Saturday, November 21, 2009
ArLiJo.com Is Featuring Hemil Garcia Linares & David Lott
ArLiJo.com is currently featuring a short story by Hemil Garcia Linares and poetry by David Lott.
Journalist and writer Hemil Garcia Linares was born in Lima, Peru. He has published articles in Peru’s El Comercio newspaper, as well as in several Hispanic periodicals in the United States. He is editor of Raices Latinas, a bi-monthly magazine in Northern Virginia. His stories have been included in anthologies in the United States, Mexico, and Argentina. He was a finalist at the 2008 Junin Pais International Short Stories Contest in Argentina. Contact him at his webpage, www.hemilgarcia.com, and blog, www.hemilgarcia.blogspot.com.
Carambola
The haiku master Basho
named himself
after the word
for banana tree –
it’s true.
But if he had seen
the starfruit tree
in this Caribbean courtyard
we might know him today
as Carambola.
As every star is a sun in potential
every ripe starfruit
is a sun in miniature
and each carambola tree
a little daytime
constellation.
Copyright (c) 2009 by David Lott.
David G. Lott, an associate editor of Potomac Review, has taught English at Montgomery College for seventeen years. His work has appeared in Light, Aethlon, Washington (D.C.) City Paper, and Opium, and he is currently working on a collection of poems called Gringo in Guayama, about his time living in a small Puerto Rican town.
To read the ArLiJo.com issue, click on the link below:
ArLiJo.com
Journalist and writer Hemil Garcia Linares was born in Lima, Peru. He has published articles in Peru’s El Comercio newspaper, as well as in several Hispanic periodicals in the United States. He is editor of Raices Latinas, a bi-monthly magazine in Northern Virginia. His stories have been included in anthologies in the United States, Mexico, and Argentina. He was a finalist at the 2008 Junin Pais International Short Stories Contest in Argentina. Contact him at his webpage, www.hemilgarcia.com, and blog, www.hemilgarcia.blogspot.com.
Carambola
The haiku master Basho
named himself
after the word
for banana tree –
it’s true.
But if he had seen
the starfruit tree
in this Caribbean courtyard
we might know him today
as Carambola.
As every star is a sun in potential
every ripe starfruit
is a sun in miniature
and each carambola tree
a little daytime
constellation.
Copyright (c) 2009 by David Lott.
David G. Lott, an associate editor of Potomac Review, has taught English at Montgomery College for seventeen years. His work has appeared in Light, Aethlon, Washington (D.C.) City Paper, and Opium, and he is currently working on a collection of poems called Gringo in Guayama, about his time living in a small Puerto Rican town.
To read the ArLiJo.com issue, click on the link below:
ArLiJo.com
