i. I don’t recall the first time I saw a tlaquache, an opossum, though…
Joe Jiménez is the author of The Possibilities of Mud (Korima 2014) and Bloodline (Arte Público 2016). Jiménez is the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Poetry Prize. Jimenez’s essays and poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Iron Horse, RHINO, Bat City, and Waxwing, and on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. Jimenez was recently awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship from 2017-2020. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is a member of the Macondo Writing Workshops. For more information, visit joejimenez.net
i. I don’t recall the first time I saw a tlaquache, an opossum, though…