Tag: Reasons (not) to Dance
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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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* remembering judith ortiz cofer
The Purpose of Nuns – Judith Ortiz Cofer As a young girl attending Sunday mass, I’d watch them float down the nave in their medieval somberness, the calm of salvation on the pink oval of their faces framed by tight-fitting coifs. They seemed above the tedious cycle of confession, penance and absolution they supervised: of…
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* grounding with natasha tretheway
Letter – Natasha Tretheway At the post office, I dash a note to a friend, tell her I’ve just moved in, gotten settled, that I’m now rushing off on an errand—except that I write errant, a slip between letters, each with an upright backbone anchoring it to the page. One has with it the fullness…
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* goodreads giveaway!
Goodreads Book Giveaway Reasons (not) to Dance by Jose Angel Araguz Giveaway ends August 07, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway Just a quick post to announce that I’m doing a Goodreads giveaway of my chapbook Reasons (not) to Dance (FutureCycle Press)! Check out the above links to find out how to enter.…
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* sharing some news & some tanka!
Just a quick post to officially announce that my second full length collection of poetry, Small Fires, has just been accepted for publication in 2017 from FutureCycle Press. This collection will feature the poems “Joe” and “El Rio” among others. FutureCycle are also the same good people who published my prose poem/flash fiction chapbook, Reasons (not) to…
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* moody mooning with stafford & gilbert
If you were a scientist, if you were an explorer who had been to the moon. . . What you said would have the force of that accumulated background of information; and any mumbles, mistakes, dithering, could be forgiven . . . But a poet – whatever you are saying, and however you are saying…
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* going with rodney gomez
From the first words on, a poem begins to perform itself, establishing a logic and vision as you read. Like someone you bump into on the street, a poem wants you to go with whatever kind of interaction is happening at that moment. Sometimes it’s small talk; sometimes it’s carrying furniture out to a car…
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* another excerpt from Reasons (not) to Dance
As promised, here is a second installment celebrating the release of my chapbook Reasons (not) to Dance! Above is another of the ink paintings by Andrea Schreiber that was nominated as a possible cover. This ink painting was specifically inspired by the piece “Spinster,” the text of which is below. Enjoy! Spinster – José Angel Araguz …
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* new chapbook – Reasons (not) to Dance – released!!!
I am happy to announce the release of my new chapbook, Reasons (not) to Dance! As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this collection of prose poems and flash fictions imaginatively explores moments of hesitation and celebration in the tradition of the Latin American microcuento as practiced by Ana Maria Shua, Eduardo Galeano, and Agosto Monterroso.…
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