[. . .]
What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day, //
Is ourselves. And that's all we need /
To start. That's everything we require to keep going.
~ Alberto Rios
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Quoted from "A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry" (Copper Canyon Press, 2023)
Alberto Rios, Award-Winning Poet, Short Story Writer, Memoirist, Novelist; Inaugural Poet Laureate of Arizona; Chancellor Emeritus, Academy of American Poets, 2014-2020; Regents' Professor, Arizona State University
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