Tag: chapbook
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* salvaging with kay ryan
Salvage – Kay Ryan The wreck is a fact. The worst has happened. The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work. Thanks be to god—again— for extractable elements which are not carriers of pain, for this periodic table at which the self-taught salvagers disassemble the […]
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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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* final reasons (not) to dance excerpts & art
For various reasons, I fell behind in sharing more from my latest chapbook of prose poems and flash fictions, Reasons (not) to Dance. As promised, here is the final installment of excerpts and artwork from the project. This almost-cover image was inspired by the piece below, “Relinquished.” One of the memories that always comes up when revisiting […]
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* chapbooks celebration reading
As promised, I have uploaded another reading from our time in Texas back in April. I had hoped to share videos of me reading from both Corpus Christi Octaves and The Wall in order to celebrate their respective anniversaries. Sadly, the reading from the Octaves was severely crashed by seagulls and sun. The seagulls kept […]
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* another excerpt from Reasons (not) to Dance
As promised, here is a second installment celebrating the release of my chapbook Reasons (not) to Dance! Above is another of the ink paintings by Andrea Schreiber that was nominated as a possible cover. This ink painting was specifically inspired by the piece “Spinster,” the text of which is below. Enjoy! Spinster – José Angel Araguz […]
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* tanka, update, & news
after the discharge orders we idle at a stop sign I haven’t heard the birds til now — Jose Angel Araguz * Just a quick post to update on life as well as to share news of a sale. Update: I am happy to report that I was discharged from the hospital Friday afternoon and […]
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* flying beyond the surface with ernesto cardenal
The Parrots – Ernesto Cardenal My friend Michel is an army officer in Somoto up near the Honduran border, and he told me he had found some contraband parrots waiting to be smuggled to the United States to learn to speak English there. There were 186 parrots with 47 already dead in their cages. He […]
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* new work up at Star 82 Review
Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of Star 82 Review which includes my piece “Hangman Ode.” Read it here. The issue features work from B.J. Best, Eve Kenneally, and Todd Mercer along with other fine work. Check it out here. I’m especially excited because “Hangman Ode” is a part of […]
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* new work up at the inflectionist review
Just a quick post to announce the latest issue of The Inflectionist Review which includes four of my new Naos poems: “Naos Explains Memory,” “Naos Explains Ghosts,” “Naos Explains X,” & “Naos and Who He Would Pray To.” This issue also features work by Kate Soules, Julia Webb, and a special interview and feature on […]
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* 2014 End of Year Reading
Seeing as we’ll be in 2015 by next Friday – life happens that quick! – I thought I would do something different to wrap up 2014. Below is a short reading from my chapbook Corpus Christi Octaves done on the banks of the Ohio River earlier this week. Note the heavy fog on the river: by […]
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