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David Joez Villaverde

David Joez Villaverde holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. A CantoMundo fellow, he has received honors from the American Academy of Poets, Best New Poets, The Hopwood Awards, and Black Warrior Review. His work is forthcoming in AGNI, FENCE, and Fugue. He lives in New York and can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com

Poetry

Winter 2024

Sprezzatura

By David Joez Villaverde

The Kenyon Review · “Sprezzatura” by David Joez Villaverde I am sitting shotgun in the dualie, Malcom turning up O.T. Genasis, the banger that made him famous, the one I’ve […]