The Friday Influence

a poetry blog & online home to the work of José Angel Araguz, Ph.D.

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  • microreview: La Movida by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

    review by José Angel Araguz In my research (read: Googling) as I spent time with La Movida by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta (Nightboat Books) I came across the following lines shared by more than one Tumblr account: There’s a weapon I wishI could wieldwhen I feel the vomit of your gazehit the side of my face.I want…

    José Angel Araguz

    March 17, 2023
    microreviews & interviews, Uncategorized
    creative writing, Jose Angel Araguz, Latinx, literature, microreview, Nicaragua, Nightboat Books, poetry, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, the friday influence, Tumblr, writing
  • microreview: like everything else we loved by sarah a. chavez

    review by José Angel Araguz Early on in like everything else we loved by Sarah A. Chavez, a micro chapbook published by Porkbelly Press, the reader is presented a scene in which the speaker describes a hole where the city has uprooted a tree as follows: Like losing you, the loss of the treewas quick.…

    José Angel Araguz

    February 23, 2023
    microreviews & interviews, Uncategorized
    creative writing, epistle, Jose Angel Araguz, Latina, literature, mestiza, microreview, poetry, Porkbelly Press, Sarah A Chavez, the friday influence, writing
  • dispatch 021023

    Had the opportunity to share one of Paul Hlava Ceballos’ poems at a reading this week. The poem, “Coronary Angiogram,”* is a fascinating prose poem whose turns of phrase move between two different languages of the heart: the medical and the personal. There’s also a nod to history and craft in the second stanza: “At…

    José Angel Araguz

    February 10, 2023
    Uncategorized
    creative writing, Iterant, Jose Angel Araguz, Latine, Latinx, literature, Paul Hlava Ceballos, poetry, Quipu, reading, the friday influence, writing
  • Grolier hybrid reading this Thursday!

    Just a quick post to share that I’ll be doing a hybrid event this week! WHAT: Grolier Poetry Book Shop presents José Angel Araguz & Levi Rubeck (hybrid reading)WHEN: Thursday, February 9th, 2023WHERE: This event will take place synchronously via Zoom and instore at 6 Plympton Street. Registration is required.REGISTRATION (ONLINE): Use this link to…

    José Angel Araguz

    February 6, 2023
    Uncategorized
    Boston, Cambridge, creative writing, Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Jose Angel Araguz, Latinx, Levi Rubeck, literature, poetry, reading, the friday influence, writing
  • microreview: Year of the Murder Hornet by Tina Cane

    review by José Angel Araguz As the pandemic continues being an ongoing, consistent crisis killing 4,000 people a week in this country* — this despite the current administration’s plan to call an end to it as a health emergency — it feels more urgent than ever to honor and bring attention to work that lives…

    José Angel Araguz

    February 1, 2023
    microreviews & interviews, Uncategorized
    creative writing, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, microreview, pandemic, People's CDC, poetry, social media, the friday influence, Tina Cane, Veliz Books, writing, Year of the Murder Hornet
  • dispatch 011223

    Happy new year, y’all! The theme so far for 2023 seems to be difficulty: sometimes intense, sometimes fruitful, but always engaging. Like a poem. With this riff in mind, I’d like to give a shout-out to Sasha Pimental’s “If I Die in Juárez,” a poem that approaches difficult subject matter in an unexpected way. Been…

    José Angel Araguz

    January 13, 2023
    Uncategorized
    creative writing, Jose Angel Araguz, Juárez, literature, music, new year, poetry, reading, Sasha Pimental, the friday influence, violin, writing
  • dispatch 123022

    Whole lotta life keeps happening. It’s the main reason I’ve been quiet here. Like today, my partner has been out with a migraine for the greater part of the day, now evening, and I’ve been in the silence that comes with caregiving. Well, the not-so-silent because my cat, Semilla, is here with me. I’d like…

    José Angel Araguz

    December 31, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Angela María Spring, Black Lawrence Press, creative writing, Electric Literature, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, poetry, Poets & Writers, Rotura, Staci Halt, Sundress Publications, The Los Angeles Review
  • dispatch 112422

    Shared the above on my Instagram account @poetryamano on this the Day of Mourning with a note on taking care of one’s self during this time of the year. Whether it’s toxic family (here or elsewhere) or simply feeling left out of the big societal pressure that comes with national holidays, be kind to yourselves…

    José Angel Araguz

    November 24, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Bernadette Mayer, chapbook, creative writing, instagram, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, Luke Hankins, poetry, poetryamano, Texas Review Press, the friday influence, writing
  • new poems & review

    ¡Hola! Happy to be sharing with y’all some recent publications 🙂 First, I am excited to share that I have two poems featured in the latest issue of Talking Writing. This publication of poems is special to me as it has me in two different modes. The poem “Listening” is more in the usual lyric…

    José Angel Araguz

    July 15, 2022
    Uncategorized
    Black Lawrence Press, creative writing, Dana Delibovi, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, poetry, poetryamano, Rotura, Talking Writing, the friday influence, Witty Partition, writing
  • podcast recs

    Hello again! Working my way back into this space after summer teaching. Had a blast, always do, but I’ve been going through a lot for a long time, as everyone has. Happy to have a little more flexibility around chipping away at the todo list. One of the sources of reprieve has been listening to…

    José Angel Araguz

    July 8, 2022
    community features, Uncategorized
    creative writing, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, podcast, poetry, Poets at Work, the friday influence, The Personhood Project, Upstream Podcast, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Vincent Cooper, writing
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