Latinx poetry has a rich history of exploring the boundaries of the artform: Juan Felipe Herrera’s experimental forms, and Mónica de la Torre’s innovative approaches to translation and collaboration, among many others. ...
LAR Latinx Digital Poetics: An Electronic Literature Folio
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
Ode to the Pollo Asado Burritos from Alberto's Tacos
I am faithful to you. Faithful, like the sun and moon. I howl like a Mexican Ranchera singer when I'm hangry for you. Just enough guacamole, pico de gallo, ...
Two Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz
LAR Online, Poetry
I know what a body emptied
of its light, feels like on the palms.
I have seen a body emptied of
its memory, I dread the open eyes,
even though I don’t dream of them ...
Empty by Hussain Ahmed
LAR Online, Poetry
Matthew Burnside is the author of Wiki of Infinite Sorrows and Postludes, both from KERNPUNKT press. He teaches at Hollins University.
10 April ...
rockinghorse daydream called yes by Matthew Burnside
LAR Online, Poetry
In the end, Houston will launch us into outer spaceonce more. We’ll peer at what they call the little blue engine —
They’ll call it EARTH or a FAILURE in the distant future.They’ll tell us the story of ...
Lone Star by Sebastián H. Páramo
LAR Online, Poetry
It’s easier to pretend the wind is waves—
the new leaves of our pecan swelling
helpless but heavy are bladderwrack,
the porch lamp long unscrewed
from its base and dangling
by a single wire is ...
Lubbock Spring by Emma Aylor
LAR Online, Poetry
I decided to make my own masa
against the will of my mother
who spent much of her own life
taking corn to the mill
or grinding it on stone.
I decided to make my own ...
I Decided to Make My Own Masa by Ramon Jimenez
LAR Online, Poetry
Archetype
Sometimes, Father is just a man
spinning out of Grandmother's drive; his car,
a black dog, chrome teeth spitting gravel
on gifts left in porch light.
Sometimes, he's a soldier ...
2 Poems by K.D. Harryman
LAR Online, Poetry
I’m approached by two men, one that I hope to sleep with, the other someone that I simply want to be close to. The one that I am hoping for hands me a white pillowcase with something in it, and I immediately ...