L. Luis Lopez

L. Luis Lopez is an American poet.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Anthologies 4 References 5 External links

Life

He graduated from Spring Hill College, from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico with an M.A., and from the University of New Mexico with a Ph.D.

He taught high school in Tampa, Florida, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in Grand Junction, Colorado. He taught in the Academic Honors Program at the University of New Mexico and at Mesa State College.^[1]

He lives in Grand Junction, Colorado.^[2]

Awards

• two NEH fellowships, one to study lyric poetry with Dr. Helen Vendler at Harvard, Summer 1983, and a second to study the literature of innocent suffering with Dr. Terrence Tilley (Duke University) at St. Michael's College.

• 2008 American Book Award

Works

• Musings of a Barrio Sack Boy. Farolito Press. 2000. ISBN 9780967984407. 
• A painting of sand: poems from Ghost Ranch. Farolito Press. 2000. ISBN 9780967984414. 
• Each Month I Sing. Farolito Press. 2000. ISBN 9780981833910. 

Anthologies

• Once Upon a Place (Night Owl Books, 2008)
• Charity (Red Rock Press, 2002)
• The Geography of Hope. Conundrum Press. 2000. ISBN 9780965715973. 
• Talking From the Heart (Men's Network Press, 1990)

References

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Renaissance Man In Ghost Ranch", Red Ravine, July 10, 2007

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