Tag: Corpus Christi Octaves

• testamenting with Carolyn M. Rodgers

  Over the summer, I got a chance to add to my forthcoming poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness, which will be published in 2019 by Airlie Press. This book is an expansion of my chapbook Corpus Christi Octaves (Flutter Press) and its series of lyric sequences about two late friends from my hometown in Texas. This new collection […]

  José Angel Araguz

  September 14, 2018

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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 […]

  José Angel Araguz

  January 16, 2017

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• * new essay up at Art + Money!

  Just a quick post to announce the publication of my essay “Snapshots From a Year Without Electricity” in Art + Money! Art + Money is a free monthly newsletter in which writers and artists talk about how money shapes their lives. (No spam. Just crazy-great original essays.) Sign up here: http://tinyletter.com/catbaab/ “Snapshots From a Life Without […]

  José Angel Araguz

  November 28, 2016

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• * moody mooning with stafford & gilbert

  If you were a scientist, if you were an explorer who had been to the moon. . . What you said would have the force of that accumulated background of information; and any mumbles, mistakes, dithering, could be forgiven . . . But a poet – whatever you are saying, and however you are saying […]

  José Angel Araguz

  March 18, 2016

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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 […]

  José Angel Araguz

  July 7, 2015

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• * lining up with charlotte mew

  So, at one point during CantoMundo, this happened: This image pretty much sums up my feelings this week in regards to the release of my new chapbook, Corpus Christi Octaves, and all the support people have shown both here on the blog as well as on Facebook and Twitter. To all of you who have sent […]

  José Angel Araguz

  August 1, 2014

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• * new chapbook: Corpus Christi Octaves

  I am happy to announce that my new chapbook – Corpus Christi Octaves – is officially available from Flutter Press! Purchasing info here. This collection is made up of two elegiac sequences and an interlude. My goal with the two sequences is to honor my friends both for what they meant to me but also for […]

  José Angel Araguz

  July 28, 2014

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