Tag: poetry community
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microreview & interview: Susan Lewis’ Heisenberg’s Salon
review by José Angel Araguz Drawing inspiration from German physicist Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which “states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa,” Susan Lewis’ latest collection, Heisenberg’s Salon (BlazeVOX [books]), presents a prose poem collection that evokes the form’s surrealist traditions […]
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being more with w. todd kaneko
This week I’m featuring a poem from W. Todd Kaneko’s powerful book The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Kaneko’s project - which takes the lives and deaths of famous wrestlers and weaves them across narratives of marriage, father/son relationships, and masculinity - conducts the kind of emotional and intellectual algebra that opens up worlds to its readers. The […]
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new poem up at tahoma literary review!
Just a quick post to share the release of the latest issue of Tahoma Literary Review which includes my poem “A Mu’allaqa for Clifton Avenue!” This issue is available for free PDF download through the next week here. This particular poem is a longer one for me, and engages the spirit of the Arabic poetry form […]
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new poems & column!
Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of Apple Valley Review which includes my two poems “Small Talk” and “Waiting!” This issue also includes great work by Amorak Huey and Sandra Kohler among others. Check the issue out here. * I also wrote a bit about how introversion & extraversion […]
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celebrating okla elliott
In the Days of New Wonder - Okla Elliott Nikola Tesla watched a brown bear climb the persimmon tree and shake her snout at the sour bites she took. He nursed his sickness by an open window, seeing death in stellar signals. The brown bear climbed down and gamboled to Tesla’s darkened frame and snorted […]
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new poem at tinderbox poetry journal!
Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of Tinderbox Poetry Journal which includes my poem “Pantoum for the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe!” This poem is cousin to my recent microessay published at the Letras Latinas blog. This issue of Tinderbox also includes powerful work by Su Hwang, […]
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story work with naomi shihab nye
Building off of last week’s theme of story work, this week’s poem - “The Story, Around the Corner” by Naomi Shihab Nye - presents another side of stories. Here, a story takes on human attributes, including free will. The logic of the poem develops the idea of a story as being out of our hands, […]
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microessay & microfictions!
Just a quick post to share the publication of my microessay “One Broken Line at a Time: Notes on Poetry and Migration” featured at Letras Latinas earlier this week. During the month of March, Poetry Coalition members CantoMundo and Letras Latinas are partnering to present guest posts by CM fellows at Letras Latinas Blog that […]
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poems, news, & audio!
Just a quick post to share that my poem “Of Breaking” can be read and heard on Toe Good Poetry’s site! This poem is featured in my upcoming second collection, Small Fires (FutureCycle Press), which I am happy to share has a release date of May 22nd. I’m really looking forward to its release. I am also happy to […]
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