Tag: CantoMundo
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* grounding with natasha tretheway
Letter - Natasha Tretheway At the post office, I dash a note to a friend, tell her I’ve just moved in, gotten settled, that I’m now rushing off on an errand—except that I write errant, a slip between letters, each with an upright backbone anchoring it to the page. One has with it the fullness […]
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*resonating with josé antonio rodriguez
Last week had me both at the Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, as well as in Austin, Texas for the CantoMundo conference. It’s a little more rocknroll that I’m used to, but I had a blast! Here’s a pic of one of the nice surprises from […]
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* revisiting everything
This week, I had the opportunity to talk poetry at the Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat which is held at Adelphi University. We wrote about the moon a la William Stafford’s qoute, and used that exercise’s focus on performance and attention to talk about various approaches to lyrical prose. It was a great group who […]
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* new poem up at Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review!
Just a quick post to share my poem “About Languages” originally published in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review Issue 42. Borderlands has also made available poems by Joshua Gage, Eric Fisher Stone, Celeste Guzmán Mendoza and Rosebud Ben-Oni. Check them all out here. Borderlands Issue 44 (pictured here) features my poem “Fisherman” and is available for […]
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* new book review
Just a quick post to announce my review of fellow CantoMundo poet Juan J. Morales’s powerful book, The Siren World! Thanks to Sally & Housten at The Volta Blog for their continued support! Thanks also to Juan for writing such an engaging and heartfelt book! To read a poem from The Siren World, check out this previous […]
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* new review up at the volta blog
Just a quick note to share my latest review for The Volta Blog. This time around, I had the honor of reviewing fellow CantoMundo poet, Yesenia Montilla. It’s an inspiring book, one that adds to the conversation of the aesthetics and cultural understanding that come from engaging with one’s family history and traditions as well […]
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* ¡presente! with anne sexton
The Truth the Dead Know - Anne Sexton For my mother, born March 1902, died March 1959 and my father, born February 1900, died June 1959 Gone, I say and walk from church, refusing the stiff procession to the grave, letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. It is June. I am tired of […]
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* review of natalie scenters-zapico’s the verging cities
This week’s poem, “After I Read Your Obituary,” is by fellow CantoMundista Natalie Scenters-Zapico. The poem comes from her collection The Verging Cities which I was fortunate enough to get to review for The Volta Blog. In my review, I focus on the phrase “Let me learn you how” (found early in the collection) as a key […]
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* influences, cantomundo, & the kenyon review
Just a quick post to share my contribution to Rosebud Ben-Oni’s recent guest post at the Kenyon Review blog. Rosebud reached out to her fellow CantoMundistas - Javier Zamora, Carolina Ebeid, Yesenia Montilla, Ruben Quesada, Amy Sayre Baptista, & myself - and asked us each to write a few words on the books by Latina/os […]
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* new anthology: Goodbye, Mexico
We Are Of A Tribe - Alberto Rios We plant seeds in the ground and dreams in the sky, Hoping that, someday, the roots of one Will meet the upstretched limbs of the other. It has not happened yet. Still, Together, we nod unafraid of strangers. Inside us, we know something about each other: We […]
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