Rodney Gomez
Rodney Gomez is a poet and urbanist whose recent collections include Arsenal with Praise Song, recipient of the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for best poetry book from the Texas Institute of Letters, and Geographic Tongue, winner of the Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series. His work appears in Poetry, New England Review, The Gettysburg Review, Denver Quarterly, Rattle, North American Review, and other journals. A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, Gomez was an Academy of American Poets Fellow, a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at Yale, and 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of McAllen, Texas.