José Olivarez is an author, poet and educator from Calumet City, Illinois, U.S.[1] His first full collection of poetry is Citizen Illegal, published by Haymarket Books. Citizen Illegal was shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[2] His second poetry collection Promises of Gold, with a Spanish translation by David Ruano, was published by Macmillan Publishers.
Education and early life edit
Jose Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, and he graduated from Harvard University.[1]
Career and writing edit
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] MacMillan Publishers released his second collection, Promises of Gold, in 2023. He is co-editor, along with Willie Perdomo and Felicia Chavez, of the 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 edit
- Promises of Gold, Macmillan Publishers, 2023 ISBN 9781250878496
- Citizen Illegal, Haymarket Books, 2018 ISBN 978-1608469543
- The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Haymarket Books, 2020 ISBN 9781642591293
References edit
- ^ a b Steinkopf-Frank, Hannah. "Chicago poet José Olivarez builds his own world in debut book 'Citizen Illegal'". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
- ^ a b "Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
- ^ a b "José Olivarez". Poetry Foundation. 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
- ^ "The Top Five Featuring José Olivarez". Young Chicago Authors. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
- ^ "La poesía, imaginar respuestas". El Heraldo de México (in Mexican Spanish). 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
- ^ "Emerging Poets Fellowship Recipients". Poets House. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
- ^ "5 young poets each receive awards of $25,000". AP NEWS. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
- ^ "José Olivarez". Poets House. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
- ^ Sutton, Rebecca (2018-02-21). "A Youth Festival Where Poetry Is Louder than a Bomb". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
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