Somerville poet Lloyd Schwartz has taught at Boston State College, Queens College, and Harvard University, and is currently Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He is also the Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix and a regular commentator on NPR’s Fresh Air. I recently read with him at the Arts Armory in Somerville – he sent this poem to the Lyrical.

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RENATO’S DREAM
(from Cairo Traffic, University of Chicago Press)

Such a sweet dream. I dreamed
I was having a conversation
with the great poets—Manuel
Bandeira and Carlos Drummond
de Andrade. “I was born
tired, hungry, and cold,” I said.
And Drummond answered, “I too.”

– Lloyd Schwartz

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