Since I am moving this week back to Oregon and am on the road as I write this, I decided I would forgo the usual Friday Influence post and share some life sketches. I will resume the usual astrologically-centered good times next week. Enjoy!
José Angel Araguz is a CantoMundo fellow and the author of seven chapbooks as well as the collections Everything We Think We Hear, Small Fires, Until We Are Level Again, and, most recently, An Empty Pot’s Darkness. His poems, creative nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in Crab Creek Review, Prairie Schooner, New South, Poetry International, and The Bind. Born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, he runs the poetry blog The Friday Influence and composes erasure poems on the Instagram account @poetryamano. He is also a faculty member in Pine Manor College’s Solstice Low-Residency MFA program. With an MFA from New York University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, José is an Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston where he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander Magazine.
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3 thoughts on “* travel update & some life sketches”
Hosay! Nice work there. I liked how peaceful I felt after reading those. Hope your arrival is or was warm and comfortable. Dianne
Hosay! Nice work there. I liked how peaceful I felt after reading those. Hope your arrival is or was warm and comfortable. Dianne
Thanks for the kind words and good wishes. And of course for the awesome send-off! Best.
J
You’ve definitely put me on the road with you. Beautiful stuff. And I’m intrigued to see what a return to Oregon produces for you!