Poet | Essayist | Cultural Strategist
I believe dishonesty and poetry
(as I know it) are forever incompatible.
Pablo Miguel Martínez’s collection of poems, Brazos, Carry Me (Kórima Press), received the 2013 PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry. His chapbook, titled Cuent@, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Pablo’s work has received support from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. He is a Co-Founder of CantoMundo, a national retreat-workshop for Latina/o poets. Currently, he is at work on a hybrid-genre memoir.
Praise for Cuent@
In these remarkable poems, Pablo Miguel Martínez stands in solidarity with those whose voices have gone unheard through so much of our history. He demands that we remember those who labored—and continue to labor—“in fields / Where rivulets of sweat / Are the headwaters / Of our fate.” This book couldn’t be more timely.
—Demetria Martinez, author of The Block Captain’s Daughter
Praise for Brazos, Carry Me
Crisp and spare, yet rich and ethereal, these poems are equally at home in Paris or Juárez, comfortable in Spanish or English, at ease in the past or the very present. Martínez’s poems are as delicate as bare branches on the cusp of spring, or dare I say, as honest as the very brazos—the figurative arms—that carry him, and embrace us with poetic splendor and insights into new realms of being.
—Richard Blanco, 2013 Presidential Inauguration Poet, author of Looking for the Gulf Motel
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