Writer.
Websites:
http://jfpadua.blogspot.com/
http://paduakings.blogspot.com/
Some links to my work:
- Shaking Like a Mountain, Spring 2008
Big Bridge - War Papers 2Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Spring 2008"A Short History of Everyone in the World" - Up is Up, but So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 , edited by Brandon Stosuy and published by New York University Press.
"Risqué Business" - Washington City Paper"The Mayor's Race" - Washington City Paper
"New York" (audio file) - Salon.com"On Broadway" - Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Fall 2007 (The Evolving City)
"Why I'm So Much Greater Than Everyone Else" - Moving Words, April-September, 2005
Posted at On These Days Driving , my
website:
The Edge of the World (a novel, in progress)
Part I: Moving to Florida (Click for each chapter):
Chapter 1: A Distant City
Chapter 2: Teenage Lust
Chapter 3: School of Love
Chapter 4: Moving to Florida
Chapter 5: Another Time, Another Place
Chapter 6: In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Chapter 7: Dancers and Other Freaks Staying up Past Midnight
Chapter 8: All Concern Rests with the Dead, Annalisa
Chapter 9: By the Time I Get to Phoenix and Other Gentle Rants of Madmen
Chapter 10: My TVC15
Part II: The Prince of Darkness (Click for each chapter):
Chapter 1: From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay
Chapter 2: The Sunshine of My Life
Chapter 3: Bitch World
Chapter 4: My Significance in an Indifferent Universe
Chapter 5: The Sparkling Machinery You Call Your Destiny
Chapter 6: All the Beautiful Names for Oblivion
Chapter 7: Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Chapter 8: The Last Day Job in the Unreal City
Chapter 9: White Feather Wings
Chapter 10: Beer, Dogs, and Poetry
Chapter 11: Bourbon, Dogs, and Arlene Dahl
Chapter 12: The Dimension of Stillness
Chapter 13: Silver Was the Color, Winter Was a Snowbell
Chapter 14: The Light Pours Out of Me
José Padua's poetry and fiction have appeared in:
Magazines/Journals: Bomb, Salon.com, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago
Magazine, Redtape, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, The
Café Review, Downtown, Berkeley Poets Cooperative, A Gathering of the Tribes, Big Cigars, National Poetry Magazine Of The Lower East
Side, Body Double, Milk, Rant, Big Fish, Instant
Classics, Hyperage, PIM (Public Illumination Magazine), etc.
Anthologies:
Up is Up, but So Is
Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene,
1974-1992 (fall 2006); Mondo Barbie; Crimes of the Beats; Unbearables; Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza '94; Poetry
Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry; Help Yourself
Compact Discs:
Nuyorican Symphony,
Knitting Factory Works; Meow: Spoken Word From the Black Cat, Alibi 13; My Tongue Is a Red Carpet, Alibi
13.
Chapbooks:
NYDC Blues (non-fiction), Pan-Semantic Press (1996); The
Complete Failure Of Everything (poems), Apathy Press (1993); Strange
Dreams (poems), P.O.N. Press (1990); The Eddie Cochran Story (fiction),
P.O.N. Press (1990). Other: MOVING WORDS exhibit, Arlington County, VA (2005).
His non-fiction has appeared
in:
New York Times, NYPress, Brooklyn Rail, Washington City
Paper, Frontline, Wrestling World, and The St. Mark's Poetry
Project Newsletter.
Among the venues/events where he has read his work or "performed" are the following:
Arlington County Public Library, Arlington, VA, Moving Words Poetry Program,
2005; Borders Books, Washington DC: My Tongue Is A Red Carpet CD release reading,
1999; Chi-Cha Lounge, Washington DC: Adda reading series, 1998; Borders Books, Washington DC: Meow CD release reading,
1997; Black Cat Club, Washington DC: "Poetry Bonanza," 1996; Atticus Books, Washington DC: Unbearables publication
reading, 1996; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.: featured reading, 1995; Artists' Space, New York, NY:
featured reading, 1995; Black Cat Club, Washington D.C.: "Poetry Bonanza" with Nuyorican Poets,
1995; National Poetry Slam, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995; Black Cat Club, Washington DC: featured reading, 1994; Lollapalooza
Festival, Charlestown, W. Virginia: 1994; St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY: featured reading, 1993; Ward-Nasse
Gallery, New York, NY: "Sophisticated Unbearables," 1993; Public Theater, New York, NY: Public Poetry series, 1993; St.
Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY: Epiphany Albums, 1992; Fez Under Time Café, New York, NY: featured reading, 1992;
Mitchell-Baker Gallery, Baltimore, MD: featured reading, 1992; La Mama Galleria, New York, NY: Body Double publication
reading, 1992; CBGB, New York, NY: AIDS Project benefit, 1992; Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY: Up From The Underground
series, 1991; Living Theater, New York, NY: "Unbearable Beatniks," 1991; Nuyorican Poets' Cafe, New York, NY: Big Cigars
publication reading, 1990; Knitting Factory, New York, NY: Word Up series, 1990.