Tag: writing
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poetryamano project: august 2017
This week I’m sharing another installment archiving my Instagram poetry project entitled @poetryamano (poetry by hand). This account focuses on sharing poems written by hand, either in longhand or through more experimental forms such as erasures/blackout poems and found poems. Below are highlights from August 2017. This month found me focusing on haiku on short, imagistic haiku. […]
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community feature: CavanKerry Press
This particular community feature post is inspired by a recent development: I’m happy to share that I’ve been named as a member of the Board of Governors for CavanKerry Press! I’m excited to join as a new board member, along with Cornelius Eady, and help develop the already dynamic CavanKerry Press community. Special thanks to […]
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microreview: Word Has It by Ruth Danon
review by José Angel Araguz One of the things I admire about Ruth Danon’s Word Has It (Nirala Publications) is how the collection brings together via short lyrics and prose poem sequences a vibe of being a spy of language. I say “spy” and mean specifically a sensibility able to evoke the range of curiosity, intrigue, […]
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microreview: Cenote City by Monique Quintana
review by José Angel Araguz Monique Quintana’s debut novel, Cenote City (Clash Books), is a stellar addition to the Latinx storytelling tradition of texts born out of exploring the intersections where folklore, politics, cultura, and literature meet. Told through fable-like short chapters, Cenote City presents the story of Lune whose mother, Marcrina, cannot stop crying to […]
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new interview
Just a quick post to share a recent interview up on Grist: a journal of the literary arts! Special thanks to poet friend, John Sibley Williams, for asking such insightful questions and to Grist for helping us find a home for the exchange. Happy gristing! José
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microreview: Slingshot by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
review by José Angel Araguz There’s a moment toward the end of the sequence “a machine of mahogany and bronze I” in Cyrée Jarelle Johnson’s debut poetry collection Slingshot (Nightboat Books) where, in the aftermath of a protest demonstration broken up by police brutality, the speaker is asked “You heard about the storm comin’?” which prompts […]
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José & the unintended hiatus + interview
First and foremost, apologies for the radio silence. Totally unintended. A lot of life has happened, good and bad. It has been strange not being here in this space. I look forward to doing a bit more now that I’m getting life in order. I’ve got a few reviews in the works as well as […]
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writer feature: Yahia Lababidi & Laura Kaminski
This week’s poem was drawn from the feature submissions! For guidelines on how to submit work, see the “submissions” tab above. * Happy to be sharing a collaborative poem this week by two poet friends: Yahia Lababidi and Laura Kaminski. Collaborative poems create such singular reading experiences, the meeting of two sensibilities creating another sensibility performed […]
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writer feature: Olivia Dresher
Jumping back into things with the work of Olivia Dresher whose latest collection of fragments and aphorisms, A Silence of Words, came out recently from Impassio Press. I actually had the opportunity to get an early read of A Silence of Words and got to share my thoughts via the following blurb: “In A Silence of Words, Olivia Dresher […]
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one more from Lynn Otto
In my recent microreview & interview of Lynn Otto’s Real Daughter (Unicorn Press, 2019), I noted some of the ways in which Otto’s poetic sensibility is able to take readers into the liminal space in which words make their meanings as well as gesture toward other imaginative possibilities. Within the traditions of lyric poetry — traditions whose […]
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