Tag: La Llorona

• new publication: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext!

  Just a quick post to share the release of the latest BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext edited by Felicia Chavez, José Olivarez, and Willie Perdomo and published by Haymarket Books. Super-excited to share news of this release – in part because my own poem “La Llorona Watches the Movie Troy” is featured in its pages […]

  José Angel Araguz

  April 10, 2020

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  blog, creative writing, Haymarket Books, Jose Angel Araguz, La Llorona, Latinx Poetry, poetry, poetry community, The Breakbeat Poets, The BreakBeat Poets LatiNext, the friday influence, Troy

• microreview: Cenote City by Monique Quintana

  review by José Angel Araguz Monique Quintana’s debut novel, Cenote City (Clash Books), is a stellar addition to the Latinx storytelling tradition of texts born out of exploring the intersections where folklore, politics, cultura, and literature meet. Told through fable-like short chapters, Cenote City presents the story of Lune whose mother, Marcrina, cannot stop crying to […]

  José Angel Araguz

  March 20, 2020

  microreviews & interviews, Uncategorized

  Cenote City, Clash Books, fiction, Jose Angel Araguz, La Llorona, Latinx, literature, Monique Quintana, rasquachismo, reading, the friday influence, writing

• * new poem up at asterix journal!

  Just a quick post to share the news that my poem “La Llorona at the Saloon” is now up at Asterix Journal in their “Asterisms” section! I love the image they selected to go with my poem! Special thanks to editor Angie Cruz! See you Friday, José

  José Angel Araguz

  March 21, 2016

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  Angie Cruz, arts, Asterix Journal, astrology, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, Jose Angel Araguz, La Llorona, literature, lyric poems, poetry, publication, short lyric poems, the friday influence, Virgo, writing