Willie Perdomo

Willie Perdomo is the author of three previous poetry collections: Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award; Smoking Lovely, the winner of the 2004 PEN Open Book Award; and The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, BOMB and The Common. Perdomo teaches at the Phillips Exeter Academy.

Willie Perdomo on Poetry as a Decolonial Practice

Introducing LatiNEXT, the BreakBeat Poetry Series

June 15, 2020 By Willie Perdomo

‘We Used to Call it Puerto Rico Rain,’
A Poem by Willie Perdomo

From the Collection The Crazy Bunch

April 2, 2019 By Willie Perdomo

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