David Tomas Martinez is the author of Hustle (Sarabande, 2014) and the forthcoming Post Traumatic Hood Disorder (Sarabande, 2018). Martinez teaches creative writing at Columbia University.
For a genealogy assignment I took a blood test. I found out I am O positive. My mom is A negative, which seems very fitting. My dad is B positive. This alone would normally frighten me. Needles should freeze in hell. I told my dad I was...
Picture if you will Tony Hoagland and me, he in his Donkey Gospel hat and me wearing my Hustle ring, in his car patched with silver duct tape and sagging passenger mirrors discussing vehicles as metaphors