Neighborhood to Neighborhood (Poetry & Visual Poetry)
Neighborhood to Neighborhood is a collection of visual poems, prose poems, and lyric essays. The core of the manuscript is a poetical, cartographical, and social geographical exploration—
taking base maps of segregated American cities and reconfiguring them with poetry to realize more just or imaginative arrangements.
“This generous grant will provide time and freedom to finish my manuscript. I’m incredibly grateful for the support.”
Rodney Gomez is a poet and urbanist. A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, he served as the 2020-2021 McAllen, Texas, Poet Laureate. He is the author of Arsenal with Praise Song (Orison Books, 2021), winner 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; Geographic Tongue (Pleiades Press, 2020), winner of the Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series; and Mouth Filled With Night (Northwestern University Press, 2014), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. His honors include an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellowship from Yale University, and a De Groot Foundation grant. His work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, the Gettysburg Review, North American Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.