Alberto Ríos’s latest publications include a collection of poems, Not Go Away Is My Name (Copper Canyon Press, YEAR), along with a novel, A Good Map of All Things (University of Arizona Press, 2020). A National Book Award finalist, Ríos is Arizona’s inaugural poet laureate and a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Rural Spaces
Fall 2024
Jugando Hoyos
We played a game called Hoyos, that name being what it was,Holes — holes we dug easily in the dirt, into which, from a distance,We tried to roll whatever we had that […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
Mexico, from the Four Last Letters
Some stories arrive as the mysterious tintype of a woman, removed from a box after years. Certainly she is a relative, but no one can say who with clarity any […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
Indentations in the Sugar
As they have no difficulty with walls, Neither do they have the services of a table, So the dead do not stay Longer than twenty minutes, The time taken to […]