NEWS + EVENTS
I will be at AWP as part of the panel: Writing Poetry in English as a Second, Third, Etc. Language
Room 2104A, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Saturday, February 10, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 amLa Casa Roja is one of five finalists for the 2023 Omnidawn 1st/2nd book Prize.
La Casa Roja is a finalist for the National Poetry Series for a third time in a row. This fall 2023.
It is my great honor to announce I won the 2023 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Poetry with my poem “Servants of God”. Thank you to the beautiful journal, its readers, and editors, Chet’la Sebree, for judging and to all the finalists.
Chet’la Sebree’s words on the poem: "“Servants of God” does what I love most about ekphrastic poems. It not only renders the painting for unfamiliar readers but lingers on details that give us insight into the speaker as it zooms in and out on the central artwork, which somehow both is and is not the center of the poem. As we move closer to and farther away from the painting, we sit alongside the speaker at dinner tables as they seamlessly stitch into the poem’s fabric conversations about biblical iconography, immigration, familial relations, and the legacy of casta paintings."Event: Unnameable Books Reading w/ Joshua Burton & Bridget O'Bernstein (July 14, 2023) (NYC). East Coast Release reading for Joshua Burton’s Grace Engine.
Desirée Alvarez, switching hats, organizes an afternoon of Ecopoetry readings, joined by guest poets Alonso Llerena, Stephen Massimilla, Thea Matthews, Jo Sarzotti and Elizabeth Zuba. Elena Berriolo’s performance with sewing machine investigates the social, economic, political, and environmental tears in our society through the making of an interactive accordion book.
See the reading here! From 3/24/2o23
Event: I will be reading poetry to close out the Art & Border Relations talk for the Brooklyn Rail. 9/15/2022
La Casa Roja was selected as a finalist for the National Poetry Series 2022.
La Casa Roja was selected as a finalist for the 10th edition of the Andres Montoya Prize.
Event: I will read for the release of FENCE #39 at their 2022 AWP off-site event.
Friday, March 25th, 2022. Black Sheep Pub 247 17th street Philadelphia.
La Casa Roja was selected as a finalist for the National Poetry Series 2021.
Read my review of Adam O. Davis’ debut, Index of Haunted Houses, over at Poetry International.
New poem at Pidgeonholes! Check it out at http://pidgeonholes.com/2021/04/poema-de-playa/
Please check out the lastest issue of https://www.cobra-milk.com/
La Casa Roja is named a finalist for the 2020 Prairie Schooner First Book Prize.
Some words from the judges Hilda Raz, Kate Daniels, Matthew Dickman and Editor in chief Kwame Dawes:
“The carnage and death rise up in this beautiful and difficult book of lyric narratives, odes, elegies, and from the shadows of war, of immigration, of love and family, this poet has done what poetry intends: to take the rubble and discordance of life and build something meaningful out of it.”
Raft of Flame and The Miraculous, Sometimes reviewed in Rosebud Ben-Oni’s Kenyon Review Blog.
University of Wisconsin Press' Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes Semifinalist for La Casa Roja.
YesYes Books Open Reading 2019 Finalist in Poetry for La Casa Roja
Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week feature.
Brooklyn Poets Inaugural Hudson Valley Retreat Fellow December 2019
Brooklyn Poets Fellowship for Individual Artist Development July 2019
Tin House Summer Workshop 2019 Alumnus
Tin House Winter Workshop 2019 Alumnus
Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2018 Cohort