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 22, 2010 at The Best American Poetry
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Besieged, assailed, and stormed
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Here's an excerpt from a recent live chat transcript between readers, writer Ligaya Mishan, and Paul Muldoon, poet and poetry editor for The New Yorker (and guest editor for BAP 2005): QUESTION: ...Contrary to public opinion, good poetry seems to... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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The Spires of the Gleaming Kiln [by Emma Trelles]
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Because it is Halloween, and because I love all that is dark sparkle and lore, I settled in last night and read one of the Grimm Brothers' bleaker fairy tales - Hansel and Gretel. It's the last chapter of a... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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Lorca is Green [by Emma Trelles]
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Federico Garcia Lorca was a poet with deep set eyes and a hood of thick eyebrows. When pressed together, his lips resembled two curved shells. He was a diminutive man who walked with a limp. His hands were delicate and... Continue reading
Posted Oct 25, 2009 at The Best American Poetry
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i meant "two" !
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