Antiode for Gentrification
Barrioization
Second Ode to Gentrification
We Carry Our Geography With Us 2
This Poem is a Purple House
Rodney Gomez is a poet and urbanist. His books include Arsenal with Praise Song (Orison Books, 2021), recipient of the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for best book of poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award, and Geographic Tongue (Pleiades Press, 2020), winner of Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series. His other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellowship from Yale, and a De Groot Foundation grant. A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, Gomez was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of McAllen, Texas. He serves as an advisory editor for FlowerSong Press, where he founded the Bougainvillea Prize to honor working class poets or collections for/about the working class.
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