"Day of the Refugios" by Alberto Ríos: Arizona State University (ASU) youtu.be/5XNxgKj3JwQ?si… via YouTube Nice to read this for Hispanic Heritage Month at ASU.

A poem for light rail?! valleymetro.org/project/projec…

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CantoMundo program manager position: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

Some nice news to share: poets.org/celebrated-poe…

Thank you Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen for this wonderful episode of Poetry for All: open.spotify.com/episode/3lNRil…

Taking Your Olympic Measure poets.org/poem/taking-yo… This may be timely.

A U.S. congressional delegation recently met with Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, whom they presented with a book of poetry by Arizona State University Regents Professor of English Alberto Ríos. Learn more azcentral: ow.ly/haNs50SOHJG #ASUHumanities CC: Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

Wonderfully timely interview with Stéphane Baillargeon of the Canadian newspaper Le Devoir: ledevoir.com/monde/etats-un…

Here is another quite timely interview and story I did with El Periódico in Barcelona, Spain.  elperiodico.com/es/internacion…

"When the dead come back to visit—a ghost, a breeze, a voice, the back of a head in a crowd—we remember somebody in that instant. That is what rhyme is in a poem, hearing a familiar sound, welcoming back what we thought was gone. Death does not like poems, which keep it from...

... doing its job."

On this day, this particular day, I am honored to be on The Slowdown: slowdownshow.org/episode/2024/1…

Honored to be today's "Poem of the Day" from the Academy of American Poets. poets.org/poem-a-day

Very happy to be included in the New Yorker's anthology: amazon.com/Century-Poetry…

Very happy to announce my forthcoming book of poems from Copper Canyon Press, Every Sound is Not a Wolf coppercanyonpress.org/books/every-so…

Very proud of my son Joaquin Rios, the new executive director of the Arizona Education Association. Congratulations, congratulations!!!