Tag: Latin@ Poetry
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* new review up at the volta blog
Just a quick note to share my latest review for The Volta Blog. This time around, I had the honor of reviewing fellow CantoMundo poet, Yesenia Montilla. It’s an inspiring book, one that adds to the conversation of the aesthetics and cultural understanding that come from engaging with one’s family history and traditions as well…
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* in memory of francisco x. alarcón
The X in My Name – Francisco X. Alarcón the poor signature of my illiterate and peasant self giving away all rights in a deceiving contract for life The death of Francisco X. Alarcón earlier this month has been on my mind as I wrap up my 3rd year reading and work through exams this…
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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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* Francisco X. Alarcón: poem & review
Happy to share my latest review for the Volta Blog: a meditation on Francisco X. Alarcón’s latest collection, Canto Hondo. In my review, I discuss Alarcón’s engagement with Federico García Lorca’s ideas on cante jondo (deep song). Alarcón delves into García Lorca’s homage to his Andalusian influences to create his own deep song tempered by his own distinct poetic line, a line…
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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…
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* influences, cantomundo, & the kenyon review
Just a quick post to share my contribution to Rosebud Ben-Oni’s recent guest post at the Kenyon Review blog. Rosebud reached out to her fellow CantoMundistas – Javier Zamora, Carolina Ebeid, Yesenia Montilla, Ruben Quesada, Amy Sayre Baptista, & myself – and asked us each to write a few words on the books by Latina/os…
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* new work up at the acentos review
Just a quick post to announce the latest issue of The Acentos Review which includes my poems “Visit” and “Augustina.” Check them out here. The issue also includes fine work by Heather Flores, Roberto Carlos Garcia, and Natalia Ruiz-Junco among others – check them out here. Special thanks to Dr. Raina J. León for putting together…
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* Rosa Alcalá’s Undocumentaries
Confessional Poem – Rosa Alcalá The girl next door had something to teach me about what to air: On the line somebody’s business gets told then recounted; it’s best to thread a tale for the neighbors, an orchestration of sorts. But I am far from modest in my telling of lies. There are three references…
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* new anthology: Goodbye, Mexico
We Are Of A Tribe – Alberto Rios We plant seeds in the ground and dreams in the sky, Hoping that, someday, the roots of one Will meet the upstretched limbs of the other. It has not happened yet. Still, Together, we nod unafraid of strangers. Inside us, we know something about each other: We…
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* charting the world with rafael campo
In searching for images to accompany this week’s poem, I came across the photo below. The photo is from 1933 and is of the Metropolitan nurses home at Roosevelt Island, part of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital complex. The image below stayed with me for the way it captured what might have been part of someone’s daily…
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