José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, the co-author of the book of poems Home Court, and the co-host of the poetry podcast, the Poetry Gods. A winner of fellowships from Poets House, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, & the Conversation Literary Festival, his work has been published in the BreakBeat Poets, the Chicago Tribune, the Adroit Journal, & Hyperallergic, among other places. His first book, Citizen Illegal, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books. He is from ...
