Poetry We Admire: Latinx Poets
This September, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by Latinx poets.
Poetry
We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.
Before That
“Before wishes they were trees. / Three flat rooted pines under her breath,”
THE HARBINGER
“In every dim stroke of lightning I saw the touch / of your hand,”
Dreams
“The star you watched / each night has burned out”
In The Open
“It was a long summer, then / a long autumn, without walls.”
Gatsby Woman
“Nevermind the shattered glass / on the front porch.”
Fallows and Fault Lines (I)
“Flashes / of nacre rising from silt; another name / for the buried mother.”
War Leaves a Language (Dream Notes)
“You might say that in lieu of my fury, / this poem contains questions.”
Isaac’s Memory
“Beneath / my father’s horror, I saw a kind of joy”