from Jailbreak of Sparrows (forthcoming, April 2025)
"Gonzo"
"Your Card is the King of Rats"
"The City Wears a Coat to Bed"
"Banquo's Ghost in Paterson"
"Officer Mark Dial, Who Shot Eddie Irizarry, Will Be Fired for Insubordination"
"The Bastard Son of King Levinsky"
"The Monster in the Lake"
"He Could Sing, but He Couldn't Fly"
"Love Song of the Bat with Vertigo"
"Florencia, Again and Again"
"My Beloved the Blasphemer Causes a Scuffle at the Bar"
"The Iguanas Skitter Through the Cemetery by the Sea"
"Your Card is the King of Rats"
"The City Wears a Coat to Bed"
"Banquo's Ghost in Paterson"
"Officer Mark Dial, Who Shot Eddie Irizarry, Will Be Fired for Insubordination"
"The Bastard Son of King Levinsky"
"The Monster in the Lake"
"He Could Sing, but He Couldn't Fly"
"Love Song of the Bat with Vertigo"
"Florencia, Again and Again"
"My Beloved the Blasphemer Causes a Scuffle at the Bar"
"The Iguanas Skitter Through the Cemetery by the Sea"
from Floaters
"Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge"
"Floaters"
"Not For Him the Fiery Lake of the False Prophet"
"Standing on the Bridge at Dolceacqua"
"Aubade with Concussion"
"Flan"
"Letter to My Father"
"Floaters"
"Not For Him the Fiery Lake of the False Prophet"
"Standing on the Bridge at Dolceacqua"
"Aubade with Concussion"
"Flan"
"Letter to My Father"
from Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
"Vivas to Those Who Have Failed"
"The Right Foot of Juan de Oñate"
"How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"
"Here I Am"
"Castles for The Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio"
"Mad Love"
"Haunt Me"
"El Moriviví"
"The Right Foot of Juan de Oñate"
"How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"
"Here I Am"
"Castles for The Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio"
"Mad Love"
"Haunt Me"
"El Moriviví"
from The Trouble Ball
"The Trouble Ball"
"Blessed Be the Truth-Tellers"
"Isabel's Corrido"
"The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi"
"The Playboy Calendar and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám"
"Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass"
"Blessed Be the Truth-Tellers"
"Isabel's Corrido"
"The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi"
"The Playboy Calendar and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám"
"Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass"
from The Republic of Poetry
"The Republic of Poetry"
"Not Here"
"Something Escapes the Bonfire"
"General Pinochet at the Bookstore"
"The Poet's Coat"
"You Got a Song, Man"
"The Face on the Envelope"
"Advice to Young Poets"
"Return"
"Not Here"
"Something Escapes the Bonfire"
"General Pinochet at the Bookstore"
"The Poet's Coat"
"You Got a Song, Man"
"The Face on the Envelope"
"Advice to Young Poets"
"Return"
from Alabanza: New & Selected Poems (1982-2002)
"Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
"Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo"
"En la calle San Sebastián"
"The Poet in the Box"
"Imagine the Angels of Bread"
"Coca-Cola and Coco Frío"
"Federico's Ghost"
"Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits"
"Mariano Explains Yanqui Colonialism to Judge Collings"
"My Cockroach Lover"
"Sleeping on the Bus"
"My Name is Espada"
"Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo"
"En la calle San Sebastián"
"The Poet in the Box"
"Imagine the Angels of Bread"
"Coca-Cola and Coco Frío"
"Federico's Ghost"
"Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits"
"Mariano Explains Yanqui Colonialism to Judge Collings"
"My Cockroach Lover"
"Sleeping on the Bus"
"My Name is Espada"