Virgil Suárez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962. At the age of twelve he arrived in the United States. He received an MFA from Louisiana State University in 1987. He is the author of 11 collections of poetry, most recently Amerikan Chernobyl. His work has appeared in a multitude of magazines and journals internationally. He has been taking photographs on the road for the last three decades. When he is not writing, he is out riding his motorcycle up and down the Blue Highways of the Southeast, photographing disappearing urban and rural landscapes. His 10th volume of poetry, THE PAINTED BUNTING’S LAST MOLT, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the Spring of 2020. Mr. Suárez makes his home in Florida.

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a mixed media poem of some kind. Use art or sound or some other medium combined with your poem.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a glosa set in the distant future.

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