Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. The central themes in her poems are love, a mother's love, painful personal memories and sorrow and recovery.

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Gabriela Mistral was born in Vicuña, where she attended primary and secondary school. Her father, Juan Gerónimo Godoy Villanueva, abandoned the family when she was three years old. Aged 14, she started to support herself and her mother by working as a teacher's aide. Her mother, Petronila Alcayaga, died in 1929 - Gabriela dedicated the first section of the book Tala (Tree Fall) to her.

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Fun moment: put on a jacket I last wore to a poetry slam. My piece was in a pocket. Hadn't looked at it since. It still works for me though.
DavySunshine (Dave S) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:57:35 -0000
Fun moment: put on a jacket I last wore to a poetry slam. My piece was in a pocket. Hadn't looked at it since. It still works for me though.
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So I had to write a poem in poetry, an ODE to be exact & I wrote it about my HK necklace. Lame right? It was a last minute sorta thing.
nicoleeMF (Nicole Franz) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:52:44 -0000
So I had to write a poem in poetry, an ODE to be exact & I wrote it about my HK necklace. Lame right? It was a last minute sorta thing.
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RT @Alismcg #haiku: inky black the sky / might stars and moon too shiver /all have their hoods up #poetry #micropoetry (revis'd)

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