José Olivarez is an author, poet and educator from Calumet City, Illinois, U.S.[1] His first full collection of poetry is Citizen Illegal (2018, Template:ISBN), published by Haymarket Books. Citizen Illegal was shortlisted for the $75,000 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[2]
Education and early life[]
Jose Olivarez the son of Mexican immigrants, graduated from Harvard University.[1]
Career and writing[]
Olivarez's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Poetry Magazine, among others.[3] In 2014, he co-authored the collection Home Court.[4] Haymarket Books published his first full collection, Citizen Illegal, in 2018. Citizen Illegal was shortlisted for the $75,000 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[2] He is co-editor, along with Willie Perdomo and Felicia Chavez, of the forthcoming anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext.[5]
He has received fellowships from several organizations, including a 2016 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship[6] and a 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.[7]
Olivarez worked for the writing and education organizations Urban Word in New York[8] and Young Chicago Authors, which produces the youth poetry festival, Louder than a Bomb.[9] Olivarez co-hosts the podcast The Poetry Gods.[3]
Works[]
- Citizen Illegal, Haymarket Books, 2018 Template:ISBN
- The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Haymarket Books, 2020 Template:ISBN
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Steinkopf-Frank, Hannah. "Chicago poet José Olivarez builds his own world in debut book 'Citizen Illegal'". https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/ct-redeye-jose-olivarez-poet-citizen-illegal-20180808-story.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". 2019-01-15. https://pen.org/2019finalists/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "José Olivarez" (in en-us). 2018-09-21. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jose-olivarez.
- ↑ "The Top Five Featuring José Olivarez" (in en). https://youngchicagoauthors.org/blog/the-top-five-featuring-jose-olivarez.
- ↑ "La poesía, imaginar respuestas" (in es-MX). 2019-04-03. https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/artes/la-poesia-imaginar-respuestas/.
- ↑ "Emerging Poets Fellowship Recipients". https://poetshouse.org/programs-events/emerging-poets-fellowship-at-poets-house/emerging-poets-fellowship-alumni/.
- ↑ "5 young poets each receive awards of $25,000". 2019-08-27. https://apnews.com/1abfa3ae5ae84bc1adec9d515bd1372b.
- ↑ "José Olivarez". https://poetshouse.org/profile/jos-olivarez/.
- ↑ Sutton, Rebecca (2018-02-21). "A Youth Festival Where Poetry Is Louder than a Bomb" (in en). National Endowment for the Arts. https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2018/youth-festival-where-poetry-louder-bomb.
External links[]
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- José Olivarez
- Citizen Illegal
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