Tag: art
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in memory: Alfonso M. Gomez
Poetry’s ability to connect with us in essential ways cannot be stressed enough. This is a sentiment I share on a regular basis in my teaching and conversations with writers. As much as I repeat it, I can’t claim it. What I can claim is the evidence that fills my life and the connections my…
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writer feature: Clara Burghelea
This week I’m excited to share two poems by Clara Burghelea. I was taken right away by Burghelea’s work and how it develops lyric momentum through complex imagery. In “Nostalgia,” for example, the idea of being “sick” for a body “before it was a body” immediately kicks off from the title into a meditation how bodies develop…
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community feature: Artists Undeterred – Art Exhibit
This week, I’d like to introduce a new type of feature on the Influence: community features. In these features, I’ll be promoting events put on by marginalized literary communities and spotlighting their efforts. If you have a community you feel should be highlighted, feel free to message me about it either on Twitter (@JoseAraguz) or…
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with Rae Armantrout
This summer has me putting in office hours on campus, spending the mornings thinking through the syllabi & co. for the courses I’ll be teaching in the fall. I then, to varying success, allow myself time in the afternoon to work on writing projects, including a nonfiction essay collection, a book of poems in Spanish,…
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how i write
This week’s post consists of two parts: First, a blog post I wrote for a journal a few years ago that, for one reason or another, wasn’t used by them. The prompt was to describe your writing space and how you write, and also to include a picture of that space. The pencil sketch that constitutes…
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exquisiting with nathalie handal
This week’s poem, “White Trees” by Nathalie Handal, provided the first line to an exquisite corpse exercise I conducted with my classes this week. An exquisite corpse is a writing game created by surrealists and is conducted in a group setting. Each person writes down a line of poetry, then hands their paper to another…
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futuring with julio cortázar
two personal notes I want to first acknowledge and show my support for anyone suffering and struggling due to Hurricane Harvey. In my world, I have been checking in with my family in Corpus Christi since last Thursday. Everyone is safe there; struggled without power from last Friday to Wednesday, but safe. I have done…
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blurring via bei dao
Sometimes a poem blurs the line between where one is and what one feels in a fruitful way. In Bei Dao’s “The Boundary,” one sees this kind of blurring happen in the repetition of the phrase “I want to go to the other bank” and the images between them. The repeated phrase has the directness…
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new #poetsofinstagram interview!
Just a quick post to share my latest interview in my #poetsofinstagram series over at the Cincinnati Review blog! Read it here. This time around @colette.lh shares some of her stunning work as well as insights into what motivates and inspires her writing. Be sure to check out my own @poetryamano account, a poetry project focused…
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new poems up at Gris-Gris & new CR post!
Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of Gris-Gris, which includes my poems “The Ladder” and “Clock Affirmations.” “The Ladder” is dedicated to my friend Christine Maloy whose passing is also commemorated in my second chapbook, Corpus Christi Octaves. This issue also includes work by Alejandro Escudé, Kristen Jackson, and Stanley Rubin among…
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