* Q&A up at Carve Magazine blog!

Happy to share this recent Q&A session focusing on my poem “Hails from Corpus Christi” from my forthcoming collection Small Fires (FutureCycle Press, 2017).

In this short session, I discuss this poem in terms of “soundscape” and measure as well as go into some of the themes of the upcoming collection.

There might also be a brief reference to the Ninja Turtles.

Just sayin’.

Special thanks to Ellie Francis Breivogel for her insightful questions as well as to everyone at Carve Magazine!

“Hails from Corpus Christi” will be published in CM’s next issue which is available for pre-order!

Happy hailing!

José

* two poems at The Boiler Journal!

fall16_boiler1Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of The Boiler Journal which features two poems from a manuscript-in-progress. Read them here.

“Forging” and “The Broken Escalator at the Train Platform” both come from my years living in New Jersey/New York when I would commute to work and grad school.

This issue also features work by fellow UC poet Emily Rose Cole as well as stellar work by Leslie Marie Aguilar and Monica Lewis among others.

Check out the rest of the issue here.

Special thanks to Sebastian Hasani Paramo & everyone at the journal for including my work in such a solid issue!

See you Friday!

José