AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Join us this Sunday, July 25th from 2-4pm at Avenue 50 Studio for a La Palabra Poetry reading with Mariano Zaro.

Avenue 50 Studio is located at 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042.
(323) 258-1435

Fig Tree (excerpt)

Fever
that you cure
with primitive mud
mud from saliva
saliva from words
words from the earth
from the earth to your tongue
from your tongue to my wound.

We must have been
six years old then
I already needed
the antidote
of your mouth

Mariano Zaro was born in Borja, Spain and has lived in Santa Monica, California since 1994. Mariono attended the University at Zaragoza where he earned a master's degree in Spanish Literature. He has published in Spain's literary magazines El signo del gorrion and Luces y sombros.

His poetry has been included in the antologies Al aire nuevo (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) and New Baroque (Los Angeles, USA). Among his translations are The California Mission poems/Poemas de las Misiones de California by Philomene Long and a collection of poems from Hair Pieces by Alicia Vogi Saenz. His short fiction has appeared in The Louisville Review and The Baltimore Review. His first poetry book Where From/Desde Donde was published by Bay Books, Santa Monica, CA in 1995. Carayan Press, San Francisco, CA published Poems of erosio/Poemas de la erosio and his newest collection of poems, The House of Mae Rim/La Casa de Mae Rim. Currently Mariano is working on a collection of portraits (short stories) entitled Imago Animi.