A Short History of Monsters Awarded the Miller Williams Prize

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Writer of Poems, Fiction, Non-Fiction

Follow My Blog, Shenandoah Breakdown

Writer of Poems, Fiction, Non-Fiction

Follow My Blog, Shenandoah Breakdown

About Me

WRITINGS

My Background

WRITINGS

Mandy at the End of the World

In Proclamation to the Emperors of Agony: Notes on Bart Plantenga’s List Full

Written in Arlington

Singing In The Dark : A Global Anthology of Poetry Under Lockdown

Blog - Shenandoah Breakdown

Poetry Daily

The Margins (Asian-American Writers Workshop)

Verse Daily

Salon - My Confederate Town

Bomb - Two Poems

The Weekli

Mandy at the End of the World

In Proclamation to the Emperors of Agony: Notes on Bart Plantenga’s List Full

Written in Arlington

Singing In The Dark : A Global Anthology of Poetry Under Lockdown

Blog - Shenandoah Breakdown

Poetry Daily

The Margins (Asian-American Writers Workshop)

Verse Daily

Salon - My Confederate Town

Bomb - Two Poems

The Weeklings - Essays

Vox Populi - Poems and essays

Split This Rock - Poems and video

Sensitive Skin - A Life of Uncontrollable Urges (or Tourettes's and the Writing Life)

Poetry Spot (video) - New York City Marathon (directed by Joel Blumsack)

Revolting News (video) - Giant Steps (The True Story of How the Fugs Came About)

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About

My Background

WRITINGS

"Strangers at the Door: Robert Gibb, Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Jose Padua" by Michael Simms

"The Poet Who Hated Poetry But Wrote It Anyway: An Interview with Jose Padua" by bart plantenga

"The Very American Poetry of Jose Padua" by Michael Simms

My Background

My manuscript, A Short History of Monsters, was chosen by former poet laureate Billy Collins as the winner of the 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Arkansas Press in March, 2019. My poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Bomb, Salon, Alternet, The Weeklings, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, Unbearables, Crimes of the Beats, Up is Up, but So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, and many other journals and anthologies. I've written features and reviews for NYPress, Washington City Paper, the Brooklyn Rail, and the New York Times and read my work at the Lollapalooza Festival, CBGBs, the Knitting Factory, the Public Theater, the Living Theater, the Split This Rock poetry festival, the Nuyorican Poets’ Café, the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, the Black Cat Club, the Washington Project for the Arts, and many other venues. I live in Washington, DC with my wife, the poet Heather Davis, and our daughter and son. I'm at work on a memoir.

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