Tag: essay
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new essay published: excerpt
This week I’m proud to share an excerpt from my essay “Keeping the Conversation Going, or Some Stories I Can’t Tell Without Rolling My R’s: A Meditation on Latinidad, Disdentification, & Some Poems” which was recently included in the anthology Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets edited by Abayomi Animashaun and published…
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new essay at Medium!
Just a quick post to share that my short essay, “The Speaking Up Mantra,” was recently published at Medium! Read it here. This essay came about as part of a series of activities Linfield College put together to welcome new students to campus and help them as they transition into college culture. I was asked…
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new work up at Hinchas de Poesía & Blood Moon Blog!
Just a quick post to share that my poem in Spanish “Thank You for Not Smoking (una traducción práctica)” is included in the latest issue of Hinchas de Poesía! This poem is part of a series of “practical translations” of signs from English into mine own Spanish interpretation. This issue also includes work by Mario Alejandra…
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borges: a lyrical alignment
This past week, I found myself reading the essay “Verbiage for Poems” by Jorge Luis Borges (found in On Writing, Penguin Classics), and coming across a marvelous paragraph – emphasis on the ‘marvel,’ something of strange weather patterns moving across the sky in the middle of an ordinary afternoon about this paragraph. In my enthusiasm, I found…
The Friday Influence 