Paul Martinez PompaPaul Martínez Pompa (he/him) is a poet and professor who earned degrees from The University of Chicago (B.A.) and Indiana University (M.F.A). His first book, My Kill Adore Him (University of Notre Dame Press), was selected for the Andres Montoya Poety Prize. His poetry has earned an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and has been widely anthologized, including in What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Trump Era, and The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Chicago Public Radio commissioned his poetry for a project called "In Verse," which aimed to explore the emotional weight of gun violence. He is currently on the editorial board at Packingtown Review. Read More Read Less