2024 HFR Contest poetry winner selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen
Redaction (an excerpt from RE████)
Redaction is the second sequence from the poem RE████ and is in conversation with, and an erasure of "The Death of Atahualpa at the Hands of Pizarro’s Men" by Mary Ruefle, from her collection Dunce published by Wave Books in 2019.
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David Joez Villaverde holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan. A CantoMundo fellow, he has received honors from the American Academy of Poets, Best New Poets, and the Black Warrior Review. His work has recently been published in The Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, New England Review, AGNI, and FENCE. He lives in New York and can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com.