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The poems in Emigrant Creek and Other Songs are attuned to particular places: Puerto Rico, Spain, upstate New York, Vermont, Montana. Out in nature, alfresco, Fred Arroyo’s lyrical and meditative poems, enrich the growing chorus of Latinx experience. In a world of impatient, frenetic, lonely days, Arroyo writes from stabilitas loci, an attentive stillness, where vulnerability and yearning search for nourishing enchantment. And from this place, the striking images, vivid palette, and evocative music discover swift departures—migrations clear, strong, and fast as a creek alive in its earthly song.
Fred Arroyo is the author of Alba and Other Songs, winner of the 3rd Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize, published in a bilingual edition (2024). His Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging was shortlisted for 2021–2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He is also the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions (also shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize), and The Region of Lost Names—all three of these titles with the University of Arizona Press. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Fred is working on a collection of short fictions, The Book of Manuels. He currently lives in and works in Murfreesboro, Tennessee as an Associate Professor at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).