I was born in San Francisco Ca. I've lived in Nicaragua, Guatemala (Central America) , Mexico, Germany, New Jersey, Georgia, Virginia. I Write poetry both in english and spanish. I started writing poetry and prose when I was 9 years old nursing a broken leg. My first major influence was Ruben Dario, and some local nicaraguan poet writers, Ernesto Cardenal, and Pablo Antonio Cuadra. My favorite Poet of all time is Ranier Maria Rilke (Love the "Duino Elegies"); followed by Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens My favorite Poetress is Emily Dickenson, followed by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sharon Olds, and Sylvia Plath.

             

My poems "When you walked into my life" and "I was born to love you"will be featured and published in Summer 2002 in an anthology called "Letters from the Soul" sponsored by International Library of Poetry"

In 2011 Alain Gracio published two book of poems, "Night-Shadows" and "A Lilac Not Painted"

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Night Shadows

A Lilac Not Painted
Novalis wrote, "The seat of the soul is where both the inner and outer world meet". The poems here represented are a continual amalgam of life experiences, and observations. I'm hoping that as I release these poems and share them with you that they will be easy and simple to understand.