Tag: book
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microreview & interview: Jenny Sadre-Orafai’s Malak
review by José Angel Araguz Autobiography at Fifty Feet – Jenny Sadre-Orafai We’ll write our autobiography when we’re teenagers, before we grow into our teeth. Before we meet people who will laugh at us for reasons we’ll talk about when we’re older and divorced. And we’ll both still know our exes because we have to,…
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Small Fires is here!!!
I’m happy to announce the release of my new book of poetry, Small Fires, available now from FutureCycle Press and Amazon!!! This collection includes my poem “Blade” which won an Academy of American Poets Graduate Poetry Prize selected by Carl Phillips. Be sure to check out the book and stay tuned for the availability of signed…
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some influence & book news!
influence news This month marks five years of blogging on The Friday Influence! Over the years, this space has been a great source of community for me. Thank you to all of you who stop by regularly or just pop in at random looking for a poem. I continue learning much from interacting with you, either…
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* Q&A up at Carve Magazine blog!
Happy to share this recent Q&A session focusing on my poem “Hails from Corpus Christi” from my forthcoming collection Small Fires (FutureCycle Press, 2017). In this short session, I discuss this poem in terms of “soundscape” and measure as well as go into some of the themes of the upcoming collection. There might also be a brief…
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* new CR blog microreview & interview!
Just a quick post to announce that my latest microreview & interview for the Cincinnati Review blog is up! This time around, I do a close reading of moments from A. Molotkov’s upcoming collection, The Catalog of Broken Things (Airlie Press). A. Molotkov edits The Inflectionist Review along with John Sibley Williams. Find out more about A.…
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* sharing some news & some tanka!
Just a quick post to officially announce that my second full length collection of poetry, Small Fires, has just been accepted for publication in 2017 from FutureCycle Press. This collection will feature the poems “Joe” and “El Rio” among others. FutureCycle are also the same good people who published my prose poem/flash fiction chapbook, Reasons (not) to…
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* new collection released!!!
I’m happy to announce that my new collection Everything We Think We Hear is officially available on Amazon! As I’ve mentioned here, this project brings the prose poem and flash fiction structure of my chapbook Reasons (not) to Dance and takes it in a more personal direction, adds a little more guacamole and South Texas to my usual…
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* beginning with juan felipe herrera & some news
This week’s poem by Juan Felipe Herrera (recently appointed as the first Chicana/o U.S. Poet Laureate) caught me towards the end the first time I read it. The way the details come together. The turn and return at the end to the image of something dark around the neck. Each reading of it since that…
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* a little bit on process
Just finished a batch of 200+ poems and am sorting through them with the help of my editor/first reader/manager/lady in order to see if there’s a book in there. My process is simply to fill up a journal (those sleek/cliche Moleskines) and leave that journal alone for at least a year. When I come back…
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