Monica Rico
Monica Rico is CantoMundo Fellow and Macondista who grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. She is an MFA graduate of the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, winner of a Hopwood Graduate Poetry Award, a 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry finalist, and 2021 winner of the Levis Prize in Poetry, selected by Kaveh Akbar. Monica is Program Manager & Editor-in-Chief for the Bear River Writers’ Conference.
CPC Readings
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Blue Hour Reading Series
with Kush Thompson
Haymarket House
Poetry by Monica Rico
Above the river the great blue heron
is graffiti reflected in the neon lettering
puddled in pools against the muddy edges
I used to walk, years ago in my father’s leather jacket
Even in the city
the cicadas are heavy
with song and I am
too young to call
a bird anything but red.
What do I
name this, when
the sun enters