Benjamin Garcia is a community health specialist who provides HIV /HCV / STD and opioid overdose prevention education to higher risk communities throughout New York's Finger Lakes region. He had the honor of being the 2017 Latin@ Scholar at the Frost Place and the 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in, among others, the American Poetry Review, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Lambda Literary, Best New Poets 2016, and Gulf Coast.

Books by Benjamin Garcia:

Other poems on the web by Benjamin Garcia:
"Le Daria Mis Pulmones"
"Anti-Ode to the Man-O-War"
Two poems
"Ode to the Corpse Flower"
"To the Unborn Sibling"
"A Father's Portrait in Styrofoam"
"Eye of the Hurricane"

Benjamin Garcia's Website.

Benjamin Garcia on Twitter.

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