Manuel Calvillo de la Garza
Distance
Surprised Now
August's long silences
You are my tongue
Manuel Calvillo de la Garza is a writer, collage-maker, and translator from Monterrey, México. He’s been a fellow or scholar at the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and Community of Writers. His work appears in Puerto del Sol, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Cutthroat Magazine, and has been anthologized in Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. He translates for the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts and for A Leer Más Cuentos. He's nearly done with his first novel, "School of Artistas Inmigrantes," and is studying a PhD in creative writing at the University of Denver. Find him: @manucalvi & manucalvillo.com