i'm in today's newspaper!

To Corral, the surrealism and strangeness are that he has been able to forge a career, a life, from the words he struggles to scratch on yellow legal pads and type into his laptop. He sometimes finds himself on a flight, or being feted at a hotel before a reading, and considers the fact that it was his poetry that got him there.


you can pre-order the book here.

moving bits

this friday i'm getting on a plane and flying to nyc. i won't be coming back to the desert for a bit. i'm hoping to stay in nyc til august.
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winter, xmas, spring, and summer.
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why am i going? well, it's been one of my lifelong dreams to live and to write in the big apple.
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i'm going to explore the city, attend poetry readings like crazy, and draft new poems.
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nyc
nyc
nyc
nyc
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oh i just can't wait to walk around. that's my favorite thing. walking til i find a nice cafe. sitting down with a coffee. reading. writing.
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oh my little poems, how can i ever thank you for this gift?
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are you in the city? let's have coffee!
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pinch me.

and the black blossoms are...

Ocean Vuong
Allyson from Boston
RJ Gibson

(I wrote all the names on pieces of paper. Put the pieces in a hat and pulled out three)

Ocean, RJ, and Allyson,

Send me an email and I'll send you a book.

black blossoms give-a-away!!

Black Blossoms, Rigoberto González's third collection of poems, came out last month. The book has already garnered some stellar reviews.

Wanna win a copy? You sure do! Well, you are in luck because I'm giving away three copies of the book.

How do you win a copy? Well, are you cute....Ha, just kidding. I'm not a wilde boy.

Just leave a comment here or on my facebook wall. Say: I am a black blossom and you will be entered in the give-a-away.

Buena suerte!

Manuel Munoz: Interview

Manuel was reared in the small town of Dinuba in California’s Central Valley. He is bold in his writing, shy in manner, a film aficionado. His body cuts a lean muscular form on the sofa. He wears dark jeans and a collared t-shirt. A chiseled jaw, thick raven black hair gelled into spikes, but his eyes are the thing. Large and tapering attractively at the corners, they lure with all the possibilities of the moment. One feels the charm in it.
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Next time I see Manuel I'm going to stare into his eyes and get lost.
Ha.
Ha.
Ha.

R/R

Reading

Rosa Alcalá, Eduardo C. Corral & Aracelis Girmay

Tuesday, Nov 8, 6:00pm
Cambridge, MA
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street.
Harvard Universiy

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Roundtable

Poetry Society of America: Latino/a Poetry Now: Rosa Alcalá, Eduardo C. Corral & Aracelis Girmay:

I enjoyed the roundtable talk with Rosa and Aracelis. I stress and stress about my prose. I pour all I have into my poems; there's not enough mind-matter leftover for interviews. But Rosa and Aracelis write amazing prose. Yeah!