Korbin Jones
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Biography —
Korbin Jones was born and raised in rural Missouri. As the first in his family to receive a post-secondary education, he is an alumnus of Upward Bound and an advocate for first-generation students in academia. He received a Tinker Field Research grant and multiple Foreign Area and Language Studies fellowships as a graduate student at KU in order to study Paraguayan Guarani.
Education —
Specialization
lyric poetry, ecopoetics, magical realism, fabulist literature, Paraguayan history and folklore, linguistic anthropology, Guarani languages and peoples, Amazonian perspectivism, gender and sexuality, de/colonization
Research —
The development of Paraguayan identity and folklore due to the appropriation of Guarani language and culture for nationalist narratives, with a focus on the popular folk figures of Kurupi and Jasy Jatere.
Selected Publications —
SFO: Pictures and Poetry about San Francisco, translator (Tolsun Books 2019)
songs for the long night., author (QueerMojo 2019)
“MOONSICK,” author (Finishing Line Press 2020)
"ouroboros," author (Ghost City Press 2021)