Poetry

Putinoika | Giannina Braschi
The study of literary works will never be exhaustive enough. There will always be some superficial first readings and other deeper ones that can rediscover certain secret nooks. This would be the case of Putinoika, a formidable book by Giannina Braschi that requires Continue reading... 11/30/24​

Syndrome | Éric Morales-Franceschini
Syndrome by Éric Morales-Franceschini, awarded the prestigious 2022 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and selected by Juan Felipe Herrera, is a poignant exploration of Puerto Rican identity and diasporic consciousness. Through a vivid tapestry of poetic forms Continue reading... 3/30/24
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El Escudo de Chile | Luis Correa-Díaz
El Escudo de Chile [Chilean Coat of Arms] (México: Editorial Oxeda, 2023. 140 pages), the latest collection by the prolific Chilean-American poet and critic Luis Correa-Díaz continuously delights in its inventiveness while never letting the reader get too comfortable Continue reading... 1/14/23

Enraizada | Miriam Damaris Mardivino
In "Enraizada," Miriam Damaris Mardivino weaves a tapestry of verses, vibrant as the Caribbean sun, grounded as the ancient trees of Puerto Rico. Her journey in this poetic collection is a declaration of love and longing, invoking the primal and the divine, the carnal Continue reading... 5/20/23

Magnificent Errors | Sheryl Luna
Wheat Ridge resident Sheryl Luna's third book of poetry shines a spotlight on people living so far in the margins that they are invisible. She uses the soft focus lens of her poetry to illuminate and transform ugly issues like sexual abuse into something beautiful and healing Continue reading... 5/29/22

Poemas en blanco y negro | Leonardo Nin
Poemas en blanco y negro, by Dominican writer Leonardo Nin, has been republished this past November by Índole Editores, from El Salvador. Its release is a new opportunity to have a singular poetic experience, in which opposites confront and fight, but also mix and Continue reading... 12/20/21
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Mother/Land | Ananda Lima
With tremendous experimentation in form, in Mother/Land, poet Ananda Lima grapples with the desolation of diaspora and how maternal love cannot always overcome the vast universe's apparent indifference. The collection is divided into three sections. Continue reading... 12/7/21

The Miracle Unfolds | Juana Rosa Pita, Erin Goodman
The Miracle Unfolds by Cuban American poet Juana Rosa Pita (Havana, 1939), translated into English by Erin Goodman (Song Bridge Project, October 2021), is an extensive anthology of poems selected by Pita and Goodman from seven different volumes of Continue reading... 10/24/21

Deseos/ Longings/ J'amerais tant | Gustavo Gac-Artigas
In the act of being articulated, desire both deepens and diminishes. In Deseo/ Longings / J’aimerais tant, Chilean writer Gustavo Gac-Artigas captures the nuances of this paradox in poems of searing emotional clarity. When fully lived, his poems insist, Continue reading... 9/9/21

Floaters: Poems | Martín Espada
Ruth Lilly Prize-winning poet Martin Espada draws on a deep well of experiences as a Puerto Rican activist, lawyer, and poet in this electrifying latest collection, Floaters. The book runs the gamut from scathing socio-political commentaries on the state Continue reading... 3/6/21

[Elegies] | Roberto Carlos Garcia
Family history as mythology and elegy as ode collide in this wondrous collection, [Elegies], by Roberto Carlos Garcia. Keenly aware of the traditions in which he weaves his personal family narratives into poetry, Garcia engages deeply with the work of other BIPOC Continue reading... 2/3/21

Ese golpe de luz | Gabriel González Núñez
Ese Golpe de Luz offers a detailed recount of poetic observations, a circular voyage from the cosmos to life's routines. González Núñez presents this poetry collection like someone opening the doors to his house, with a domestic simplicity that makes us Continue reading... 12/2/20

 Postcolonial Love Poems | Natalie Diaz
 ​Mac Arthur Fellow poet Natalie Diaz’s second collection of poetry, Postcolonial Love Poem, captures a sense of desire and centers the ugly legacies of colonialism. Many of the luminous poems express sensuality through visceral imagery, but they also create a new Continue reading... 8/1/20 
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​Catrachos | Roy G. Guzmán
In the collection "Catrachos", Roy Guzmán explores both the alienation of the Honduran diaspora in the US and also the precarious, too often violent existence of queer bodies worldwide. The stunning experimentation and vivid details communicate an aching Continue reading... 6/27/20
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Why I Am Like Tequila | Lupe Mendez
In the poetry collection "Why I am like Tequila", Lupe Mendez illuminates the Texas Chicanx experience both past and present, while also laying bare the joys and pitfalls of being a teacher, caretaker, and father to be. At a time when the personal -Latinx identity-  Continue reading... ​2/4/20
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Cruel Fiction | Wendy Trevino
The magic of Wendy Trevino’s poetry collection amply named Cruel Fiction is its unmasking of cruel fictions in our routine treatment of injustices in the criminal justice system, popular culture, and race. Trevino’s poems consistently critique and expose contradictions Continue reading... 6/1/19

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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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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Confieso que escribo | Gustavo​ Gac-Artigas
Chilean poet Gustavo Gac-Artigas invites us to join him on a heroic journey in search of purpose and affirmation. Achingly personal, yet at the same time universal, Gac-Artigas’s elegant poetry chronicles his quest to reveal life’s meaning (“What purpose lies within Continue reading... 10/18/24
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El lenguaje que la nombra | Enrique Bernales Albites
The collection of poems El lenguaje que la nombra takes us on a journey to different places and experiences of the human condition. In the foreword, Mercado summarizes the book as a philosophical, spiritual, and poetic reflection. However, another important aspiration Continue reading... 1/29/24

El ombú desterrado | Enrique Infante
With the rhythm and the weight of their words, the poems on the interior of El ombú desterrado tell about man in movement, unified with the Earth that he inhabits. The strong presence of an ancestral Homeland, it's history, it's beliefs, and it's language creates Continue reading... 7/19/23

Tourist | Poetry by Tak Erzinger
The poetry collection Tourist encompasses a journey that unburdens the weight of past guilt and trauma. During this voyage spanning multiple cultures and stages in life, the importance of following one’s inner voice and embracing one’s own path is discovered. Continue reading... 2/13/23

Speaking con su Sombra | Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
​Speaking con su Sombra is an emotional, poetic train in which the reader accompanies its author, Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, on a journey of love, loss, and longing. In every one of the seventy-three poems, the speaker is bereaved and still mourning the death of the Continue reading... 1/12/22

Coatilicue Girl | Gris Muñoz
The perfect blend of humor with a dash of melancholy, Muñoz's bilingual collection of poems and stories sheds light on growing up near the border, strong maternal familial ties, and nascent queer desire. The book seamlessly skips between poems and prose, Continue reading... ​12/13/21
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Americana-lcd | Luis Correa-Díaz
Americana-lcd by Luis Correa-Díaz is a democratic, post- modern, literary treasure that reflects on American demo- cracy: its current state, the perils it faces and generates, and the aspirations it holds for the future. It accomplishes all of this and more in a Continue reading... 11/26/21
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Por los eneros sórdidos | Alexis Soto Ramírez
The poetry collection of this outstanding Cuban poet could be called, with good reason, a baroque banquet given that it incorporates all the elements of this aesthetics and path of understanding human existence: mirrors, the grotesque, humor, sensuality, death, Continue reading... 10/2/21

Bosque | Michelle Otero
To define something is to create a strict border detailing a set of criteria allowing one to easily recognize whether an item fits within the parameters of the definition or not. The act of defining any one thing is an easy way to essentialize any one thing. Continue reading... 6/23/21
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At the Foot of the Mountain | Take Erzinger
TAK Erzinger brings to radiant life the feelings of solitude, trauma, and healing in her poetry collection At the Foot of the Mountain. With deft precision, Erzinger puts tangible sensation to events and emotions that often exist only in the ephemeral space. Continue reading... 3/22/21

Tierra de noches inmensas | Belén Atienza
Tierra de noches inmensas is the debut poetry collection by the Spanish writer Belén Atienza. A powerful debut and a dazzling sample of contemporary Spanish poetry. Speaking from the music and exuberance of the oral and poetic tradition of her Andalusian Continue reading... 1/2/21

Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out | Rooster Martinez and Chibbi Orduña
Contra is an anthology collecting the voices of 40 Texas poets from rural and metropolitan areas uniting with a purpose that speaks directly to the reality of 2020. In their introduction, editors Christopher Martinez Continue reading... 11/15/20

Ri Ajilanel Ajkotz'i'j / El contador de flores | Adrián Guarchaj Ajtzalam
Ri Ajilanel Ajkotz'i'j / El contador de flores by the Ajq'ij Diego Adrián Guarchaj Ajtzalam, with a foreword by Apab'yan Tew, contains poems in K'iche' translated into Spanish by the linguist Oscar Ajkaj, grandson Continue reading... 7/24/20 
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Hermosa | Yesika Salgado
In the poetry collection “Hermosa”, Yesika Salgado brings forth a life in multitudes as she writes about her home of Los Angeles, lingering love, the healing power of friendship, childhood memories brought into the stark light of adulthood, complicated deaths Continue reading... 12/6/19

1923 | José Ernesto
1.9.2.3. is a river of memories that runs deep within the speaker's veins. The Spanish poetry collection by the Puerto Rican author, José Ernesto, is a warm and at times painful ode to his family—those who have passed away and those who are still with him. The poems Continue reading... 5/7/19 

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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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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El arte de perder/The Art of Losing | Manuel A. Lopez
​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
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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
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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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