A SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS WITH ■ AS PROXY

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“A SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS WITH ■ AS PROXY” by c. melín lara is the winner of the 2025 Palette Poetry Prize, selected by Palette editors. We’re honored to share this exquisitely innovative poem with you.

 

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c. melín lara

c. melín lara a.k.a Car Lara is a Queens, NYC (Lenapehoking) born multidisciplinary artist and experimental writer of Mexican and Honduran heritage. A recipient of the 2024–25 Emerge–Surface–Be Fellowship at the Poetry Project, their bilingual work explores transculturality and mythic-domestic entanglements by way of translation play, verses shaped by typographic symbols and asemic transliterations. Believing in a poetry-art intersection, they also integrate the mediums of ceramics, collage, illustration, and occasionally, sonic performance into their practice. Their work has appeared in Fine Print Press, Noir Sauna, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and is forthcoming in ANMLY.

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