Tag: writing
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recent news + upcoming event!
Just a quick post to share some recent happenings as well as information on an upcoming event: First, I’m excited to share that I was recently interviewed as part of Frontier Poetry’s “In Class” series of profiles of creative writing professors. Check out the interview here. Many thanks to Jose Hernandez Diaz for the invite […]
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not in the weeds, the weeds are in me, so to speak
Summer teaching started for me this week. Excited to start new conversations and encourage young writers to engage with articulating their authentic selves while navigating the rules of different spaces. Am exhausted, won’t lie, but that’s also the life. Did want to share two quick things: First, here’s another article to help navigate the ever-evolving […]
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book news & co.
Excited to share that my next book, we say Yes way before you, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in March 2020! You can read about the project as well as two poems from it in this profile. Special thanks to Diane Goettel and the BLP crew for being so welcoming! Been sitting on this […]
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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 […]
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shoutouts
Life’s been way too busy but I did want to get a post out this week to shoutout a few notable poetry collections published recently: Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain (Haymarket Books) is a dynamic collection that I’m happy to see out in the world. I’ve been teaching and admiring Pineda’s work for years now. […]
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microreview & interview: Radiant Obstacles by Luke Hankins
review by José Angel Araguz One of my favorite things about poetry is how it can not only detail an experience but also be an experience. The intimacy of language to be known and shared between us, to be changed and yet hold despite the changing, speaks to the human experience in a way that […]
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Pangyrus virtual reading!
Just a quick post to share an upcoming virtual reading I’ll be participating in: Join Pam Painter, Joelle Fraser, Ryane Nicole Granados, Artress Bethany White, and myself as we celebrate the release of Pangyrus eight! Pangyrus Literary Magazine’s 8th issue launches with this reading on Thursday, March 11 at 7:30pm EST. I’m grateful to be […]
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survival & understanding
It’s been wild y’all. Some minor emergencies. Some heavy conversations in and out of the classroom and mentoring spaces that I work in. The thread continues to be survival and understanding, in that order. These themes run through Dash Harris’ “No, I’m Not a Proud Latina” which I taught this week. This article, which calls […]
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writer feature: Saddiq Dzukogi
This week I’m delighted to feature friend and poet Saddiq Dzukogi whose book, Your Crib, My Qibla, is currently available for pre-order from University of Nebraska Press. Here’s a bit about the book: Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father’s pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In […]
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viscacha vibes & recent pubs
Meet my new friend, the viscacha. He’s got a look that is simultaneously wise, weary, and worked-over. While I can’t claim to be wise, I am definitely feeling weary and worked over by the world. Introduced this friend to my students this week and one responded with: “What does he hear that we don’t that […]