POETRY "I try to hone a poem invested in memory and imagination to arrive at some deeper question of truth. ...I attempt to create threads that feel familiar, nostalgic even, but that still long for something speculative."
Ángel García and the Personal Research Method
Ángel García
Ángel García, the proud son of Mexican immigrants, is the author of Indifferent Cities (Tupelo Press, forthcoming), winner of a Helena Whitehill Book award and Teeth Never Sleep (University of Arkansas Press), recipient of a CantoMundo Poetry Prize, an American Book Award, and finalist for a PEN America Open Book Award and a Kate Tufts Award. His work has been published in the American Poetry Review, McSweeney's, Crab Orchard Review, Huizache, The Acentos Review, and most recently in Michigan Quarterly Review and The Adroit Journal. The recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell, Ángel currently teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
