José Olivarez
José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. A recipient of fellowships from Canto Mundo, Poets House, The Bronx Council on the Arts, The Poetry Foundation, and The Conversation Literary Festival, his work has been published in The BreakBeat Poets, The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, and Hyperallergic, among other places. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, will be released in September 2018 from Haymarket Books. He lives in Chicago.
Work by this author
I Tried To Be A Good Mexican Son
i even went to college. but i studied African American Studies which is not
The Law or The Medicine or The Business. my mom still loved me.
so i invented her sadness & asked her to hold it like a bouquet of fake flowers.
