Julio Cesar Villegas

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, raised in Essex County, New Jersey, Poetry Reader for Muzzle Magazine, and current recipient of the Atlantis Award for Poetry, Julio Cesar Villegas is the writer that your abuelos warned you about. His scriptures can be found or are forthcoming in PANK, Rigorous Mag, Subprimal Poetry Art, Grist, Into The Void, Waccamaw, Bare Fiction, as well as the inescapable mouth of the abyss. Puerto Rico Se Levanta.

Poetry

Siluetas

These hospitals are cemeteries with walls. Don’t move me. Don’t take me. If our lives were eternal, there would be no sense in living. How could the worth of a…