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After Richard Pryor
by Roberto Tejada
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Roberto TejadaROBERTO TEJADA’s recent publications include Todo en el ahora (Libros Magenta, 2015), selected poems translated into Spanish by Alfonso D’Aquino, Gabriel Bernal Granados, and Omar Pérez. He is faculty at the University of Houston where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program and Art History Department.
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