Poet
Publications & Prizes
Anthologies:
Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 2000)
, Best of 1999 (Beacon Press, 1999)
, Best American Poetry (Scribner, 1995)
Books:
The Enemy (Duke University Press, 2007)
, The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003)
, Landscape with Human Figure (Duke University Press, 2002)
, Diva (Duke University Press, 1999)
, The Desire to Heal (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997)
, What the Body Told (Duke University Press, 1996)
, The Other Man Was Me (Arte Público Press, 1994)
Journals:
Commonweal
, Paris Review
, The Nation
, The New Republic
, The Progressive
, , Yale Review
Prizes won:
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (poetry),
National Poetry Series,
Lambda Literary Award,
National Book Critics Circle Award (finalist),
Sheila Motton Book Prize,
May Sarton Award,
Paterson Poetry Prize (finalist)
More Information
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Identifies as:
Cuban American, LGBTQ, Latino/Latina/Latinx
Prefers to work with:
Adults, LGBTQ, Illness/Wellness
Fluent in:
Spanish
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Last update: Mar 19, 2010