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Sebastián Hasani Páramo

Sebastián Hasani Páramo

Denton, TX, USA

Sebastián Hasani Páramo is the son of Mexican immigrants. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Blackbird, The Kenyon Review Online, among others. He is the editor-in-chief of THE BOILER. He has received scholarships and awards from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a PhD candidate in English and creative writing at the University of North Texas.

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Mother

Poetry by Sebastián Hasani Páramo

* Story contains bad language

She brings shampoo bottles home. I don’t remember if she did or not, but I swear she brought the sheets home too. I probablydecided to build a fort. Whenever...

Narrating a Reunion

Poetry by Sebastián Hasani Páramo

Wasn’t it a strange house? That swimming pool above ground?Some streamers & party horns, whistles too for the little ladies looking for balloons un pastel de...

Diego Rivera, the Flower Carrier, 1935

Poetry by Sebastián Hasani Páramo

He kneels under the burden of flowers, looking down, he cannot feel their beauty. The purple heft of it weighs him down. His yellow sling used to latch the...

Excavation of a Boy

Poetry by Sebastián Hasani Páramo

Tell me the story again how you shaped clay into a toy.All you had was dirt. Such an old thing to have.I didn’t believe you until I visited your childhood...

The Laundromat Saint

Poetry by Sebastián Hasani Páramo

The way mother folded my clothes. What did I learn? I still don’t know what I’m doing.My hands could never be as good. Eight years old, I’m with Mom at our...