Maria Luisa Arroyo

Destierro Means More Than Exile Maria Luisa Arroyo

A tribute to 32 women poets, this chapbook of poems, Destierro Means More than Exile, invites readers to read these poems twice. During your first time, read them out loud in the music of your voice. The second time, with pen or highlighter in hand, circle the names of any women poets, whom you have read - or not read and any words or lines that resonate with you. Understand that the poems by these women poets serve both as guides and as lightning rods for the multilingual poet María Luisa Arroyo as she generated new poems in their names. For what purpose? Particularly during these trying times, to underscore the essential work of fostering community among poets, to encourage all readers to [re]visit collections of poems by these poets or by their own 32 sources of inspiration.