Diego Vázquez Jr

Poet ~ Novelist ~ Slam Poet ~ Sidewalk Poet ~ Storyteller ~ Abuelito ~

Diego Vazquez, Jr.
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Diego Vázquez Jr         Publications prior to 2009


Saint Paul Almanac                                                                   2008-2009          

Mississippi Mariner

County Lines                                                                                  Fall 2008

Airline Announcement/Border

12 Branches: St. Paul Stories

Coffee House Press/

Friends of the St. Paul Public Library                                      April 2003

Drumvoices Review

On a Northlake with a Brown Girl from Tejas                        Summer/Fall2000

Quand on Aime 

Jimmy et Justine                                                                              November 1999

Éditions Métailié Paris                                                                   July 1999

Éditions Métailié Paris                                                                                                                                                 

River Pigs (editor)                                                                         December 1998

COMPAS/(WAITS) Anthology

Growing Through The Ugly

Henry Holt/Owl Books (paperback)         New York            March 1998

W.W. Norton & Company (1st edition)New York                February 1997

Rooftop JailBirds  (editor)                                                            December 1996

COMPAS/(WAITS) Anthology    

Colors Magazine, Four Colors Productions        

Ningun ser humano, es ilegal                                                      1995

Immigration Faith                                                                           1994

Some Whispers Never Leave                                                       1993

Nineteenth Avenue, The Humphrey Forum/   

Chavez. A Different Way To fight (April)                                1994

Listening To Our Neighbors (January)

Circles, Singers, and Congas (May)                                           1993

Buscando Santos (April)

Speaking in Tongues, The Loft                                            1994

Nam Paso

MPLS/ST. Paul Magazine                                                      1993

Voices of Faith  

A View from the Loft, The Loft

I Will Identify Myself                                                                     1993

Growing Through The Ugly (excerpt)                          1992

On the need to write                                                                       1990

Instant Coffee, Coffee House Press

A simple education early in the morning                              1993

New Chicana/Chicano Writing,

U of Arizona Press                                                                           1993

On the violations of Poetry

Paid green eyes did not cry

No, Clarence, not Kafka, it was the Prince

Greeting a cardinal on the Sonoran Desert

Do You Know Me Now?

Normandale Community College                                              1993

Growing through the Ugly (excerpt)

Visiones de la Raza,

Centro Cultural Chicano                                                                1990

Washing the madness with mad strokes                     

Assimilation Hoboes