Anthony Ceballos presents Glassful of Prayer

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.

Anthony Ceballos is a poet, writer, and turkey sandwich enthusiast. In 2016, he was selected to be a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series mentee. His work has been featured in Yellow Medicine Review, Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose and Pride, Great River Review, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Randolph College's low-residency creative writing program in Virginia. He lives, breathes, and writes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He can be found penning staff recommendations at Birchbark Books and Native Arts

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