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By Jose PaduaAdded: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 / Jose Padua performs the poem "Grinderman" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation and Witness which took place at Carlos Rosario Public Charter School from March 22-25, 2012 in Washington D. C.
Jose Padua’s manuscript, A Short History of Monsters (University of Arkansas, 2019), was chosen by former poet laureate Billy Collins as the winner of the 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Jose Padua’s work appears regularly at the online journal Vox Populi. He lives with his family in Washington, DC.