Born and raised in the Philippines, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes is the author of the chapbook Present Values (Backbone Press, 2018), winner of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poems have previously appeared in various Philippine and U.S. journals and have been anthologized in The Powow River Anthology, Villanelles, The Achieve Of, The Mastery: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-‘90s to 2016, and No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant and First-Generation American Poetry.

Books

Present Values (Backbone Press, 2018)

Poetry Online

“Systemic Functional Linguistics,” Rattle
“Boondocks,” Michigan Quarterly Review
“The Red Model II,” Rattle
“Portrait of Edmund, Son of Gloucester, as an Undocumented Immigrant Reading the Sweepstakes Rules and Regulations,” Terrain

Anthologies

The Powow River Poets Anthology II (Able Muse Press, 2021)
No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry (2019)
The Achieve of, the Mastery Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-‘90s to 2016 (University of the Philippines Press, 2018)
Villanelles (Everyman’s Library, 2012)
The Powow River Anthology (Ocean Publishing, 2006)

Honors

Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award, New England Poetry Club: 2019
RHINO Translation Prize: 2011
Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Second Prize for Poetry: 2007
Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, First Prize for Essay: 2006
Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize, New England Poetry Club: 2004, 2006
Academy of American Poets Prize, Columbia University: 2002
Dean’s Award for Literature, Ateneo de Manila University: 1994