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I dropped the queen's
crown. My five-year old hands let it slip and slide from its
satiny stand. Glass and metal on the ground, time to find
another crown. My father saved the moment. With his handy
hands he put the crown together again. I in a long sanity red
dress - what a burden for a child - trembled, step by step, through
the ballroom but delivered the metal and glass object to the strong
hands of a handsome prince that placed it on my cousin's regal head.
Crowned and queen for a night, cousing Mari was beautiful. She
stood, her dream fulfilled. I could now go to sleep and have my
own childlike dream.
--Linda Rodriguez
Guglielmoni, Metropolitan Fantasies |
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Monday November 17,
2003 |
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7:00pm - 9:00pm
Station Bldg. Aud. #3 |
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Collaboration with
Kendra Kopelke & University of Baltimore Creative Writing Program |
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Born in San Juan, Puerto
Rico, Linda Maria Rodriguez Guglielmoni has lived in England,
Washington D.C., Michigan and California. She studied at
Georgetown University, Dijon University, Oxford University and The
University of Michigan where she was awarded a Ph.D. She is a
literary critic, translator and bilingual writer, author of the
book Metropolitan Fantasies (Montreal: CCLEH, 2000) and
editor of the book: Enlaces: Transnacionalidad - El Caribe y su
Dia'spora - Lengua, Literatura y Cultura en los Albores del Siglo XXI
(New York: The Latino Press, 2000), proceedings of the Seventh
International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, a
project she directed and for which she received a National Endowment
for the Humanities. Her work has appeared in Caribbean
Studies/Estudios del Caribe/Etudes des Caraibes, The Mawaheh
International, Moradalsur, El Relicario, The Caribbean Writer,
Thamyris, and Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th
Century. She teaches at the University of Puerto Rico,
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