Juan Pérez |
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The March Selected Poet is Juan Pérez Please feel free to email Juan at: gotobulldog87@yahoo.com |
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SHAKES-FEAR: A ZOMBIE ZONNET HERD: A ZOMBIE ZONNET Herd mentality, a precocious set Do the cows feel the same for the green grass-- The stench of fresh, uncleansed, unsettled flesh UNMASKED: A ZOMBIE ZONNET are you smarter than a zombie, I ask are you smarter than a zombie, I ask are you smarter than a zombie, I ask are you smarter than a zombie, I ask A SONNET FOR ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE MACABRE: NO. 15 This is the pot of immorality This is the pot of immorality This is the pot of immorality This is the pot of immorality |
Juan Manuel Pérez, a Mexican-American poet of indigenous descent and the current Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas (2019-2020), is the author of Another Menudo Sunday (2007), O’ Dark Heaven: A Response to Suzette Haden Elgin’s Definition of Horror (2009), WUI: Written Under the Influence of Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. (2011), Live From La Pryor: The Poetry of Juan Manuel Perez: A Zavala Country Native Son, Volume 1 (2014), and Sex, Lies, and Chupacabras (2015), as well as the co-editor of The Call Of The Chupacabra (2018). He is the 2011-2012 San Antonio Poets Association Poet Laureate and the Lone Star State’s only El Chupacabras Poet Laureate (For Life). The former Gourd Dancer for the Memphis Tia Piah Big River Clan Warrior Society is also a Pushcart Prize Nominee as well as a SEATTAH Scholar (Striving For Excellence And Accountability in The Teaching Of Traditional American History) through the University Of Dallas. Juan is a ten-year Navy Corpsman/Combat Marine Medic with experience in the 1991 Persian Gulf War with the 2nd Marines and the 1992 Hurricane Andrew Relief Marine Air Group Task Force. This two-time Teacher of the Year, along with his wife, Malia (a three-time Teacher of the Year), is a co-founder of The House of the Fighting Chupacabras Press. Currently, Juan worships his Creator, teaches public high school history, writes poetry, and chases chupacabras in the Texas Coastal Bend Area. His latest collection, Screw the Wall! and Other Brown People Poems, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Books.
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