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Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa
Originally from Jalisco, Mexico, Osmani is a queer poeta (he/él/they) and a national organizer for immigrant & worker rights.
Currently, my poetry collection titled, “Heartbreak and Spaceships in the Age of Extraterrestrials” was a finalist for the 2024 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize – Announcement link: https://engage.augsburg.edu/howlingbird/
My poetry appeared in an anthology titled “Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out” edited by Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibrán Güido (Cognella Academy Publishing, 2014). I have forthcoming poetry (2024) scheduled for publication in two Chicano/Latinx anthologies in sci-fi titled: “Chicanofuturism Now! Visions of a Raza Future” edited by Scott Russell Duncan, Armando B. Rendón, and Jenny Irizary (Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press) and “Not Your Papi’s Utopia” edited by Sarah Rafael García, Alex Hernández, Sara Rivera, and Matthew David Goodwin (Press TBA).
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Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
My poetry is about vulnerability, love, heartbreak, grief, and social justice.
Poets help us feel and give name and imagery to the little and big things that matter.
Poets are the pulse and conscience of a community. Every social-political movement for social justice requires artists and poets because we are visionary and do futurism and world-building so well. From the moment where our ink meets paper and when we perform it from the tip of our tongues to the eyes and ears that receive it, we build community. We reimagine, reinterpret, and revolutionize everything around us.
Artists and poets are so essential, so long as we exist so do our communities and those that came before us.
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