Poetry (and other publications)
Artist and photo credit: Angela Amoranto
Publications & Exhibits
- 30 Poems in 30 Days Project for Tupelo Press (January 2020).
- “The False Mirror” in riverbabble 34 (January 2019).
- 30 Poems in 30 Days Project for Tupelo Press (September 2018).
- 30 Poems in 30 Days Project for Tupelo Press (August 2017).
- "The Siren" in Madwoman et cetera 1 (June 2017).
- "Strange Instinct." Broadside Exhibit at San Diego State University (December 2016, February 2017, May 2017). Artwork below.
- "Skin," "Strange Instinct," and "She Imagines the Lightness of Being" in the Magee Park Poets 2017 Anthology.
- Selections from Canti di un luogo abbandonato on Poetry International Online. Italian translations.
- "Songs from an Abandoned World" in Poetry International 22/23 (March 2017). Italian translation.
- "Seeds" in The Skinny Poetry Journal (February 2017).
- "Butterfly Child.” Broadside Exhibit at San Diego State University (May 2016).
- "Suppressed" in the San Diego Poetry Annual 2015-2016.
- "This Old Earth," "After Gunshots," and "Americans Watch the Beheading of Kenji Goto." Broadside Exhibit at San Diego State University (December 2015). Artwork below.
- "Come Rain or Snow," "The Eye Is the Eye," and "Sunset Lovers.” Broadside Exhibit at San Diego State University (December 2014). Artwork below.
Broadsides
Poetry International and SDSU Typography II students collaborate each semester, merging art, typography, and poetry. The following are my poems made into broadsides.
Artist: Mariel Lopez-Cotero
Improvisation
The following collaboration was originally performed as a performance art piece. The timing of the poetry and music was improvised by me speaking and composer Alex Levy playing. The poem was distributed to the audience and they were invited during a second play-through of the music to contribute to the improvisation by either calling out a line of the poem or to speak out anything else that came to mind in association with rain or otherwise.
Composer: Alex Levy
Book Reviews, Interviews, etc.
Interview with Rob Carney on Facts + Figures (Harpy Hybrid Review, June 2020).
"Poems from Banned Countries" ed. by Jahleh Ghanbari, Ilya Kaminksy, and Janel Spencer (Poetry International Online, June 2017).
"Butterfly Knocking on Our Window: A Review of Athanor & Other Pohems" (Hyperion, Volume IX No. 2, October 2015).
"Poems from Banned Countries" ed. by Jahleh Ghanbari, Ilya Kaminksy, and Janel Spencer (Poetry International Online, June 2017).
"Butterfly Knocking on Our Window: A Review of Athanor & Other Pohems" (Hyperion, Volume IX No. 2, October 2015).
Editing Work
Harpy Hybrid Review Issue #1 (June 2020).
Poetry International 22/23 (March 2017).
Lullaby for a Hanged Man by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood (Calypso Editions).
Poetry International 22/23 (March 2017).
Lullaby for a Hanged Man by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood (Calypso Editions).
Education, Influences, Etc.
I received my BA in English Literature with a minor in Italian from the University of Arizona in 2012. I graduated with my MFA in Poetry from San Diego State University in May 2017.
My favorite place to read and discover poetry is the Poetry Center in Tucson, Arizona.
My favorite poets include: Gwendolyn Brooks, Carolyn Forché, Luci Tapahonso, Audre Lorde, Czeslaw Milosz, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Valzhyna Mort, Jack Gilbert, Sappho, Anne Carson, Paul Celan, Robert Desnos, E. E. Cummings, Amy Gerstler, Chelsey Minnis, Rumi, Robert Hass, and Nazim Hikmet.
My favorite fiction and nonfiction writers include Zora Neale Hurston, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mary Shelley, Gabriel García Márquez, and Albert Camus.
My favorite place to read and discover poetry is the Poetry Center in Tucson, Arizona.
My favorite poets include: Gwendolyn Brooks, Carolyn Forché, Luci Tapahonso, Audre Lorde, Czeslaw Milosz, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Valzhyna Mort, Jack Gilbert, Sappho, Anne Carson, Paul Celan, Robert Desnos, E. E. Cummings, Amy Gerstler, Chelsey Minnis, Rumi, Robert Hass, and Nazim Hikmet.
My favorite fiction and nonfiction writers include Zora Neale Hurston, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mary Shelley, Gabriel García Márquez, and Albert Camus.
