Paul Martínez Pompa is a Latino poet. The author of ''My Kill Adore Him'' (

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, 2009), (selected by

Martín Espada Martín Espada (born 1957) is a Puerto Rican-American poet, and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems. Life and career Espada was born ...

for the 2008

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) and the chapbook ''Pepper Spray'' (Momotombo Press, 2006).Institute for Latino Studies > Momtombo Press > ''Pepper Spray''
Martinez Pompa's poetry and prose have been anthologized in ''Telling Tongues'' and ''The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry''. He earned degrees from the

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and

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, where he served as a poetry editor for '' Indiana Review''. Martinez Pompa currently teaches at

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College in River Grove, Illinois.

External links

Review of ''My Kill Adore Him'' at the Poetry Foundation Blog

References

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