Victor D. López, Author

Remembering Our Fallen of Memorial Day and Death of a Quiet Soldier

This is my reading of chapter 10 from my novel. The novel itself is available through most bookstores in eBook, paperback and hard cover and now also as an audiobook. Please don't confuse my cold reading here as part of the audiobook which is NOT read by me. If you'd like to sample previews from the actual audiobook version of this novel and other works produced as eBooks, paperbacks, hard-cover,...

This is the latest addition to my longest free-verse poem, Unsung Heroes, that deals with the lives of my grandparents and parents. This episode deals with my father-in-law who passed away three weeks ago and who, like my other beloved personal heroes, was very special to me.

This is my reading of one of the 13 short stories from my Echoes of the Mind's Eye collection (C) 2021, 2024.

From my Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems (C) 2011, 2024

This is the final part of my longest free-verse poem. It details the life of my mom who overcame blindness in childhood during the Spanish Civil War and left school at the age of 11 to illegally work on a full-time basis in a cousin's fish cannery to help provide for her eight brothers and sisters after her dad's death after being persecuted by the fascist forces for his anti-fascist non-v...

This poem is about my dad who passed away in 2018. It was first published in my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk second book of poems in 2020. Like his parents before him, he had a hard life from the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War that saw his father self-exiled leaving behind a wife and four very young children to fend for themselves. Through hard work and self-reliance he overcame adversity in three c...

This is the fourth part of my longest free-verse poem. This part deals with a portrait of my paternal grandmother and her struggle to raise four children during and after the Spanish Civil War after her husband fled to Argentina when warned he was about to be arrested by the fascist forces and woud not return for nearly two decades, after Franco pardoned those who supported the losing side but had...

This is Part III of my longest free verse poem that first appeared in my Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems. This episode relates to my maternal grandmother who was taken back to her native Galicia, Spain, by her husband, my grandfather, from her comfortable home at 10 Perry Street in New York City's Greenwich Village when winds of the coming Spanish Civil War began to blow with gale force....

From my Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems (C) 2011, 2024

This is my reading the first part of my longest blank verse poem first published in my first book of poems, Of Pain and Ecstasy (C) 2011. It deals with the ultimate price paid by my maternal grandfather's non-violent support for the doomed Republic in opposition to the fascist forces in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and the ultimate price he and his family paid in following the dictates o...

This is one of the 13 short stories in my Echoes of the Mind's Eye collection. It involves a young, successful professional in NYC who learns an important life lesson at a friend's birthday party from an uninvited guest.

Poetry reading

This is a reading of some newer poems from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk collection (C) 2020, 2024

Poetry reading

From Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems, Volume 2 (C) 2021

This is a reading of my poem Athena in praise of both the goddess and women.

Poema

Translation of my poem The Subway from my Of Pain and Ecstasy collection (C) 2011, 2024

Dan's Education Begins in Earnest