Jose Padua
Jose Padua’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Bomb, Salon.com, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, Unbearables, Crimes of the Beats, Up is Up, but So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, and many other journals and anthologies. He has also written features and reviews for NYPress, Washington City Paper, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Times. He has read his work at the Lollapalooza Festival, CBGBs, the Knitting Factory, the Public Theater, the Living Theater, the Nuyorican Poets’ Café, the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, the Black Cat Club, the Washington Project for the Arts, and many other venues. He lives in Virginia with his wife, the poet Heather Davis, and their daughter. He is currently at work on a novel.
Photos are by Jose Padua unless noted otherwise.
Websites:
Shenandoah Breakdown
Kings of the Road
Jose Padua’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Bomb, Salon.com, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, Unbearables, Crimes of the Beats, Up is Up, but So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, and many other journals and anthologies. He has also written features and reviews for NYPress, Washington City Paper, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Times. He has read his work at the Lollapalooza Festival, CBGBs, the Knitting Factory, the Public Theater, the Living Theater, the Nuyorican Poets’ Café, the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, the Black Cat Club, the Washington Project for the Arts, and many other venues. He lives in Virginia with his wife, the poet Heather Davis, and their daughter. He is currently at work on a novel.
Photos are by Jose Padua unless noted otherwise.
Websites:
Shenandoah Breakdown
Kings of the Road
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I Can’t Find My Money
Ever since I threw up
in the hole
of my guitar
my guitar playing
hasn’t been
the same.
Now when I
stand beneath
my true love’s
window
to serenade her
she no longer
blows me a kiss
and throws me
her key
but calls
the cops
instead.
Oh, love
oh, love
What am I
doing wrong?
-Jose Padua
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The sign has since been changed, but for at least a year, residents of Front Royal and tourists were inadvertently advised to flee.
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