Sandy Benitez is the founder and editor of Flutter Press and Poppy Road Review. She's been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Dzanc's Best of the Web, and Best of the Net. Sandy has authored six poetry chapbooks and has appeared in three anthologies.
She resides in Southern California with her husband and their 2 children.
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► Sandy's Origami micro-chapbook & selected poems are available below. Just click on the titles to activate the poems and to download the PDF micro-chapbook.
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Origami Micro-Chapbook |
Selected Poem(s) |
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Cover Photo:
Lilacs Blooming with Blue Sky
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{mooblock=The Lilac City}
calls us to come home.
After 16 years of enchantment, the street names have blurred, the lilacs have long since faded; their large petals no longer emit the heady fragrance I remember. We left behind all that we adored; our vintage apartment—San Marcos, exquisite South Hill, Riverfront Park’s clock tower, the Flour Mill, the Spokane River, Riverview Thai, pine trees, our petite flower garden, everything precious…gone in the blink of yesterday’s eyes. Wake me up when the lilacs bloom. Our bags have already been packed.
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Sandy Benitez © 2014
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{mooblock=Pacific Northwest, The First Chapter}
Winter of 1989
I arrived in Spokane carrying a duffel bag, a backpack, and diaries of my travels; the heat of Mississippi faded like a lost memory into snow covered sidewalks punctured with footsteps and childhood dreams. A forest of pines welcomed me, beckoning to come and explore; the Pacific Northwest would become my next story and I was in no hurry to finish the first chapter.
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Sandy Benitez © 2014
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