Natasha Trethewey—Pulitzer Prize winner and two-term United States Poet Laureate—has selected my manuscript from nearly 900 submissions as the winner of the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, which means:
my debut full-length poetry collection Fractures will be published this fall by the University of Wisconsin Press!
I’ll be giving periodic updates on my publication journey with this book (cover reveal, tour dates, blurbs, & more) via my Twitter and Instagram.
I mentioned it quite a bit on tour this fall but it bears repeating: Hijito is a chapbook that gives a glimpseinto a much more expansive and ambitious vision. Fractures is that vision, that project, that culmination of 21 years of me writing and growing.
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to share this book with you. Cover reveal and so much more to come soon…
but for now: thank you for supporting my journey and believing in me and my work.
I am so grateful,
Carlos
