Tag: Juan Felipe Herrera
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new book pre-order, cover, & other news!
Just a quick post to share the news that my forthcoming poetry book, Rotura, is now available for pre-order from Black Lawrence Press. I am excited to share the cover as well featuring artwork by Heather Goodwind. I am also excited to share the wonderful blurb that Juan Felipe Herrera was kind enough to write…
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walking working with juan felipe herrera
Some good news: I am happy to report that last Friday, 1/20, I successfully defended my dissertation! This event marks the culmination of four years of effort, doubt, more effort, and study. After I defended my dissertation, I found myself amidst a crowd protesting the inauguration, which was encouraging, until I saw at the top…
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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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* 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…
The Friday Influence 