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Welcome to The Influence, a space where I share reviews, writing prompts, community features, and reflections on the writing life. Here you’ll find books I’m thinking with, writers I’m celebrating, exercises for your own practice, and occasional updates on my own work and events as a poet, essayist, educator, and editor.

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FORMAL BIO: José Angel Araguz, Ph.D. (he/him/él) is the author most recently of the lyric memoir Ruin & Want (Sundress Publications) as well as the poetry collections Rotura (Black Lawrence Press) and La esperanza espera (Valparaiso Ediciones). His poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, The Acentos Review, and Oxidant | Engine among other places. He is an Associate Professor at Suffolk University and a faculty-at-large member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Lasell University. He blogs and reviews books here at The Influence.

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Check out the FREE digital chapbooks The Book of Flight ,  Naos: an introduction & Naos: Crumbs.

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