Alberto Ríos

Poet Laureate of Arizona :: Regents' Professor of English at ASU :: Director, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

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I recently did some voice work for Netflix, and as it turns out I am the voice of Benjamin Franklin in the documentary (in, I believe, episodes 2 and 3). https://t.co/OjxFraCj4M

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

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Very happy to announce my forthcoming book of poems from Copper Canyon Press, Every Sound is Not a Wolf https://t.co/L0iO9ThHlL

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Very happy to be included in the New Yorker's anthology: https://t.co/JSJhpeVlLM

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Honored to be today's "Poem of the Day" from the Academy of American Poets. https://t.co/S8nC7wU5Mi

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On this day, this particular day, I am honored to be on The Slowdown: https://t.co/u2Kx7ZGLa8

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... doing its job."

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"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...

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Here is another quite timely interview and story I did with El Periódico in Barcelona, Spain.  https://t.co/7f5DwV7zmd

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Wonderfully timely interview with Stéphane Baillargeon of the Canadian newspaper Le Devoir: https://t.co/v1f8UJoSaK

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A U.S. congressional delegation recently met with Mexico's President-elect @Claudiashein, whom they presented with a book of poetry by @ASU Regents Professor of English @AlbertoRiosAZ.

Learn more @azcentral: https://t.co/ldJXhfiTxK #ASUHumanities CC: @piper_center

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Taking Your Olympic Measure https://t.co/fSMyihyEil
This may be timely.

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Thank you Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen for this wonderful episode of Poetry for All: https://t.co/6busv6Zt6t

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Some nice news to share: https://t.co/kCZ61w4l8a

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CantoMundo program manager position: https://t.co/5H0Un2vwWq

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A poem for light rail?! https://t.co/DsvKje9DIL