Vincente Perez is a poet and scholar working at the intersection of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and digital culture. He is a PhD Candidate in the Performance Studies program and a Poetry and the Senses Fellow at UC Berkeley (2021). His debut poetry chapbook, "Other Stories to Tell Ourselves" is available now (Newfound). Their poems have appeared in Obsidian, Poet Lore, (De)Cypher, Honey Literary, Poetry.onl, Snarl Journal, and many others.

Other poems on the web by Vincente Perez:
"I'm On a Therapist Queue"
"A Long Time Ago"
"Fractals / Fractions"

Vincente Perez's Website.

About Other Stories to Tell Ourselves:

"The poems in Other Stories To Tell Ourselves are working overtime on the level of craft and audacity. Within its 29 pages, Vincente G. Perez explores colonization (how it affected black and brown people when it happened and how it affects us now), mental health ('I turned my pen / outwards when asked to turn in') and the role of poetry in the times we're living in, while masterfully using form, metaphor, voice, and repetition. At times, I found myself audibly saying 'mmm' when seemingly-simple, weighty statements showed up exactly when I needed them ('I put a punch down on a page call it a poem'). At other times, I was both shaking my head at all the things that human beings have been subjected to ('they drowned my home —a Christian baptism') and impressed with the intentional usage of language that Perez has clearly honed after time spent working with words. This book makes me want to continue calling out the abnormal things we've come to normalize—like America's denial of its racist and bloody history—via foolishly good storytelling and lines, as Perez has done here."
—KB Brookins