Here's the link to my poem in RHINO 2014:

http://rhinopoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/rodriguez_rhino2014.pdf

A great big thank you to Houston Community College for inviting me to read on April 21, 2014.  I look forward to this visit.  Very excited.

Con gratitud II

Thank you to the amazing Sean Thomas Dougherty for supporting Backlit Hour, for his great big heart:

http://www.thethepoetry.com/2013/12/thirteen-of-the-best-poetry-collections-for-2013-books-that-will-sustain-a-lifetime-and-another-and-another/

Con gratitud

Thank you to Sandra Cisneros for her wonderful work and for her support.

For counting Backlit Hour among her favorite books of 2013:

http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Writers-favorite-books-of-2013-5063365.php

Another book rec

Body, Remember: A Memoir

Thank you, Kenny Fries.

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Remember-Memoir-Lesbian-Autobiographies/dp/0299190544/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1396755333&sr=8-5&keywords=body+remember

Book Rec.

Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette

Brilliant.

http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Man-Story-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060595647/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396755271&sr=8-1&keywords=Becoming+a+Man+half+a+life+story

Okay, last one. I promise.

Look for a new poem in issue 21 of Memorious.

Here's the link to one of my new poems:

...aaaaaand even more!

Check out two poems of mine forthcoming in the special 10th anniversary issue of the wonderful and illuminating upstreet.  Also out later this year.

More News

Be on the lookout for an essay of mine in the forthcoming anthology Others Will Enter the Gates, a collection of essays by immigrant poets in America.  GREAT list of contributors.  Out later this year from Black Lawrence Press!

I'm still here!!!

Check out my new poem in the 2014 issue of RHINO out April 6!