{"id":1645,"date":"2023-07-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2023-07-14T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:40:37","slug":"interview-with-jose-hernandez-diaz-by-morgan-whitney-and-tara-bromfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Jose Hernandez Diaz by Morgan Whitney and Tara Bromfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did you have a favorite tall\/fairy tale growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t think I had a favorite fairy tale growing up. I liked the three little pigs story. The Billy Goats Gruff. The Jack and the Beanstalk tale. I was into Bible stories a lot, too, as a child growing up in a fairly religious, traditional Mexican American household. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also remember really loving the imagination and spontaneity of \u201cWhere the Sidewalk Ends\u201d by Shel Silverstein in elementary school. I remember checking that book out quite often. I remember running to its spot in the library and that relieved feeling when I realized it was still available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have any favorite poets or authors whose works you read often?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of my favorite poets\/authors are: James Tate, Octavio Paz, Marosa di Giorgio, Heather Christle, Ray Gonzalez, Claudia Rankine, Ada Lim\u00f3n, Russell Edson, Alberto R\u00edos, Eduardo C. Corral, Rosario Castellanos, Charles Simic, to name a few. I wouldn\u2019t say I read them often right now as much of my current reading centers on work-related material, but they played a key role in my formative years as a young writer, figuring out my tastes, styles, and just general admiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your three pieces deal in varying degrees of flight and movement. Is this common thread intentional, or something that came about individually in these specific pieces? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess you could say flight is a common theme in my work. I\u2019m interested in flight, escape, space, ether, the unknown, Mars, the stars, the sun, the moon, all of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are you working on right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now I am deciding the cover for my forthcoming collection, Bad Mexican, Bad American<\/em> with Acre Books, 2024. The pre-order link should be ready by October, and the book will be published around February 2024 in time for AWP 2024. Besides that, I have another collection, The Parachutist<\/em>, which I have already picked the cover image for and which will be published at AWP 2025. I have two additional full manuscripts after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than that, I have been teaching online creative writing workshops with writing orgs like The Writer’s Center, Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshops, and other places. I have been teaching workshops on surrealism, prose poetry, submissions, revision, Latinx poetry, and other topics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jose Hernandez Diaz’s poems,<\/a> “The Moon, 2050,” “Meeting James Tate in Heaven,” and “The Man and the Dragon” appeared in <\/em>hex on March 7, 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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