Alice Pero

Alice Pero is an artist of many talents whose poetry has been published or is forthcoming in many magazines and anthologies, including North Dakota Quarterly, Xavier Review, GW Review, Main Street Rag, Bayou, Oregon East, Sanskrit, Fox Cry Review, The Pikeville Review, Studio One, Sulphur River Literary Review, Word Thursday, Très diverse-city, Albatross, Lummox, Carquinez Poetry Review, Bayou and The California Quarterly.  She has won two poetry prizes from the National League of American Pen Women and an award from the California State Poetry Society.  Ms. Pero is also an accomplished flutist and teacher of creative writing and formerly, a dancer.  Alice can be contacted at:
pero@earthlink.net

"The romance of discovery, the radiant brilliance, the surprise and laughter are all here in Alice Pero's deeply intelligent insights into the edge of things."
~ The Book Reader, American's Most Independent Review of Books

I fall into the canyon
of your eyes
You light me up


Sun invites lilac to dance
She stretches her arms