Mexican Dinosaur by C.L. Rooster Martinez

The first full-length collection by San Antonio poet C.L. "Rooster" Martinez is now available! About the collection Mexican Dinosaur is a poetic offering from C.L. “Rooster” Martinez and Write About Now Publishing. The collection of poems is a metamodernist take on the changing economic demographics of his San Antonio barrio, the confusion and desire to flourish within a hyphenated American identity, and the force of gravity that the push and pull of culture from both sides of a Mexican/American ethnicity has. The collection was edited by Ayokunle Falomo and publication is slated for October 2023. About the author C.L. "Rooster" Martinez is an educator, writer and spoken word poet from San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press, 2020), as well as an upcoming kid’s book–Puro Galaxy Defender–through Juventude Press. His work has appeared in such publications as Huizache, V