boyhood
Track
Murillo, John. Up Jump the Boogie. New York: Cypher Books, 2010.
Reading
John Murillo, the Poetry Center's spring poet in residence, reads from Up Jump the Boogie (2010) and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (2020). His poems—many of them long poems—consider masculinity, the divide between boyhood and manhood, violence, and the ways we construct our sense of self.