John Murillo

{{Short description|American poet}}

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John Murillo is an American poet. He is a Cave Canem fellow{{Cite web|url=https://cavecanempoets.org/dogbytes-interview-john-murillo/|title=Cave Canem » Blog Archive » DOGBYTES Interview: John Murillo|language=en|access-date=2019-09-24}} and MacDowell fellow.{{Cite web|url=https://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists/john-murillo|title=John Murillo - Artist|website=MacDowell Colony|language=en|access-date=2019-09-24}}

Life

He grew up in Los Angeles to an African-American father and Mexican mother.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poets/john-murillo|title=John Murillo|website=www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org}} He graduated from Howard University and New York University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-murillo|title=John Murillo|date=2019-09-24|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-09-24}} Murillo previously taught at Hampshire College and New York University. He currently teaches at Wesleyan University{{Cite web|url=https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/jmurillo/profile.html#|title=John Murillo - Faculty, Wesleyan University|website=www.wesleyan.edu|access-date=2019-09-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lawrentian.com/archives/1006512|title=Poet John Murillo reads selected work in Wriston art gallery|date=2015-10-16|website=The Lawrentian|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-24}} and Sierra Nevada College.{{Cite web|url=https://aprweb.org/authors/john-murillo|title=American Poetry Review – Authors|website=aprweb.org|access-date=2019-09-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/john-murillo|title=About John Murillo | Academy of American Poets|last=Poets|first=Academy of American|website=poets.org|access-date=2019-09-24}}

Works

  • [https://www.readab.com/jmurillo.html Three Poems] ReadingAB,
  • [http://losangelesreview.org/variation-theme-john-murillo/ VARIATION ON A THEME BY GIL SCOTT-HERON], The Los Angeles Review,
  • [https://www.aprweb.org/poems/a-refusal-to-mourn-the-deaths-by-gunfire-of-three-men-in-brooklyn A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATHS, BY GUNFIRE, OF THREE MEN IN BROOKLYN], American Poetry Review
  • Up Jump the Boogie (Cypher, 2010) {{ISBN|9780981913148}}, {{OCLC|495272840}}
  • The Matador’s Ghost
  • Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books, 2020) {{ISBN|9781945588471}}, {{OCLC|1110678451}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Murillo|first1=John|date=January 24, 2021|title=Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop |journal=The New York Times Magazine|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/magazine/poem-variation-on-a-theme-by-elizabeth-bishop.html }}

References

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