Tag: Albuquerque

• * new work at american tanka

  Just a quick post to announce the release of American Tanka’s issue 25: “between cries.” The issue starts off with one of my own tanka, which can be read here. In preparing to share the news, I found myself sketching back into the scene that inspired the tanka. Here is my best rendition of the…

  José Angel Araguz

  June 29, 2015

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• * discoveries in the disparate & kenneth p. gurney

  I remember reading that the semicolon is the most poetic of punctuation marks because of the way it holds two or more disparate things together, things that, under scrutiny, would not be thought of as usually being connected. Which is what poems do: just replace “it” in the sentence above with “a poem” and finish…

  José Angel Araguz

  May 16, 2014

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• * the unignorable with Aimee Nezhukumatathil

  Some things are unignorable. For example, moths seem to be unignorable in my writing.  They’ve crept in and out of my poems for years now.  Experiencing moth season in Albuquerque, New Mexico only increased the fascination. The bumbling after direction and light – yeah, I get that. They are a symbol of fragility and persistence…

  José Angel Araguz

  November 15, 2013

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  Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Albuquerque, arts, astrology, Capricorn, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poems, moths, New Mexico, poetry, the friday influence, Virgo, writing