Jose Araguz

Pretty Owl Poetry is pleased to announce the third installment of its online reading series, featuring poets and prose writers who’ve been published in the journal. This month, we hung out with Jose Araguz, who discussed his poem/flash fiction piece “Stream.” Jose Angel Araguz is a 2014 Canto Mundo fellow. He has had poems recently in Rattle, RHINO, Hanging Loose and Poet Lore as well as forthcoming flash fiction in NANO Fiction. He is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. He runs the poetry blog: The… Read More

Scott Hammer

Pretty Owl Poetry is pleased to announce the second installment of its online reading series, featuring poets and prose writers who’ve been published in the journal. This month, we hung out with Scott Hammer, who discussed his poem/flash fiction piece “IX.” Scott Hammer is the author of the poetry chapbook Some Body Some Hollow (Horse Less Press, 2014). His writing has appeared in places like ILK, NAP, Baltimore Review, Noo Weekly, Vector Press, and others. He is currently writing in the space between bridges. In this Google Hangout on Air, Scott explains the… Read More

Kate Schapira

Pretty Owl Poetry is excited to debut its new online reading series, which features poets and prose writers who’ve been published in the journal. This month, we’re kicking things off with poet Kate Schapira. She discusses her poem “What shall we name the baby?“, featured in the first issue of Pretty Owl Poetry. Kate Schapira lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she writes, teaches, and co-runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series. She’s the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Soft Place (Horse Less Press), and her ninth chapbook, Overheard While Hiding from the Sun,… Read More