Orison Books author Rodney Gómez (Arsenal With Praise Song), the Poet Laureate of McAllen, Texas, has been awarded a $50,000 Poets Laureate Fellowship from The Academy of American Poets. Gómez will create a high school workshop series to encourage poetry from the border, a youth anthology, and a website for young poets. Read more about Gómez and the other fellowship recipients at https://bit.ly/2TQaPrj.