6.9 (Infantry Patrols: Attacking Houses) Darkness is hard to control it makes too much noise barking at Venus at churches and their corneas of fired glass better to let the lead fulfill its rapturous purpose 6.4 (Infantry Patrols: Feeding the Personnel) The cure for melancholy is a good tussle. The cure […]
Chris Santiago
CHRIS SANTIAGO is the author of Tula, winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, selected by A. Van Jordan. His second collection Small Wars Manual is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in April. His poems, fiction, and criticism have appeared in FIELD, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, and the Asian American Literary Review. He holds degrees in creative writing and music from Oberlin College and received his PhD in English from the University of Southern California. The recipient of fellowships from Kundiman the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment of the Arts, Santiago teaches literature, sound culture, and creative writing at the California Institute of the Arts. He lives in Pasadena.
“6.9,” “6.1,” and “1.4”
Erasure Poetry as Anti-Imperialism: Chris Santiago Interviewed by Xander Gershberg
by Chris Santiago
In April of 2025, Milkweed Editions will release Chris Santiago’s highly anticipated second poetry collection Small Wars Manual, which Kaveh Akbar calls “a masterpiece, one of those books I read and know at once I’ll be coming back to the rest of my life.” Alongside MAYDAY’s feature of three poems included in the collection (“6.9,” […]
