Watch this short video recording of my new poem “McAllen Uncovered” with footage of the streets of McAllen and narrated by myself. Quite unintentionally it came out sounding like Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) in Taxi Driver.
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(Video) Poem: “McAllen Uncovered”
by Gabriel Hugo
Poetry and the City Podcast
Poetry doesn’t live in libraries alone. It’s in the hum of streetlights, the sigh of a bus braking, the Spanish floating across a parking lot. I’m Gabriel Hugo Sanchez Martinez, poet laureate of McAllen.
Poetry doesn’t live in libraries alone. It’s in the hum of streetlights, the sigh of a bus braking, the Spanish floating across a parking lot. I’m Gabriel Hugo Sanchez Martinez, poet laureate of McAllen.Appears in episode
