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Subject: LATINOS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADIOCITO, MOTHER SNOW, by COLETTE INEZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vamos. Enough
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Snow; Latinos


ARTHUR BRYANT'S, KANSAS CITY, MO- OR, CUBAN POET GORGES HIMSELF...., by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Entropy is the daily topic here, how sauces ooze off plastic trays
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Restaurants; Food & Eating; Kansas City, Missoufri; Latinos


BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: In the school auditorium / the theodore roosevelt statue
Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Latinos; Students


COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos


DIVORCE WORK, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is an energy crisis
Last Line: Distilling thru my eyes, tears for this whole world
Subject(s): Divorce; Hispanic Americans; Law & Lawyers; Unfaithfulness; Latinos; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


FEDERICO'S GHOST, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The story is / that whole families of fruitpickers
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics & Government; Latinos


FROM AN ISLAND YOU CANNOT NAME, by MARTIN ESPADA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty years ago, / your linen-gowned father stood
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos


JORGE THE CHURCH JANITOR FINALLY QUITS, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No one asks / where I am from
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Janitors; Politics & Government; Latinos


LA CONDUCTORA DEL DESEO/CONDUIT, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman, la conductora, at number 51, corner
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Women; Latinos


LA REVOLUCION AT ANTONIO'S MERCADO, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Para la santera, esperanza, who makes me open new boxes of candles so she can pick out the
Last Line: "who left a note addressed to me in spanish -- ""para mi amigo."
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Latinos


LA TUMBA DE BUENAVENTURA ROIG, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buenaventurea roig, / once peasants in the thousands
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics & Government; Latinos


LATIN MUSIC IN NEW YORK, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Made me dance with you
Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica
Subject(s): Cities; Hispanic Americans; Urban Life; Latinos


MANUEL IS QUIET SOMETIMES, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was quiet again, / driving east on 113
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; War; Latinos


THE RIGHT HAND OF A MEXICAN FARMWORKER, SOMERSET COUNTY, MD, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rosary tattoo / betwen thumb
Subject(s): Farm Life; Hispanic Americans; Agriculture; Farmers; Latinos


THE SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: You took your father / from the bronx hospital
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans; Latinos


TIBURON, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: East 116th
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Latinos