The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Dimitri Reyes was born in 1993 and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where he earned his BA and MFA from Rutgers University. His poems have been published in literary journals such as Oxford Review of Books, Entropy Magazine, Acentos Review and Poetry Daily. Reyes’s work explores music, identity, and displacement and draws influence from poets such as Willie Perdomo, Shane McRae, Sandra Cisneros, Marcus Wicker, Amiri Baraka, Andres Montoya, Jesús Papoleto Meléndez, and Louis Reyes Rivera. When not in the classrooms or lecture halls, he teaches online, via Youtube, his blog and Patreon. In 2017 he received a Bridging the Gap Award for Emerging Poets from Slice Magazine. His collection Every First and Fifteenth was a Digging Press Chapbook Award winner in 2021. In 2022, he was a finalist for the Andres Montoya Prize and the Omnidawn Chapbook Award. He is marketing and communications director at CavanKerry Press.

Works Cited

Reyes, Dimitri. Interview. Conducted by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, 28 Oct. 2022.