Here is where my sentences are choppy. My thoughts may be incomplete. Here is where I tap into disparate and desperate images and ideas that serve as kindling in what becomes the fire in a poem.
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Announcing: New OyeDrum Editor
I’ve just been named the new Writing and Hybrid Works Editor with OyeDrum. I’m looking forward to working with the coven and in reading submissions for hybrid and prose work. Learn more about OyeDrum, and check out my interview with our leader Amarantha da Cruz.
There will be a call soon for new hybrid writing and prose work. Join the mailing list!
Motherwork
This unique panel discussion will look at motherwork through a queer artist lens. What does it mean to mother? RSVP or for more info look here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-motherwork-tending-to-the-past-present-and-our-futurity-tickets-460161364027
Niki Herd reading
Join me in celebrating Niki Herd’s newest creation. I’ll be opening for her.
You can watch on Facebook live!
https://facebook.com/events/s/niki-herd-live-with-guests/769124271057247/
There’s also an option of registering to watch via zoom (which would be most reliable), here.
new publication: Zocalo
Rodney Gomez served as curator for Zocalo Public Square and chose poets in and from the RGV to highlight. I’m honored to be in the mix! My poem, “Flashes“, was featured.
all the blues | RGV poetry reading
Some of the best poetic voices in the RGV coming together for this blue-themed reading at Casa Azul. Come through!
‘eye wall’
My first published short story recently appeared in The Acentos Review, a journal I’ve long read and admired. I’m beyond happy to be in its pages. Check out the story here, which is centered on a beautiful gay man dying during Hurrican Andrew.
In celebration of César L. De Léon’s “speaking with grackles by soapberry trees”
Featuring some of the best voices in the RGV!
Queer Voices reading
In-person and in fabulous company!
printable : origami fortune teller poem
Increasingly, as I’ve taught workshops I have crafted takeaway documents for further study. Very recently, I’ve returned to drawing or painting or playing with clay. It soothes my hands after a lot of 15 page papers for school. But it also refreshes my mind. So, as a new feature for my website, I’ll occasionally offer printables for those who visit. I may place them all on one page at some point but for now they will show on this blog page.
The first printable is an origami fortune teller that is also a visual poem. Dependent on the section you choose you will help me in crafting a poem. Click on the image below to open the pdf.
Possible poems include:
we tumble / like stones / across the land / across the water
we search / like ants / circling / foraging
Future printables will include quick writing prompts or tricks to get into writing, or guides to help develop characters or scenes.
Let me know how you like these!
Poetry Presentation in the RGV
Join some incredible poets Thursday, April 21. I’ll be joining masterful poet and translator, Julieta Corpus, and library advocate and former poet laureate for McAllen, Priscilla Celina “Lina” Suarez. Both have new books out! And we’ll be hosted by the incomparable Emmy Perez and Carolina Monsivais.
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