Tag: Small Fires
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feature + interview up at Crab Creek Review blog!
Happy to share a poetry feature and mini-interview that went live earlier this week up at the Crab Creek Review blog! This feature comes as part of their “From Their Archive” series. It’s a generous and encouraging feature to see in the writing community. The post includes my poems “Alien” and “Desgraciado” as well as…
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family & language
Tonight I have a reading at The Book Bin in Salem, Oregon. This reading will be my first official reading from my new book, Until We Are Level Again (Mongrel Empire Press). In honor of the reading, I am sharing the poem below which inspired the cover art by Ani Schreiber. Birds figure heavily in the…
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marvin bell & monopoem giveaway
Obsessive – Marvin Bell It could be a clip, it could be a comb; it could be your mother, coming home. It could be a rooster; perhaps it’s a comb; it could be your father, coming home. It could be a paper; it could be a pin. It could be your childhood, sinking in. The…
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Small Fires excerpt & Goodreads giveaway announcement!
This week I am excited to announce a Goodreads giveaway for my latest poetry collection, Small Fires (FutureCycle Press). I’ll be giving away ten signed copies of the book. Deadline is August 10th, 2017. Check out the details here: Goodreads Book Giveaway Small Fires by Jose Angel Araguz Giveaway ends August 10, 2017. See the giveaway…
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new work & review online!
The recent busyness of my move back to Oregon have delayed my sharing a number of recent online publications. First up is the latest issue of Failed Haiku which features four of my senryu as well as illuminating work by Alexis Rotella, Lori A. Minor, Chen-ou Liu, and Terri L. French. Check out the issue here!…
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rioing with roberto carcache flores
In my microreview & interview of Roberto Carcache Flores’ A Condensation of Maps, I noted how Flores has a knack for working up images that connect on both a conceptual and emotional level. In this week’s poem, “Friends in Rio Sapo,” we see the gradual build up of details and images culminate in a moment…
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earing with charles simic
Happy to report that things are moving along with the, uhm, move to McMinnville. We’re situated in a new home and are piecing together who we are from what we have been — which is to say that all our stuff is here, but not fully organized. As time has been slipping past me during…
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rain & memory via claribel alegria
This week brought the release of my new poetry collection, Small Fires (FutureCycle Press), which includes the poem “Cazar Means to Hunt Not to Marry” originally published in december magazine. This particular poems travels through a series of memories on the back of two words that sound the same but are spelled different. Language as an experience beyond…
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Small Fires is here!!!
I’m happy to announce the release of my new book of poetry, Small Fires, available now from FutureCycle Press and Amazon!!! This collection includes my poem “Blade” which won an Academy of American Poets Graduate Poetry Prize selected by Carl Phillips. Be sure to check out the book and stay tuned for the availability of signed…
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new doors via richard tillinghast
A few big changes have happened in my life that I am barely catching up on enough to relate here. The first is that I have happily accepted an Assistant Professor position at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. I am really excited to be joining a stellar faculty at an institution known for cultivating a…
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