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Emmett Tenorio Melendez

San Antonio, Texas

Emmet Tenorio Melendez's poetry has been published in Salting The Ocean: 100 Poems By Young Poets (Greenwillow Books, 2000) and in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry."

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