Together Now

Together Now, by Alfonso Zapata

Together Now hovers in the space between community and our own internal worlds. Alfonso Zapata navigates the complexities of cultural identity among a family who has formed his sense of belonging against illness, grief, and wider social pressures. Throughout this chapbook, poems about music, home, and myth-making give shape to the places that remain filled with memories even after we lose the people that first defined them.

Alfonso Zapata is a poet living in Lexington, Kentucky. He received his MFA in poetry at The University of Kentucky, and has attended The University of Toledo and The University of Southern Mississippi, where he obtained his master’s degree in poetry. He has previously received the Jim Lawless IV Poetry Prize, and the 2022 & 2023 University of Kentucky MFA Poetry Awards. His work has appeared in Sho Poetry Journal, and his first full book of poetry, To Pay for Our Next Breath, will be released in Spring 2025 by Texas Review Press.

Details:

• Publication date: July 23, 2024
  
• ISBN: 978-1-960215-21-5
  
• 5 x 7 in
• 40 pages

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