Joshua Escobar is author of the chapbooks Califorkya Voltage (No, Dear/Small Anchor) and xxox fm (Doublecross Press), a full-length collection of poems, Bareback ...
Love Letter by Joshua Escobar
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. She is the author of Fighting Is Like a Wife (Coffee House Press, April 2022) and From the Inside Quietly, inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize ...
from The God Poems by Eloisa Amezcua
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
“Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone, who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.” — Audre Lorde, “A Burst of Light”
“Joy is an act of resistance.” — Toi ...
Introducing LAR Latinx Digital Poetics: Resistance Through Joy
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
Camilo Loaiza Bonilla (he/him) is a Latine writer working to unwind generational silence and trauma as a queer, trans, first-generation immigrant. A Macondista, he is pursuing his MFA at the ...
back to back by Camilo Loaiza Bonilla
Electronic Lit, Poetry
Angela Mendoza is a Chicana, Central American-American writer hailing from the Bay Area in Northern California. She recently graduated from the MFA program at San Diego State University, where she ...
Blue by Angela Mendoza
Electronic Lit, Poetry
Grace Mathews is a first year MFA student at San Diego State University and an intern forPoetry International. Her poems have been published in print editions of Open Ceilings andRed Wheelbarrow ...
Searching by Grace Mathews
Electronic Lit, Poetry
Artist Statement
Covid-19 continues to disproportionately impact communities of color everywhere. For so many months, the virus was all I thought about. It infected my thoughts in my fear for my friends ...
Sonnet IX by J. Michael Martinez
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
Artist Statement
I have been drafting variations of this poem for six years, when in a stairwell the poet javier a. lopez asked me about dogs and I replied, I don’t believe in animals. And the longer I ...
Tell Me by Anthony Cody
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
"It's Complicated"
Artist Statement
"It's Complicated" is inspired by a lifetime of considering and debating the issue of Puerto Rico's status in relation to the United States and triggered by the recent ...
It’s Complicated by Leonardo Flores
Electronic Lit, LAR Online