In the midst of an overwhelming time of anguish, rage, grief, growth, and, also, possibility, I’m trying to allow space each day for celebration and gratitude (wherever it might emerge).
Today, I’m grateful for Eduardo C. Corral, Martín Espada, and the team at Platypus Press, who believed in my book Hijito, which just won the Foreword INDIES Gold Medal in Poetry.
I recognize how fraught and complicated any award or recognition of an artistic work can be, but I’m, nevertheless, taking a moment to breathe and toast this moment. And, beyond all else, hoping that this book—reckoning with white supremacy, police violence, & parenthood—offers something catalytic & meaningful to this building resistance.
Here are the finalists:
https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/finalists/2019/poetry/
Here are the medalists in poetry:
https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winners/2019/poetry/
