Poetry
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Becoming Coztōtōtl | Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros
Becoming Coztōtōtl is about history and its influence. How the past shapes us and how it can inspire us. Like “Becoming”, where the speaker declares herself to be an illuminated bird rising from a torn chest, many of these poems are anthems for the reader​Continue reading... 3/3/19

Teeth Never Sleep | Ángel García
“Estas palabras no son mías”. So begins Teeth Never Sleep by Ángel García, winner of the CantoMundo Poetry Prize. In the first poem of the collection, “El Esposo De La Llorona Habla”, we encounter themes that appear repeatedly in the collection: masculine failure Continue reading... 3/2/19
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La llama inclinada | Carlos Satizábal - Translated by Jennifer Rathbun
An ardent, bilingual, poetry collection by the Colombian poet Carlos Satizábal and translator Jennifer Rathbun. La llama inclinada / The inclined Flame published by Artepoética Press is a link Continue reading... 10/11/18
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Tamarindo Dreams | Roberto A. Rocha
​​Images of love, loss, family and hope fill the pages of Roberto A. Rocha's debut poetry book, Tamarindo Dreams: A Collection of Barrio Poetry.  In this poetic collection, we encounter the rich culture of South Texas and the journey of a man who tenderly longs Continue reading... 9/8/18
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Rachel McKibbens | blud
​Despite all that has been written in poetry about trauma and its devastating influence, blud by Rachel McKibbens manages to say something new, and says it in howling, brutal lines that deserve repeated visits. McKibbens covers a landscape filled with Continue reading... 3/15/18
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Ire'ne Lara Silva | Blood Sugar Canto
Filled with powerful narratives, Blood Sugar Canto by ire’ne lara silva grapples with the enormity of diabetes and its many complications. Written without capitals or punctuation, the collection moves with a frantic pace that mirrors the speaker’s Continue reading... 9/2/17
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Sheila Maldonado | One-Bedroom Solo
One-Bedroom Solo is a free spirited, rhythmic poetry collection by Sheila Maldonado with a wide range melody. At times, her poetry is serious and painfully profound. Other times it is casual, relaxed and even silly. She speaks without holding back Continue reading... 4/4/17
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Maria Palitachi | Voces de América Latina
An array of powerful voices that echo the throbbing heartbeat of Latin America. Voces de América Latina is a poetic anthology edited by María Palitachi and includes over 80 poets from from all walks of life. In this anthology we find representatives from Continue reading... 2/25/17​
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Samuel Trigueros | Exhumaciones
In the poetry book, Exhumaciones, the author Samuel Trigueros makes visible, as part of his own catharsis, the injustices of his people. He digs into the anonymous realities with an honest lexicon, nude metaphors and powerful images. Without Continue reading... 11/13/16
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Daniel Montoly | Papeles robados al más allá
Filled with absorbing metaphors, Papeles robados al más allá is a Spanish poetry book by Daniel Montoly that takes us on an emotional and thought-provoking literary journey. The collection of poems is divided into three sections with a variety of topics that Continue reading... 10/23/16
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Antología 2016 (FeIPoL)
The Antología 2016 (FeIPoL) is a poetry anthology that gives testimony of a united Latino community and includes some of the greatest and most relevant Latino poets of our time, such as: the United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Lucha Corpi (U.S.), Continue reading... 8/28/16
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Juan Felipe Herrera | Laughing Out Loud, I Fly
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly is a colorful and joyous poetry book that teaches us to "fly towards the good things" in life. This bilingual poetry collection by the U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, brings back childhood rainbows and laughter; it reminds us of Continue reading... 10/30/16
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Antonieta Villamil | Arcana de los dominio imaginantes
Arcana de los dominio imaginantes is a personal anthology where Antonieta Villamil gives us 40 years of her poetry compiled into one book; a collection that contains the best of 14 titles. She is a socially committed poet, committed with herself in making sure that Continue reading... 10/2/16
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Adela Najarro | Twice Told Over
Twice Told Over is an intimate poetry collection by Adela Najarro which germinates like a mangrove that multiplies itself with her grandmother's stories and the blue-fields of Nicaragua. Marked by her family and heritage, Adela shares images of an endless green, Continue reading... 6/18/16
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Don Cellini | Stone Poems
Stone Poems is a poetry collection by Don Cellini where stones are revealed as a profound symbolic axis for human existence. They are a symbol that encompass all things prior to life, as well as the course of human history and everything that will remain when Continue reading... 7/3/16
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Leonardo Nin | Poemas ​en blanco y negro
Poemas en blanco y negro is a Spanish poetry book by Leonardo Nin where the exploration of racial identity is intertwined with a sense of belonging, abandonment and memories. In the first part of this poetic collection, Nin attempts to answer his most Continue reading... 6/12/16
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Armando Alanis Pulido | Balacera 
Balacera is a Spanish poetry collection by Armando Alanís Pulido with phrases that at times make you feel like the victim and suddenly like the culprit. What’s it like to be a coward, a kidnapped, a zeta? Who robbed the northern towns of Mexico from its peace Continue reading... 6/5/16
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Laura Carnovale | Tengo un cielo en la cocina
Tengo un cielo en la cocina is the first poetry book by the Argentinian author Laura Carnovale. In the synchronism of her words, the reader discovers intimate nuances that lie within the literary symbolism of a home and everything in it, Continue reading... 7/2/16
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Lucha Corpi | Palabras de mediadía / Noon Words
Palabras de mediodía / Noon Words ​is a powerful bilingual poetry book by Lucha Corpi which includes social and telluric themes, speaking volumes regarding colonialism, the role of women, as well as her family and immigrant identity. In this book, Lucha Continue reading... 5/15/16
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Leticia Sandoval | Versos para no dormir solos
Versos para no dormir solos is an erotic Spanish poetry book by Leticia Sandoval, filled with brief and discrete yet tantalizing verses of corporeal and ethereal dimensions; of seductive and enticing proportions. ​The magnetism of this erotic Continue reading... 4/9/16

Lima :: Limón | Natalie Scenters-Zapico
f the border is a person—a living site of war, violence, ownership, displacement, disputation, nepantla—then it is woman. In Lima :: Limón, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s second powerful collection, the border is a fully-developed character speaking through various voices: all of them women Continue reading... 3/1/19
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Image of Absence | Jeannette Clariond
Translated by Curtis Bauer
​The bilingual poetry collection, Image of Absence, by the Mexican poet, Jeannette L. Clariond, is a bridge between the mystical and the telluric—an elegant ensemble of lyricism accentuated by Continue reading...  9/16/18
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Phantom Tongue | Steven Sánchez
​​One of the more exciting things about Phantom Tongue, the first full-length collection by Steven Sanchez, is how skillfully it grapples with the big question of silence. How does a person create in a language not their own? How does someone claim the Continue reading... 8/19/18
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José Ángel Araguz | Until We Are Level Again 
​​Until We Are Level Again by José Angel Araguz unwinds in poems anchored to the everyday, letting simple language carve out intimate details. The beauty of the collection is found in understated lines that seed themselves in the mind and unravel slowly Continue reading... 5/31/18
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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal | Beast Meridian
​Beast Meridian introduces us to a wildly inventive voice in Latinx literature. In her first full-length collection, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal confounds and delights with poems that are challenging, experimental, and deeply engrossing. Dealing with family Continue reading... 3/19/18
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Frank Varela | Diaspora: Selected and New Poems
​In the poem “Autobiography”, Frank Varela explains how “Identity was never a question / of geography and language / or time in distance” and how he “was always on the outside looking in”. With vivid scenarios depicting the stages and the cultures of his Continue reading... 2/16/18
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Javier Zamora | Unaccompanied
Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied is more than an autobiographical immigrant narrative of a child from El Salvador traveling to the United States. In poems with tones both brutal and tender “I mistake bullet casings / for cormorant beaks diving” Continue reading... 11/28/17
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Fiorella Pierantozzi | Odas al Mundo
​​In a poetic world tour full of wonder, the Italian-Mexican author, Fiorella Pierantozzi, highlights the beauty and mysticism of 58 countries around the world. Her poetry collection, Odas al Mundo, celebrates the countries' spirits, cultures, as well as their Continue reading... 10/15/17
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Manuel A. Lopez | El arte de perder/The Art of Losing
​Charged with intense and captivating images, El arte de perder / The art of Losing brings forth the complex theme of loss in its many forms. This bilingual poetry collection by Manuel Adrián López narrates, from a personal and unique perspective, Continue reading... 9/25/17
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El cuaderno verde del CHE
Hours before his assassination, four people including a CIA agent looked through Ernesto "Che" Guevara's belongings in which amongst other items, they found a green notebook, according to Paco Ignacio Taibo II, author of El cuaderno verde del CHE. Continue reading... 8/7/17
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Eduardo Senac | La precisión de la fiebre
La precisión de la fiebre is a thought-provoking book of Spanish poetic prose by Eduardo Senac that speaks of the relationship between love and the creative writing process. Or as the author states, "...the human soul, and what literature can make of it." Continue reading... 4/21/17
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Yesenia Montilla | The Pink Box
The Pink Box is a collection of gracefully written, but sometimes heartbreakingly beautiful poems by Yesenia Montilla. A running thread through the collection, Montilla uses the image of the “pink box” to anchor the reader as she tackles very personal and Continue reading... 3/20/17
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Christopher Carmona | 140 Twitter Poems
140 Twitter Poems is a vivid collection of personal, social and philosophically driven poems by Christopher Carmona and translated by Gerald Padilla. This bilingual collection was originally published on Twitter over 140 days, from December 1, 2015 to Continue reading... 2/4/17
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Antología de Poesía Joven (FeIPoL)
The Antología de Poesía Joven (FeIPoL) is a megaphone that amplifies the voices of one hundred High School students who live in the United States - Mexico borderlands. Three major topics stand out from this compilation: immigration, Continue reading... 1/16/17
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The Border Crossed Us
Whether you believe in ars gratia artis or see art inextricably intertwined with society, it is an undeniable fact that when social turmoil arises, artists will make themselves heard. This is the case of The Border Crossed Us, a poetic anthology to end the apartheid Continue reading... 12/18/16​
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Silvia Favaretto | La noche de los cuerpos
La noche de los cuerpos is a Spanish poetry book by Silvia Favaretto which includes, just as the title and book cover suggest, poems soaked with ardent passions and shades of darkness. "Este libro es mi ataúd" says the author, as blood drips from the pages with Continue reading... ​7/18/16
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Rossy Evelin Lima | Aguacamino
Aguacamino is a brutally honest and socially charged poetry collection by Mexican native Rossy Evelin Lima. In it, she describes her soul piercing experience as an undocumented immigrant in a mighty and unwavering voice that burns like Continue reading... 6/17/16
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Nadia Contreras | Cumplimiento de la voluntad
Cumplimiento de la voluntad is a Spanish personal anthology by Nadia Contreras that compiles published works from 1999 to 2014. In Cumplimiento, readers are exposed to a mirror that portrays Contreras’ most intimate reflections; images that Continue reading... 6/10/16
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Norma Elia Cantu | Transcendental Train Yard
​Transcendental Train Yard is a free spirited book of reflection and creative collaboration, composed by Norma Elia Cantú's wholehearted poetry and the colorful serigraphs of Marta Sánchez. It is difficult for the Latino community to think about trains Continue reading... 5/8/16