Tag: pandemic

• microreview: Year of the Murder Hornet by Tina Cane

  review by José Angel Araguz As the pandemic continues being an ongoing, consistent crisis killing 4,000 people a week in this country* — this despite the current administration’s plan to call an end to it as a health emergency — it feels more urgent than ever to honor and bring attention to work that lives…

  José Angel Araguz

  February 1, 2023

  microreviews & interviews, Uncategorized

  creative writing, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, microreview, pandemic, People's CDC, poetry, social media, the friday influence, Tina Cane, Veliz Books, writing, Year of the Murder Hornet

• exhaustingly onward

  Since my last post in April, there’s been a lot of life. The short of it is that I’m writing this after moving to a new city. Along with the move, there was wrapping up teaching for two semesters as well as production for the spring/summer issue of Salamander. All of this is exciting but…

  José Angel Araguz

  June 18, 2021

  Uncategorized

  blog, creative writing, critical race theory, Jose Angel Araguz, Latinx, literature, pandemic, poetry, reading, Steven Leyva, the friday influence, writing

• unsilencing in these times, ha

  Let me start off with a half-quandary / half-aphorism: Post-election isn’t exactly post yet–what’s that s’post to mean? I’m still nervous. Alright, now that I got that out of my system, here are some thoughts from this past week: I caught myself sharing with my students in passing that life’s been sad and busy mostly…

  José Angel Araguz

  November 13, 2020

  Uncategorized

  Beth Nguyen, blog, creative writing, Italo Calvino, Jessica Salfia, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, pandemic, poetry, post-election, the friday influence, Yong Jie