Poetry. These poems hold a sweet ripeness, a vast dark promise: poetry will heal us, heal our world. 'From grief, the music.' We come back to it. 'There's no other way'" -Diane DiPrima.

HOLLY PRADO has been writing and publishing for many years. Her work, which combines the personal and the mythic with evocative intensity, has appeared in more than a hundred publications and a dozen anthologies, both nationally and internationally. Her seventh book, Esperanza: Poems for Orpheus (Cahuenga Press, 1998), has been highly praised, particularly in The Women's Review of Books (Wellesley College) and The Chicago Review. In 1999, she received First Prize in the Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millennium Awards. She teaches both privately and in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC. Her selected poems and prose, These Mirrors Prove It, was published by Cahuenga Press in 2004. She was awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles in 2006.