Poet, Artist, Book Writer
(480) 406-2987
caleb.e.delossantos@gmail.com
Caleb
Delos-Santos
About
Caleb Delos-Santos (he/him) is an English graduate student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In his four years of writing, Caleb has published poetry with over twenty literary magazines, including North Dakota Quarterly and the Madison Journal of Literary Criticism, and released three poetry collections: A Poet’s Perspective (2022), Once One Discovers Love (2023), and Leftover Poetry (2023). Caleb also won the 2022 Esselstrom Prize for Creative Writing and the West Wind Literary Magazine’s 2023 Best in Genre Award for his nonfiction. Today, Caleb teaches English as a teaching assistant, watches TV with his wife, and continues to pursue a writing career.
A Poet’s Perspective
A Poet’s Perspective is a series of poems focused on the complex contemplations, questions, and trials that poets, actors, and all artists constantly struggle with today. Each poem contains unique yet relatable elements of artistic reflection. Some even speak directly to the reader, searching for truth and hopeful answers to the modern challenges and obstacles that accompany creative pursuits. Of course, the collection intends to emotionally and spiritually connect to and encourage poets, actors, artists, and anyone who wrestles with artistic accomplishment, fulfillment, and acceptance.
Once One Discovers Love is a series of poems that focuses on the joys, struggles, and questions one experiences when first encountering love. Each poem illustrates the vibrant, outstanding, and wild elements and processes of developing young love, including discovering someone, dancing with them for the first time, finally admitting that you love them, anniversaries, and proposing. Through such expression, these poems boldly contemplate romantic and experiential love and its nature by questioning readers, the speaker’s romantic partner, God, and the universe and exploring how love changes how people see and appreciate family, friends, nature, everyday objects, and even dreams. The author even responds to and reinterprets poems and ideas present in his previous work, A Poet’s Perspective, to display how love can profoundly change a writer’s outlook. Above all, this collection strives to embody love and emotionally, thoughtfully, and spiritually connect to and inspire young adults, couples, artists, dreamers, and anyone hoping to discover love.
Leftover Poetry
Leftover Poetry is a unique collection that closely explores overlooked and disregarded objects, creatures, and experiences. By inspecting broken soda cans, busy flies, spilled drinks, and leftover Stromboli, these sincere poems unveil the complex realities, essential truths, and intricate emotions that inhabit even the most seemingly secondary elements of life. Several poems in this work distinctly examine the author’s previously ignored emotions as a learning young adult. Through such vibrant and authentic expressions, Leftover Poetry illustrates that all feelings and hardships, no matter how initially discounted, deserve recognition. This multifaceted collection demonstrates the profound wonder of neglected items, dismissed emotions, and even abandoned pieces. Leftover Poetry proudly showcases many poems rejected by magazines and initially deserted by the author to prove that all aspects of life, including the most forgotten experiences and art pieces, possess relevance and beauty. Ultimately, Leftover Poetry hopes to inspire artists, young adults, and all poetry lovers to look for the truth and brilliance behind life’s most leftover things.
