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. With an MFA from New York University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, José is a faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA program as well as an Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston where he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander.
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Questions and correspondence are welcome at: thefridayinfluence@gmail.com
Find him on:
Twitter: @JoseAraguz
Instagram: poetryamano
Read “Gloves” featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry.
Read “Blade” Academy of American Poets Graduate Poetry Prize winner.
Read a review of Until We Are Level Again at Latino Book Review.
Check out the free digital chapbooks The Book of Flight , Naos: an introduction & Naos: Crumbs.
Nice to make your acquaintance!
Yours as well!
Nice to meet another creative from the Emerald City!
Jose, so happy to find your online home. It is always good to connect with you.
Its your Cincinnatian emailer. I checked out this page and like it a lot!
Thanks, Carla!
Happy to have discovered your poems through the Apple Valley Review, along with some other amazing poetry. Looking forward to reading more of your work!
Thank you so much, Sun, for reaching out and for taking the time to read!
I read your work in The Inflectionist Review issue 3. The poem ‘First Night’ reminded me of a poem called ‘A Baby’ by a Korean poet called Shin Kyong-Nim. That reaching back to a ‘hidden’ period of development, is a theme he uses too, it is the learning of a word that banishes the mystery for the baby in his poem.
I am not suggesting you have plagiarized him I hope you understand. I write poetry myself, i would be pleased if you found time to read some of it.
Thanks for reaching out! I’m excited to read the poem ‘A Baby’ as well as some of your work. Take care – Jose
If you can’t find the poem I will send it to you as it may not be easy to find, despite the vastness of the internet. Just let me know. The pleasure was all mine.
Actually found it via Google books: Along with the kindred note you spoke of with my poem and its interaction with the act of language, I love the time travel in the poem, how, section by section, something big changes, until the “he” is himself something “piled up” with knowledge and a specific kind of regret. Thanks!
Hi Jose Angel, thanks for stopping by to read my story at Citron Review. -ben
Of course! Nice work!
What a nice surprise to find a new poetry collection.
I read Robert Okaji on a regular basis.
Thank you !
Of course! Thanks for stoppng by 🙂
“Gloves” breaks my heart; “Blade” nearly stops it. So glad to have found your work via NewPages.
Thank you for stopping by, Beth! It means a lot to be read with consideration. Thank you for your kind words. Hope you’re well! Abrazos, José