FlowerSong Press Writing Workshop Series: Spring 2025: The Philosophical Poem

Rodney Gomez was the inaugural winner of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize in 2014. His chapbook Spine was selected by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. His books include Arsenal with Praise Song (Orison Books, 2021), recipient of the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for best book of poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award, and Geographic Tongue (Pleiades Press, 2020), winner of Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series. His other honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellowship from Yale, and a De Groot Foundation grant. He serves as advisory editor for FlowerSong Press, where he founded the Bougainvillea Prize to honor working class poets or collections for/about the working class.   https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rodney-gomezhttps://poets.org/poet/rodney-gomez