Book No. 6. Finally a novelist. 🐸 So grateful to hold this object thanks to @flowersongpress.bsky.social and @edwardvidaurre.bsky.social for extraordinary belief. And to every friend, bookseller, librarian and reader who's helped put me here.

Reading #poems alongside & in conversation with Carmen Calatayud (my FlowerSong Press mate) at The Twig was the most fun. Volleying poets are the best poets.

Family business over the weekend at @barnesandnoble.com in Corpus Christi, TX (my first hometown). Signed some copies of Hispanic Sonnets and found a book written by a maternal relative (Early Tejano Ranching by Andrés Sáenz, @tamupress.bsky.social). A privilege. ✊

Thanks to @petrichorlit.bsky.social, again, for trusting my poems. Two new ones today in Vol. 27, including a list poem that sees me better than the rest. Beautiful company, beautiful art. Happy National Poetry Month -- write that thing.

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A victory for Literature. Happy pub day to one of our finest surrealists, period. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

We have new flash fiction up today by Alex Z. Salinas. Check it out on the site, now!

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Letter in the 11/17/24 edition of the @expressnewsopinion.bsky.social. 📚

Originally published in petrichor 21 😍

Oh, y'know, just your standard Q&A poem on The Slowdown! www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024...

TRASH POEMS is here! June 2021 - January 2023—writing against the void. Took many faces and pages to get here. Thank you for believing, Karen Tardiff. Book No. 5.

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Super honored to have my poem from Hispanic Sonnets nominated alongside some heavy hitters. Every day, a privilege.

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