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Today's poem is "The Fortune-Teller of My Youth"

from Sugar House Review

Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Chestnut Review, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, The Journal, Los Angeles Review, The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, Poetry, Southeast Review, The Southern Review, Witness Magazine, The Yale Review, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology 2011. He teaches creative writing online and edits for Frontier Poetry.

Other poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz in Verse Daily:
July 5, 2022:   "Quetzalcoatl in the City" "I saw Quetzalcoatl at Panda Express in the city...."
January 24, 2022:   "The Dragon and the Coyote" "A man looked into a mirror, but he didn't recognize himself...."
April 2, 2021:   "The Centaur" "I was ordered to go to hell after I died...."
September 11, 2020:   "The Wall" "A man in a Chicano Batman shirt punched a wall...."
June 21, 2017:   "The Bulldog" "I woke up transformed into a bulldog...."

Books by Jose Hernandez Diaz:

Other poems on the web by Jose Hernandez Diaz:
"Almost Buried"
"Guisados"
"Ode to a California Neck Tattoo"
"El Chacal"
Three poems
"The Last Time I Cried"
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
"The Dragon and the Coyote"
Two poems
Two poems
"The Man and The Antlers"
"Taxi to the Beach"
"The Target"

Jose Hernandez Diaz on Twitter.

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