Ray González is the author of nine books of poetry, served as Poetry Editor of The Bloomsbury Review for twenty-five years, and founded LUNA, a poetry journal, in 1998. He received a 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature from the Border Regional Library Association. He is Full Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.He has served as Poetry Editor of The Bloomsbury Review for twenty-five years and founded LUNA, a poetry journal, in 1998. He received a 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature from the Border Regional Library Association. He is Full Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
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Town of Frijoles
In the town of frijoles,
men eat their meals without
washing their hands, wanting
to bless their mothers’ food
with soil from the fields.
In the town of frijoles,
boys beat on hollow pots,
the last wiping of their sides
with a piece of tortilla as
holy a moment...