Sample Publications

Poems:

• Forthcoming: “My Father’s Roque,” and “Still Life of Roque, 1975.” Huizache. Issue 10. 2023.
• “Bragging Stones.” Writing the Land: Windblown II. Northfield MA: Nature Culture. 2022.
• “Even Then That Dog.” Here. 2022 Issue. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
• “The Man of the House,” and “Reading a Manual.” Nat. Brut. Issue 15. Fall 2021.
• “And Then I Read About.” Waking Up the Earth. Grayson Press. 2021. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
• “My Father, A Reader.” Connecticut River Review. 2021 Issue.
• “Middle School Tremain.” I Sing: The Body Poems about Body and Image. Edited by Rene Saldana, Jr. Juventud Press. 2021.
• “Shopping for Blouses,” and “Third World Worms.” Boston Review Special Issue on Ancestors. 2021.
• “Charlotte.” 2020 Connecticut Literary Anthology. September 2020. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
• “Conrad’s Heart.” The Chachalaca Review. June 2020.
• “Another Master: Reading Dante’s Canto I,” and “Lust in the Projects: Dante’s Circle II.” Here: A Poetry Journal. 2018.
• “Lines Breaking.” Lines Breaking: The Central American Refugee Crisis. Featured Poem for  special issue titled after and featuring my poem. 2018.
• “Scene with Pancho, The Cisco Kid (1950-1956).” The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Eds, Leticia Hernández Linares, Rubén Martínez, and Héctor Tobar. Sylmar: Tia Chucha Press. 2017.
• “Elvis in the Inner City.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Kelly J. Mays. 12th ed. New  York: Norton, 2016. Reprinted from Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora and Arts and Letters. Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 2006.
• “Scene with Ricardo Montalban, Fantasy Island (1977-1984).” Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Issue 4, November 2016.
• “Back with Cantinflas: Ahi esta el detalle (1940),” “Scene with Marcelino Sanchez, The Warriors (1979),” and “Scene with Walk Proud (1979).” Kweli Journal. June 2016.
• “Scene from the Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.” Codex Journal. 25 June 2015.
• “On a Field Trip to Florence Griswold.” Lay Bare the Canvas: New England Poets on Art. Beatrice Lazarus, Editor. Providence: The Poetry Loft. 2014.
• “Scene with Dolores Del Rio,” and “Scene from Los Olvidados.” Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry. San Salvador: Kalina Press. 2014.
• “Hollow Shells Revisited.” Paterson Literary Review. Issue #40/2012-2013.
• “I couldn’t for a teenaged bully’s death.” Bullying: Replies Rebuttals, Confessions and Catharsis. Magdalena Gomez and Maria Luisa Arroyo, eds. New York: Skyhorse
  Publishing. 2012.
• “Toys Made of Rock,” “Lines Breaking,” and “Dark Cinderella.” Quercus Review:
  Without Camels: A Caravan of Latino Writing. Summer 2010.
• “At the Obituary Interview,” and “Dirtied Gauzes,” Naugutuck River Review. Winter 2010.
• “After the Honduras-El Salvador Soccer War of 1969,” “Brown University Librarian Strike—1990,” and “i couldn’t for a teenaged bully’s death.” Acentos Review. December 2008.
• “Fleeing from Work,” “Football for the First Time,” and “The Art of Flipping.” Ocho. Number 15. Special Issue on Latino Poets, edited by Francisco Aragon. December 2007.
• “Sociology 101: Essay on Illegal Immigration.” The Teacher’s Voice. Spring 2006, Volume 2, Number 1.
• “In the Company of Books” and “The Thanksgiving of No Mas.” Palabra: A Journal of Hispanic/Latino Literary Art. August 2006.
• “A Colleague Thinks Ethnic Poetry is Easy to Write.” The Leaflet. Winter 2006.
• “Stealing Shakespeare.” Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction & Poetry
  by Multicultural Writers. Rattlecat Press, 2003. “A Striped Basilisk Lecture.” The Leaflet. Vol. 102, Number 2, Spring 2003.
• “Lola’s Pupusa Stand.” Colere: A Journal of Cultural Exploration. 2002.
• “Nantucket Schools.” Nantucket: A Collection. White Fish Press, 2001
• “Caribbean Fresco.” Calabash. September, 2000.
• “Signs of El Salvador.” Melting Trees Review, Winter, 1996. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.

Essays and Other Critical Work:

• “Diversity as a Matter of the Heart.” U.S. Naval Institute. August 2021.
• Judge. 2022 Connecticut Book Awards for Poetry.
• “American Dirt and Where We Can’t Forget to Point the Finger.” Latino Rebels. 30 January, 2020.
• “Why Including Latinos Matters.” CT Latino News. 2 April, 2019.
• “College Protesters: Picking Up Where Others Won’t.” Latino Rebels. 15 March, 2017.
• “These Are Children Struggling to Our Border.” Op-Ed. Hartford Courant. 18 July, 2014.
• “Hispanic Heritage Hypocrisy.” Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. 19 October 2009, Volume 10, Number 2.
• “Read ‘Em or Weep.” NPR.org. 21 November 2005.
• Entries in Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature, on Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz,
  Martin Espada, Oscar Hijuelos, and Judith Ortiz Cofer. Greenwood Press. 2005.
• “The Bilingual Conundrum.” All Things Considered. National Public Radio. October 6, 2005.
• “Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word.” The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. 16  June 2003. Volume 13, number 18.
• “Book Review of Jose Can You See: Latinos On and Off Broadway.” MELUS: The
  Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Winter 2002.
• “Book Review of Migrant Song.” College Literature. June, 1999.
• “Breaking the Silence: Discussing Race and Ethnicity in the Classroom,” The Teaching Professor. May, 1998.
• “Homecoming: O’Neill’s New London in Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” New England
  Quarterly, September, 1993.
• 2006-Present: Founder and Editor of LatinoStories.Com, includes book reviews: Conjuro by Xanath Caraza; Dad, Me and Muhammad Ali by Felix Manuel Rodriguez; Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar; Grandma’s Chocolate by Mara Price; Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes; Mr. Spic Goes to Washington by Ilan Stavans; Finding Mañana by Mirta Ojito; Lavando La Dirty Laundry by Natalia Trevino; Red Leather Gloves by B.V. Olguin; The Saint of Santa Fe by Silvio Sirias; The Smell of Old Lady Perfume by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz; The Heiress of Water by Sandra Rodriguez Barron; Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta; Teeth by Aracelis Girmay; Unfinished Portrait by Luivette Resto; What Can You Do With a Rebozo? By Carmen Tafolla; What the Tide Brings by Xanath Caraza.