​​I finished reading the book Body Facts several days ago. And yet, my brain still has not accurately processed the many feelings provoked by each poem. My imagination took a road trip; I found myself wandering in a yellow bus...

“Mami, I’ve stolen a word & and it’s brought me closer to you—…” A Review of Roberto Carlos Garcia’s [Elegies] Unapologetically vulnerable and intimate, [Elegies], Roberto Carlos Garcia’s third release, peels back the layers of language and culture to thread...

Tengo que admitir: pensaba que poseía poca apreciación por la poesía. Pero poetas como Roxana Calderón me inspiran las rimas. Después de escuchar la declamación de Amanda Gorman en la ceremonia de investidura del presidente Joe Biden, me comprometí a...

Are there any futures written out there in which my communities survive? This question provoked a conflict of distress and hope within me, launching my research on contemporary speculative fiction. It fueled my study on published Latina and LatinX writers,...

If a year ever needed to be escaped from, it was 2020. Como muchos in the BIPOC community, I had a tough time, what with job instability, violence, prejudice, global warming, crumbling democracy, and, oh yeah, una jodienda pandémica. To...

Horacio Quiroga, en su decálogo del perfecto cuentista, recomienda: “No empieces a escribir sin saber desde la primera palabra adónde vas. En un cuento bien logrado, las tres primeras líneas tienen casi la importancia de las tres últimas”. Visto con...

Ni tan lejos ni tan cerca. “El Alto” me hace sentir como que aunque no estoy allá, nunca me fui. Un paseo astral por la media isla; un baño de pueblo. Me transporté, caminé por la República y por el...

 A short story is a work of short, narrative prose that is usually centered around a single event, limited in scope as an introduction to such an event. In John Paul Infante’s On the Tip of My Mother’s Tongue, you...