Quote of the day
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
Lorna Dee Cervantes

Born: August 6, 1954 (age 71)
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)






