Tag: poet laureate

• *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…

  José Angel Araguz

  July 29, 2016

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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…

  José Angel Araguz

  July 24, 2015

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