Victor D. López, Author

Este es uno de los poemas que figurarán en mi próximo libro de poesía "Ecos del Alba en Tinieblas". Este soneto trata con una de las emociones más difíciles de soportar para los seres humanos: el arrepentimiento.

This podcast is a reading of Chapter 6 of my new novel, Hire Lernin': An Idealist’s Quest Through the Realm of for-Profit Education. It concerns Dan's eye-opening one-day orientation at the flagship school in Manhattan that raises far more questions for him than it answers but does little to blunt his optimism and self-imposed mission to implement meaningful changes starting immediately as he full...

A reading of my free verse poem from my latest book of poems, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2).

This is a sample free verse poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk collection. 

This is a reading of approximately half of one of the longest short stories in my new book Echoes of the Mind's Eye: 13 Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2021 - Victor D. Lopez. The short story involves among other things a novel theory as to the genesis of The Big Bang and the role played by black holes in the creation and extinction of infinite numbers of universes in the multiverse. It also...

This is Part III of my Unsung Heroes poem about my maternal grandmother

This is a reading from my longest free-verse poem, Unsung Heroes, which deals with the lives of my grandparents and parents. Part I is about my maternal grandfather, Emilio, who died shortly after the end of the Civil War in Spain leaving behind a wife and nine children. 

This is one of the sonnets from my most recent book of poetry, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems, Volume 2.

This is a sonnet from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk book of poetry.

This is a reading of one of the sonnets from my recently released Echoes of Dawn at Dusk collection.

This is my reading of one of the sonnets in my recently released book of poetry, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk. #love #poetryreading #author #authorreading #spokenword #poetry #sonnet

I began my longest free verse poem nearly a decade ago when I published Unsung Heroes, a four-part poem about my grandparents who each lived incredibly difficult and inspiring lives in different ways during and after the Spanish Civil War, in my first book of poetry, Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems. In my recently released second book of poems, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems, Volume...

This is a continuation of my reading three additional complete chapters from my novel, Hire Lernin'.

My first novel involves the bittersweet journey of a young, idealistic, naïve attorney who takes on the role of academic dean at a for-profit business school in New York City in the late 1980s knowing very little about the industry. Unable to accept the way things are, he immediately launches into a personal quest to change lives for the better in an environment where only the bottom-line matters....