Dimitri Reyes is a Boricua multidisciplinary artist, content creator, and educator from Newark, New Jersey. Dimitri's book, Every First and Fifteenth (2021) is the winner of the Digging Press 2020 Chapbook Award and his poetry journal, Shadow Work for Poets, is now available on Amazon. Some of his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and you can find more of his writing in Poem-a-Day, Vinyl, Kweli, & Acentos among others. He is also the Marketing & Communications Director at CavanKerry Press.

Other poems on the web by Dimitri Reyes:
"[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.]"
Four poems
"Cuco"
"Precious Moments"

Dimitri Reyes's Website.

About Papi Pichón:

"In Papi Pichón, a son imagines his father as a bird whose wings span the barrios of Newark and New York City and the mountains of Puerto Rico. This book is a love song to the beauty and creativity of survival across geographies and generations. When Dimitri Reyes writes of 'bodies connected through a common wind,' we hear the trade winds but also the ravages of Hurricane María, as well the 'the language of the trombone' in a salsa key that bridges the bomba drum and the hip-hop beat. In the spirit of the legendary Pedro Pietri, Reyes writes searingly about the ravages of empire ('the pain of my flag') and the death and displacement of a people under (crypto-)colonialism, but with a sense of humor and humanity that allows us to imagine the 'last whispers' of our dead and our debt and to find our sovereign swing. This book bleeds with the Boricua histories tattooed on its diasporic heart: from baseball and boxing to factory work and dancing, and from Walter Mercado and the Young Lords to the preparation of Puerto Rican beans (the unforgettably titled 'Habichuelology'). Enter this 'tinderbox of bodies' and you will find flowing lines, rhythmic prose, and an exploration of the possibilities of poetry as 'the artform of nourishment.' Watch this fly poet fly!"
—Urayoán Noel