C.L. "Rooster" Martinez

Poems:

Five poems ("Travel Essentials”, “Camote”, “Will the birds recall our ballads?”, “By their own god, they are monsters”, & “Loconuts II”) in the Journal of Pedagogy and Creativity by Catch the Next. PDF here

"Poem  4 (Untitled)";  Issue 34, riverSedge: A Journal of Art and Literature.  

"The Gospel According to Healthy Coping Mechanisms"; Issue 34, riverSedge: A Journal of Art and Literature.   

"I use chopsticks very well"; "The Rites of Home"; & "Ten-Years-Young (1728) appearing in The Acentos Review. 

"Terror(tory)" & "How long is long enough?" appearing in Scalawag. 

"An Untitled Brown Poem" appearing in Huffington Post Latino Voices.

Performing:

• "Somos Cosmicanos" appearing in KENS5 Hispanic Heritage Month

• "My Mother Takes a Test" appearing on TPR's Literary Moments.

• "An Untitled Brown Poem" appearing in Huffington Post Latino Voices.

• "Woke AF" published by GET.

• "Abrasive Be" published by Write About Now Poetry.

• "Barrio Yard Sale" a group piece poem with Chibbi Orduña & Eddie Vega, published by Write About Now Poetry, (Houston, TX).

• "Write, Share, Be Heard" a TEDxYouth Talk (San Antonio, TX). 

NEWS:

• Mexican Dinosaur wins the 2024 National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies Tejas Poetry Book award. 

• Roost became a recipient of the San Antonio Arts and Culture Individual Artists Project Grant, Oct 2021.

• A new review of Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out in The Acentos Review by Larissa Hernandez, March 2021. 

• "Local poets encourage voter participation in politically charged anthology" by James Courtney, published in SA Report, Oct. 2020.

• "Book Review" by Ed O'Casey in Voices de la Luna, May 2020. 

• "San Antonio Welcomes Spoken Word Artists for Southern Fried Poetry Festival" by James Courtney, published in the San Antonio Current, June 2018.

• "San Antonio Poets Who Should Be On Your Radar" published by the San Antonio Current, April 2018.