Jose Corpas

Writer, essayist, editor

United States

I write better than anything Ai.
I'm an essayist, author, journalist, and copywriter from New York.
Member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and a committee member of the New York Boxing Hall of Fame.
Contact at hozay121 (@) yahoo (dot) com

Portfolio
City Journal
12/29/2023
Last of Their Kind

Reflections on a multigenerational home in Brooklyn

Plough
01/07/2020
In the Valley of Lemons

Jose Corpas tells the story of Tita Evertsz and the La Limonada neighborhood of Guatemala City. It was a neighborhood that the police rarely entered, even though it is home to more than sixty thousand people and sits at the foot of the country's Supreme Court building.

City Journal
12/15/2023
Soldiers on the Highways, Again

A personal reflection on Guatemala, where the nation's new president claims that he has been subject to "a coup in slow motion."

City Journal
03/29/2022
Death of a Homeless Man

On most days during my morning walks, it's just me, my bulldog, and the brightening sky. One day, last August, before honking cars crowded Ditmas Avenue, an ambulance stood in the middle of the street, a motionless body covered in a white sheet on the ground in front of it.