Every Boy Should Have a Man: Psalms 116:7-9

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Psalms 116:7-9

7Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

9I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

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Celia Lisset Alvarez holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Miami and teaches writing at St. Thomas University. Her debut collection of poetry, Shapeshifting (Spire Press, 2006), was the recipient of the 2005 Spire Press Poetry Award. A second collection, The Stones (Finishing Line Press, 2006) followed that same year. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including the Iodine Poetry Journal, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Prairie Schooner, and in the recent anthologies Not a Muse (Haven Books, 2009), and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press, 2009). Recently, her poem “Wonder Woman Goes through Menopause” was the winner of the 2008 Here There Poetry Contest. Born in Madrid of Cuban parents en route to the United States, she grew up in Miami, where she lives with her husband, Cuban-American literary scholar and fellow poet Rafael Miguel Montes. On 24 May 2013, Celia interviewed me about Every Boy Should Have a Man (EBSHAM). For a transcript of that interview visit Celia at Writing With Celia: http://writingwithcelia.blogspot.com/ --There are two other ways to get a transcript of the interview. 1) You can back track through my posts. 2) You can scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Preston L. Allen is a recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship and a winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Fiction for his collection of stories Churchboys and Other Sinners. His work has appeared in various literary anthologies and journals including Las Vegas Noir, Miami Noir, The Seattle Review, 1111, Drum Voices, and Black Renaissance Noire. His novels All or Nothing and Jesus Boy have received rave reviews from O, the Oprah Magazine, Library Journal, Feminist Review, and The New York Times.

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