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2024

“Piel Canela” by Los Panchos Plays in the Janitor’s Headset in December Mag (Finalist for the Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize)

A Playlist for Papi Pichón in Largehearted Boy

2023

Summer in Key of Civic in Philadelphia Stories

Relationship to Poetry: In Conversation w/ Dimitri Reyes in It’s Relatable w/ Kari O’Driscoll

Papi Pichón As Rhetorical Device in Mad Poets Society

Papi Pichón Prescribes Bomba in Label Me Latino

Author Spotlight feature in Letras Latinas Blog 2

A Reading List for Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 in CLMP

Book Review by Basia Wilson Identifying a Mixed Flock: Dimitri Reyes’s Papi Pichón

2022

Self Portait as Penny in The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Vol. 15

The Not-Yet-Poet in Journal of NJ Poets

Made in America; A Boy Who Finds His Way; From a Current State of Being; Somewhere, A Boricua Picks Up the Phone in Big Other

Papi Pichón as Rock Dove (Nominated for Best of the Net); 
Papi Pichón Imagines Himself a Masterpiece;
Papi Pichón Shadowboxes With His Legacy; Papi Pichón Navigates an Easterly Wave; Papi Pichón Dances w/ Maria
in A Dozen Nothing

Oye! This is an apartment building ode in Poem-a-Day

Precious Moments in Poetry Daily

Negotiating the Importance of Baseball in The Oakland Review

PuertoMerica; Corona II in Latinx Futurisms Anthology

We’re Still Wailers in World Underground Anthology

2021

So Much Depends Upon the Brown Chair in Red Fez

Corona in Good Cop / Bad Cop: An Anthology (nominated for Pushcart Prize)

Child Support; Dona Maria’s in Action, Spectacle

Precious Moments in Digging Through The Fat (nominated for Pushcart Prize)

2020

On the 7th Day in Re-Casting Masculinity Anthology

We’re Still Wailers in Tribes Magazine

Aubade with Wife Taking Selfie; Neighborhood Watch in Red Fez

The Watchtower in The New Southern Fugitives

When a Roadside Altar Speaks in Moving Words 2020 (selected winner)

How We Is: A Review of We Is by Sami Miranda in Tupelo Quarterly

Ode to the McDonald’s by My House; A Brown Boy High-School Narrative Set to the Twilight Saga in Platform Review

Dental Impressions: An Elegy for My Teacher in The Night Heron Barks

We’re Still Wailers in Acentos Review

Habichuelology in Duende

Headstone, Only Answers That Matter, Memo Written to Park as Whitman in Black Telephone Magazine

3rd Generation in Oxford Review of Books

Winner of the 2020 Digging Press Chapbook Award

Community Spotlight in Digging Through Press

On the 7th Day in Barely South Review

Review of The Ribbon Around the Bomb in Empty Mirror

Review of Wild Invocations in Barrelhouse

2019

A Feather on the Puerto Rican Obituary While Watching a Charlie Brown Christmas in City Brink 

The House Avô’s Build: A Review of Save the Bathwater in Entropy

Papi Pichón and When the World Was Flat in No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First Generation American Poetry

Corona in About Place Journal

Spin Cycle; Martyrdom as Summer School Instruction in Yellow Medicine Review

Kyrie 4’s™; Tire; And You Say Why Here in PoemQuest.com

Locale, Country, and Memory as Self: A Review of paulA neves’ capricornucopia (the dream of the goats) in Borderlands

Tité in Cosmonauts Avenue

Review of The Abuela Stories Project in Run and Tell That Reviews

A Poet Discusses How Puerto Ricans are Black in Philidelphia Says: Black Lives Have Always Mattered

2018

Men’s Cubavera Embroidered XL, Mother Botánica, Man Made Stone Without Working Ears, Gamines in the Street, The Dancer in MOKO Magazine

A Legend Speaks: An Interview with Nuyorican Poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez in Run and Tell That Reviews

Channel in #PoetsforPuertoRico: Kweli Edition

Heartlines in Hinchas de Poesia 

Quota, When the World was Flat, Consulting the Cosmos, Assessment of the Urban Dollar in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora

Spray Cans Like Bread in Pilgrimmage 

papi pichón in Verity LA

Commiserate me in Love Like Salt Anthology

Our Daily Becoming in Entropy 

On Video Playback/ Vida, In the Chopshop: 100 Names, (insert family member here) in AnomalyRadical Avant Garde Folio

On Development in Acentos Review 

For Armando in Yes

2017

1993 Toyota Corolla, I am here/I am orchid in Arcturus

Pegao in Kweli Journal

Plasticbag in Alluvian

What if I fed you good food in Eunoia Review 

Bullets in my Back in Slice Literary 2017 Poetry Award 

Figuring / Figurando in West Orange Hispanic Heritage Month 

I hear those fights throughout the night in Peeking Cat Anthology 

Real California Milk in Naugatuck River Review

Explaining Agoraphobia to Myself in Maudlin House 

You Left the Neighborhood, Esmeralda in English in Acentos Review 

When Your Anxieties Become People, Chained to Me, Machine, Kick, Push in Rigorous

Zeus and Donald Trump in a Locker Room in HOWL 

I Need My Pills in NJTV 

Born with Bullets in my Back in Radius