Victor D. López, Author

Este es el cuento más corto de mi colección de cuentos Echoes of the Mind's Eye, traducido e incluido en mi colección de cuentos Libro de Sueños.

My advice for new writers.

This is a brief paper presentation based on one of my articles published this spring in the North East Journal of Legal Studies (Vol. 44, Article 1, 2024) that deals with the problem of unscrupulous notaries public who engage in the unauthorized practice of law and prey upon unsuspecting foreign-born individuals who mistakenly believe U.S. notaries public to be highly trained lawyers who have successfully completed additional training and rigorous exams to become notaries public (or Notarios in Spanish-speaking countries) unlike U.S. notaries public who are not required to be lawyers and have a very limited purpose and power such as verifying the validity of signatures in legal documents. Unlike their foreign counterpart in the vast majority of countries around the world, U.S. notaries public have few if any training or educational requirements beyond being 18 years old with a high school diploma or equivalency, and a clean criminal record.

May we never forget the true purpose of Memorial Day. May God bless our fallen men and women in uniform and their families. May we never forget the debt of honor we owe them all.

This is a reading of Parts 5 and 6 of my longest free-verse poem, Unsung Heroes, about the lives of quiet heroism and self-reliance in overcoming adversity. The first four parts of the poem deal with the lives of my grandparents, and the last two read here of my parents.

As I note in the introduction to the poem:

Although I stand on the shoulders of giants,

I see little farther than the bridge of my none.

The fault is mine.

The shame is mine.

For I am unworthy of you, my beloved dead.

A reading of my original poem Mi Canto in Spanish followed by my English Translation.

Poem

Although poetry represents a minuscule amount of my published writing which is mostly non-fiction, it has been and remains close to the core of who I am as an author. In this podcast I will read samples of my sonnets from my two books of poems, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk (C) 2021 and Of Pain and Ecstasy (C) 2011. I hope you may find at least some of these to your liking. As always, thank you for listening.