Published by José Angel Araguz
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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This interview gave me some vocabulary for something I haven’t really put words to when reading your poems. I think of them as “rooted” — firmly and vividly in a place and a time…and reading this has left me inclined to go back and see how the language in Corpus Christi Octaves differs from the language in Everything We Think We Hear and The Divorce Suite. Thinking…’sploring…
Thanks for reading, Laura! I appreciate the attention and consideration paid, my friend. Abrazos!