Alberto Ríos
@AlbertoRiosAZ
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Poet Laureate of Arizona :: Regents' Professor of English at ASU :: Director, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Chandler, AZ
Joined March 2014
Very proud of my son Joaquin Rios, the new executive director of the Arizona Education Association. Congratulations, congratulations!!!.
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Very happy to announce my forthcoming book of poems from Copper Canyon Press, Every Sound is Not a Wolf
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Very happy to be included in the New Yorker's anthology:
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Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czesław Miłosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings,...
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Honored to be today's "Poem of the Day" from the Academy of American Poets.
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Poem-a-Day is the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 250 new, previousl
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"When the dead come back to visit—a ghost, a breeze, a voice, the back of a head in a crowd—we remember somebody in that instant. That is what rhyme is in a poem, hearing a familiar sound, welcoming back what we thought was gone. Death does not like poems, which keep it from. .
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Here is another quite timely interview and story I did with El Periódico in Barcelona, Spain.
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EL PERIÓDICO visita Nogales, un municipio fronterizo entre EEUU y México para conocer el impacto, no siempre negativo, que tienen los inmigrantes que cruzan el muro, y el temor de parte de la...
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Wonderfully timely interview with Stéphane Baillargeon of the Canadian newspaper Le Devoir:
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Alberto Ríos, poète majeur de l’Arizona né à Nogales de parents migrants, parle de la frontière comme d’une zone floue.
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RT @asuEnglish: A U.S. congressional delegation recently met with Mexico's President-elect @Claudiashein, whom they presented with a book o….
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Sen. Mark Kelly and Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona were part of a congressional delegation that discussed migration, water issues and nearshoring.
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Taking Your Olympic Measure .This may be timely.
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Think of the records you have held:
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Thank you Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen for this wonderful episode of Poetry for All:
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Poetry For All · Episode
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Some nice news to share:
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New York, NY (June 6, 2024)—The Academy of American Poets, a
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"Day of the Refugios" by Alberto Ríos: Arizona State University (ASU) via @YouTube Nice to read this for Hispanic Heritage Month at ASU.
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