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A stunning debut collection, Anthony Ceballos' Glassful of Prayer, wrestles with questions of identity against the backdrop of loss, heritage, family ties, addiction, nature, and urban Minneapolis. Ceballos relentlessly delves into the experience of claiming and defining a self with vivid imagery of reflections and nature, and through dreamed or imagined dialogue with an alcoholic father he never knew: ""I am not/my father's boy, I am not/his body, I am not nobody.."" In another poem, his grandmother's spirit asks, ""Who? Who do you want to be?"" Ceballos connects these themes of negative and positive identity through a single thread prevalent throughout the collection, authenticity, leading us through a landscape of darkness and ash to a place of self-acceptance and love.

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Anthony Ceballos lives and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he can be found penning staff recommendations at Birchbark Books & Native Arts, a small, independent, Native-owned bookstore. In 2022 he was selected to be a participant in the inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets retreat in Washington DC, as well as their 2024 retreat in the Twin Cities. In 2016 he was selected to be a mentee in The Loft Literary Center's Mentor Series program. He has been published in Yellow Medicine Review, Water Stone Review, Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride, and the anthology Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance, among others. He has participated in and hosted a number of poetry readings over the years across Minneapolis/St. Paul. He has been a featured guest on various Minnesota Public Radio and KFAI-FM programs. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Randolph College in Virginia. He is a first generation descendant of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe/ Glassful of Prayer is his first poetry collection.

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