Xavier Cavazos

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Rumpus Original Poetry: “PatRIOT” by Xavier Cavazos

July 25th, 2017

When all gods are dead & Allah means the same as Christ on the Cross / & Christ on the Cross means the same as detonation—

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Xavier Cavazos is the author of Diamond Grove Slave Tree (2015), the inaugural Prairie Seed Poetry Prize from Ice Cube Press, and Barbarian at the Gate (2014), which was published in the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Chapbook Series. Cavazos was included in the Best American Experimental Writing (2015), and earned an MFA in Creative Writing and the Environment from Iowa State University. He currently teaches in the Africana and Black Studies and the Professional and Creative Writing Programs at Central Washington University and is an editorial assistant for Poetry Northwest.