David Dominguez













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               David Dominguez’s full-length collection of poetry, Work Done Right, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2003. An earlier collection, Marcoli Sausage, was showcased in Gary Soto’s Chicano Chapbook Series.

                Dominguez’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in magazines and journals, such as  Askew, Bloomsbury Review, Border Senses Literary Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Faultline, In the Grove, Palabra: a Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art, Poet Lore, and Southern Review.

                His work has been anthologized in The Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, Alcatraz Editions; Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes, C&R Press; Highway 99: a Literary Journey through California’s Great Central Valley, 2nd edition, Heyday Books; How Much Earth: the Fresno Poets, Heyday Books; and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, University of Arizona Press.

                In addition to being showcased in the Poetry in Motion Program and on the web at Poetry Daily, work by David Dominguez has been reviewed by Gary Soto at www.garysoto.com, by Rigoberto Gonzalez in the El Paso Times of Texas, in Solo, The Fresno Bee, the Rocky Mountain News, and Reforma Newsletter.

                He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Irvine and his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He teaches composition and poetry writing at Reedley College and is the co-founder and poetry editor of The Packinghouse Review.