Bino A. Realuyo’s The Gods We Worship Live Next Door (University of Utah Press, 2006) was the winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize for Poetry. He has published poems in The Nation, the Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, and recent issues of ZYZZYVA, North American Review, The Common, Another Chicago Magazine, Salamander, and New American Writing. His poems in this issue are from his completed manuscript “#TheRebelSonnets.” In December 2019, the band U2 featured his poem in its Joshua Tree Anniversary Concert Tour in Manila. He lives in New York City, where he is an adult educator and immigrant rights activist and the co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
