Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024) The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025) and Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man (Red Hen Press, 2025). He has been published in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, The Iowa Review, Huizache, Colorado Review, The Missouri Review, The Nation, Poetry, The Progressive, Poets.org, The Southern Review, Sugar House Review, Witness and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has taught creative writing at the University of California at Riverside and online for Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshops, and The Writer's Center. He has been the Poet in Residence at the Carolyn Moore Writers House with Portland Community College. Currently, he is the Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee.

Other poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz in Verse Daily:
February 17, 2023:   "The Fortune-Teller of My Youth" "They are behind you as you sit up against..."
July 5, 2022:   "Quetzalcoatl in the City" "I saw Quetzalcoatl at Panda Express in the city...."
January 24, 2022:   "The Dragon and the Coyote" "A man looked into a mirror, but he didn't recognize himself...."
April 2, 2021:   "The Centaur" "I was ordered to go to hell after I died...."
September 11, 2020:   "The Wall" "A man in a Chicano Batman shirt punched a wall...."
June 21, 2017:   "The Bulldog" "I woke up transformed into a bulldog...."

Other poems on the web by Jose Hernandez Diaz:
"DMV Surf Session"
"Almost Buried"
"Guisados"
"Ode to a California Neck Tattoo"
"El Chacal"
Three poems
"The Last Time I Cried"
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
"The Dragon and the Coyote"
Two poems
Two poems
"The Man and The Antlers"
"Taxi to the Beach"
"The Target"

Jose Hernandez Diaz on Twitter.

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April 29, 2024:   "Not My Country" by Andrew Payton
March 17, 2024:   "How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio
March 15, 2024:   "How to Eat Like a King" by Jane Zwart
March 11, 2024:   "Deer Woman" by Bunkong Tuon
March 7, 2024:   "Caretaker" by Faith Gómez Clark

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