TEN YEARS AFTER MY MOM DIES I DANCE The second time I learned I could take the pain my six-year-old niece —with five cavities humming in her teeth— lead me by the finger to the foyer and t…
Persea will publish my new book in 2016
I’m extremely happy to announce that Persea Books will publish my new collection of poems, Brooklyn Antediluvian, (probably) in 2016. This will be my fourth full-length book working with my editor, Gabriel Fried; Gabe and I go back to 1999, when he published poems of mine in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. When few houses knew, let alone published, poems at the simultaneous intersection of traditional literary modes and hip hop and immigrant lit and … and … Gabe believed there was a place on the shelves for Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003), My American Kundiman (2006), and Boneshepherds (2011). Persea published them all and I’m truly grateful.
More news coming about the book. I’ll post it here.