Two Poems by David Tomas Martinez

About The Author

David Tomas Martinez - David Tomas Martinez's debut collection of poetry, Hustle, was released in 2014 by Sarabande Books, winning the New England Book Festival's prize in poetry, the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and honorable mention in the Antonio Cisneros Del Moral prize. He is the 2015 winner of the Verlaine Poetry Prize from Inprint. Martinez is a Pushcart winner, CantoMundo fellow, and a recipient of the Stanley P Young Fellowship from Broadleaf. A second collection, Post Traumatic Hood Disorder, is forthcoming in 2018 from Sarabande Books.