José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes is the author of the chapbook Present Values (Backbone Press, 2018), winner of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poems have previously appeared in various Philippine and U.S. journals and have been anthologized in The Powow River Anthology, Villanelles, The Achieve Of, The Mastery: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-‘90s to 2016, and No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant and First-Generation American Poetry.

Find José's chapbook here:

https://backbonepress.org/titles/present-values/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem from the perspective of one of your childhood toys.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem set in spring that includes personification.

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