Poemo
- Poemo
with a stick I touched the crowthe children had foundunder that treeI was telling him fly far awayfly to the branchand the crow was cawingand he was hugelike the one in Poe's poemand I was touching him with the stickand telling him fly far away fly to the branchlike somebody talking to somethingthat isn't there and he knows it [End Page 26]
Frank Baez was born in 1978 in Santo Domingo. His latest poetry collection, Postales, won the National Poetry Prize Salomé Ureña in 2009 as a manuscript, and was published in Costa Rica and Argentina before appearing in his native Dominican Republic. As editor of the online poetry review Ping Pong, Baez has published scores of poets from Latin America, North America, and Europe. Conversant with the literatures of all three continents, he is an accomplished translator of English and American verse.
