Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Lorna Dee Cervantes

Born: August 6, 1954 (age 70)
Bio: Lorna Dee Cervantes is an award-winning Chicana, of Mexican and Native American, ancestry. She is a feminist, activist poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years.
Known for:
- Emplumada (1981)
- Drive: The First Quartet (2005)
- From the cables of genocide (1991)
- Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems (2011)
- Sueno (2013)