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“I pick word-wonder Pablo Miguel Martínez’s Brazos, Carry Me for language that leaps like a Taiwanese acrobat.”
Sandra Cisneros in the San Francisco Chronicle
Where to Read Some of Pablo’s Work
“A Brief History of the Texas Rangers” San Antonio Express-News
“After Viewing a Conceptual Installation at a Southtown Gallery” San Antonio Express-News
“Allerseelen/Aztlan” San Antonio Express-News
“Angel Moreno” BorderSenses VII
“Chuco” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review 30
“Correspondencia,” “Vespers” Comstock Review 17.2
“Cue” San Antonio Express-News
“Destino” Americas Review 14
“Donde cae el sol” Bilingual Review/Revista bilingüe 33.4
“E.S.L.” Harpur Palate 5.2
“Gradual” North American Review 294.5
“The Grotto” New Millennium Writings 17
“Homophone No. 68: Porous” Pilgrimage Magazine 37.2
“La Señora Roosevelt Visits el West Side” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review 5 (reprinted in La Voz de Esperanza)
“Lights Up” Inkwell
“The Luminous City” The Gay & Lesbian Review 14.5
“Praise Song” San Antonio Express-News
“Printer’s Devil” San Antonio Express-News
“Raspado” effing magazine IV
“Recipe” threeline poetry.com 4
“The Saint Maker” San Antonio Express-News
“Splash” The Gay & Lesbian Review 17.6
“Summer Mystery” San Antonio Express-News
“Translation” San Antonio Express-News
“Two” Lodestar Quarterly 15
“Yours, Malinalli” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review 30
“Yours, Sally Hemings” North American Review 294.1
“Verismo.” Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. Cutthroat/Black Earth Institute.
“Adiós, o virgen de Guadalupe—.” Mother Mary Comes to Me. Madville Publishing.
“El Rebozo.” Closet Cases. Et Alia Press.
“Gone Yanaguana.” A Poetic Legacy: 30 Poems for the Tricentennial. City of San Antonio.
“Cosecha.” Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands. Aunt Lute Books.
“Movement.” Cinco de VIA: Five Years of Poetry On the Move. VIA Transit.
“The Other Memory.” Men’s Heartbreak. Mahdessian Press.
Two poems featured on Website of the National Council of Teachers of English, 2012. (“Translation”: 23 April 2012; “This Valley”: 28 April 2012.) www.ncte.org/tyca/poetrymonth)
ALLGO (Austin) | Austin International Poetry Festival | Bihl Haus Gallery (San Antonio) | Bryant Park Summer Series (New York) | Casa Azul Books (New York) | Centro Cultural Aztlan (San Antonio) | Dallas Poets Community (McKinney Ave. Contemporary Art Ctr.) | Decatur Book Festival (GA) | Gemini Ink (San Antonio) | Inprint (Houston) | Katherine Anne Porter House (Kyle, TX) Mexican American Cultural Center (Austin) | Noche de Macondo (San Antonio) | OLLU Poetry Festival (San Antonio) | Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia) | Poetry at Round Top (TX) | San Antonio Poetry Festival | San Antonio Public Library | Southwest School of Art (San Antonio) | Split This Rock/Sunday Series (Washington, DC) | Texas Book Festival-San Antonio | Trinity University (San Antonio) | University of Houston (Houston Poetry Fest) | University of Louisville | The University of Texas at Austin | Writer’s Block Festival (Louisville)
Choreopoem, “Grasp,” performed at Texas Lutheran University’s ArteFest, Nov. 2014.
“At times, we may wonder how Martínez writes, wielding certainly at times a poetic restraint, without his own heart shattering into a million inked words on the paper before him. He is, after all, a highly perceptive observer and scholar of our human frailties and common history.”
Dallie Clark, judge’s citation, PEN 2013 Southwest Book Award for Poetry
I found myself reading certain poems over and over again for their amazing beauty.
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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There’s something about growing up in Texas that breaks your heart.
Whether it’s El Paso, which is my hometown, or San Antonio, where Pablo Miguel Martínez was born and raised, whether it’s Hargill or Houston, something about Texas—the sky, the light, the memory of the dispossessed—presses incessantly on your chest and cracks the shell of your heart.
Brazos, Carry Me, as the title of the book suggests, is a paean to Texas […]; the “brazos” refrain in the title poem, which signifies the river of memory, the embrace of history, echoes throughout the collection with every use of the word “arms,” such as the hidden stories encoded in trees and photographs.
from the Foreward to Brazos, Carry Me by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, scholar and author of Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders
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