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William Archila

William Archila was awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard Fellowship. He is the author of The Art of Exile, which was awarded the International Latino Book Award, and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology, which received the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize. He has been published in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, AGNl, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, and the anthologies The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry, and The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. He lives in Los Angeles, on Tongva land. He has work forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Southern Indiana Review, The Georgia Review, Salamander, and Guesthouse.

Poetry

Winter 2024

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By William Archila

The Kenyon Review · “[]” by William Archila My little Salvi flower. My little destroyer. My illegal status remains a cage guarded by thieves. My body a bore beneath a […]

Poetry

Winter 2024

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By William Archila

The Kenyon Review · “[]” by William Archila Little Salvi, little superstar, it’s been lonely without a mother of fiction. It’s been lonely to be discovered with a silver tongue. […]

Poetry

Winter 2024

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By William Archila

The Kenyon Review · “[]” by William Archila Cipitio, everybody wants something from the land, you know that & everybody wants something from the deep as well, there’s a stream […]