a description of the body

A semi-autobiographical poem talking about self-imposed exile into eventual self-rediscovery and cherishing life while transforming from the East to West Coast. The poem also talks about mood and social shifts while incorporating the experience from both coasts.

The moon is heavy. You discuss your relationship with the moon.

A poem about loss.

I spent my nineteenth birthday at my grandparents’.

On Tuesday, October 17th, Dr. Craig Santos Perez, a professor of English at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa and prolific poet and essayist, held a poetry reading in UCLA’s Kaplan Hall.