Paul Martínez Pompa is the author of My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press

University of Notre Dame Press

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, 2009), which was selected by Martín Espada

Martín Espada

Martín Espada is a Latino poet, and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems.- Life and career :Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York...

 for the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. His chapbook Pepper Spray was published by Momotombo Press in 2006. Martinez Pompa's poetry and prose have been anthologized in Telling Tongues and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. He earned degrees from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 and Indiana University

Indiana University

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, where he served as a poetry editor for Indiana Review

Indiana Review

Indiana Review ' is a small, student-run literary magazine at Indiana University. Founded in 1976, it has a circulation of about 2,000.A biannual review, IR publishes essays, fiction, graphic arts, interviews, poetry, and reviews...

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External links

• Visit Paul Martinez Pompa's website

• Read a review of My Kill Adore Him at the Poetry Foundation Blog