epub |eng | | Author:Alberto Ríos

The sudden angle of beginning. ORANGES IN A TREE 1 The oranges in a tree won’t fly away If you’re quiet. If you’re quiet You can see them in their ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

SOMETIMES I LONG FOR THE SWEET MADNESS The mystery that would spiral my soul into a seashell some seafaring explorer would blow in his coming, his arrival, his company, his ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-13 | Author:Sandra Cisneros [Cisneros, Sandra]

For the New Year I will buy myself a chocolate éclair filled with custard. Eat it slowly, with an infinity of joy, without concern of woe and tight underwear. Susan’s ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-08 | Author:Janel Pineda

II. Fellowship Application The Commission’s criteria includes: (1) Ability to be Tokenized (2) Strength of Migrant Mentality (3) Diplomatic Disposition (4) Self-care or private health insurance. (The fourth category was ...

epub |eng | | Author:Angel Dominguez

Dear Diego, The world is going to end before I ever stop writing to you. Diego, the problem is that we don’t want it enough; it’s that it doesn’t matter ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-08 | Author:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

2. We make new friends then lose them. 3. We never bake another goddamn pie again. Either way it’s a terrible future. It’s a movie where no one seems interested ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Lorna Dee Cervantes

Doppelgänger Stare into the ice chest of autumn, past the lake and out into the river of years. Believe the self reflected there, the shadow. Put your hand into its ...

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epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Eduardo C. Corral [Corral, Eduardo C.]

Border Patrol Agent Summer is a puta. I park beneath branches, crank up the AC in the jeep. I hate the rearview mirror. It makes me look like my father. ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-28 | Author:Rachel McKibbens [McKibbens, Rachel]

spent myself on the courageless, have wasted too many clocks on the less-deserving, so I hurl myself at the throne of you & lie humbly at your feet. Last Love, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Yesika Salgado

Amargura h you asked me once lips wedged between mine, hands knuckle-deep into curls, bedsheets cocooning our bodies; would you be welcomed into this bed once married? the answer came ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco [Blanco, Richard]

EASY LYNCHING ON HERNDON AVENUE What I’d rather not see isn’t here: no rope, no black body under a white moon swaying limp from a tree, no bloodied drops of ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Lara Mimosa Montes

If I speak from a subject position that is no longer I carry the weight of the body that moves forward How do you come back from that for which ...

epub |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Michael Torres [Torres, Michael]

I’m building my own country. It looks like my 7-year-old self, rocking a Looney Tunes Raiders tee and throwing-up the Westside. My country doesn’t speak Spanish but it knows when ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Ada Limón

I wanted to be a hummingbird. It made sense to long for rapid wings and the ability to hover always—to be Huitzilopochtli taming my snakes. Sometimes though, the thought exhausts ...