Jeremy Paden, Author at Shadelandhouse Modern Press

About Jeremy Paden

Jeremy Paden was born in Italy and raised in Central America and the Caribbean. On his mother's side, he is of Puerto Rican ancestry. And he is Scots by way of Virginia. He is a professor of Spanish at Transylvania University and a member of the Affrilachian Poets. Paden is a proflic poet. He is the author of Self-Portrait as an Iguana (Valparaíso Editions, 2021) World as Sacred Burning Heart (3: A Taos Press, 2021), Under the Ocelot Sun/Bajo el sol del ocelote (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2020), three chapbooks of poems: "ruina montium" (Broadstone Books, 2016; Spanish Edition: Valparaíso Editions, 2018), prison recipes (Broadstone Books, 2018), and "Broken Tulips" (Accents Publishing, 2013). His poems and translations have appeared in such publications as "Asymptote Journal," "Beloit Poetry Journal," "California Quarterly," "Cincinnati Review," "The Cortland Review," "The Louisville Review," "Rattle, and "Words without Borders," among others.

17 08, 2022

Now We Endure: A Review of The Hurting Kind, by Ada Limón

By Jeremy Paden|2022-08-17T13:48:18-04:00August 17th, 2022|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews|0 Comments

Reviewed by Jeremy Paden | August 17, 2022 Ada Limón’s most recent collection of poems, The Hurting Kind, opens with the delightful “Give Me This” and closes with the masterful “The End of Poetry.” Both are lyric poems, but they

22 09, 2021

The Small, Independent Press y la voz del pueblo by Jeremy Paden

By Jeremy Paden|2021-09-22T15:13:14-04:00September 22nd, 2021|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Publisher's Picks|0 Comments

Jeremy Paden The Voice That Is Great within Us, Hayden Carruth, ed., published in 1979 by Bantam Books, is a classic anthology of American poetry that gathered more than 130 poets published during the first 60 years of

14 02, 2019

Love Poems Paired with Culinary Delights (A Valentine’s Day Menu): Part III, Jeremy Paden

By Jeremy Paden|2019-02-14T12:50:07-05:00February 14th, 2019|Publisher's Picks, Southern Voices|0 Comments

Below are three love poems, two classic love poems by two of the most famous Renaissance poets, Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645), "Amor constante más allá de la muerte" and Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536), Soneto V—both selections are presented in

15 10, 2018

National Hispanic Heritage Month: Selected works by Jeremy Paden

By Jeremy Paden|2018-10-15T18:14:14-04:00October 15th, 2018|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments

In recognition of 2018 National Hispanic Heritage Month we are pleased to share with our readers selected and diverse works by Jeremy Paden: a poem, an essay, and a book review. * Thank you, Jeremy for enlightening

17 08, 2018

Immigrant Nation: On Recuerdos de Nuestro Pasado and the need to tell the stories of our newest citizens

By Jeremy Paden|2018-08-17T12:03:39-04:00August 17th, 2018|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews|0 Comments

by Jeremy Paden Much of the rhetoric coming out of the White House regarding the crisis at our border dehumanizes the people who have trekked countless miles through violent and godforsaken lands to come to the United States. Their

15 10, 2017

“How to Peel an Orange,” by Jeremy Paden

By Jeremy Paden|2017-10-15T11:29:53-04:00October 15th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments

How to Peel an Orange by Jeremy Paden My Puerto Rican grandmother had a contraption a peeler a clamp that held the orange in place with rods an axis on which the orb turned while a blade etched a

6 10, 2017

“On Borders and Neighbors and the American Dream,” by Jeremy Paden

By Jeremy Paden|2017-10-06T14:07:13-04:00October 6th, 2017|National Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Voices|0 Comments

In March of this year, once the sun began to shine again and warm the earth, a neighbor with whom I chat—in the way you chat with those with whom you share a fence—told me he’d been sleeping very