Table of Contents:
  • The Horse and Rider / Tomas Q. Morin
  • Poetry in Concert with the Visual Arts: Latinx Ekphrasis and Other Inter-arts Fusions / Brenda Cardenas
  • What the Neoliberal Policy Labs Eat and Shit: Horrific Fables for a Specific Universe / Daniel Borzutzky
  • Glorious View: Landscapes of Memoria / Francisco Aragon
  • Peopleness: Ethnicity and the Latinx Poem / Valerie Martinez
  • My Latino Aesthetics. Or Not. / Steven Cordova
  • An Afro-Latino's Poetic and Creative Hungers / Sean Frederick Forbes
  • Trauma and the Lyric / Sheryl Luna
  • La Desembocada: Healing the Wound That Never Heals / ire'ne lara silva
  • Longing for a Language That Joins: Class Consciousness in Portuguese American Poetry / Carlo Matos
  • Let's Call the Whole Thing Off: Or, the Possibilities of a Contemporary US Latin@ Poetry / Rafael Campo
  • How I Came to Identify as a Latina Writer / Adela Najarro
  • A Graffiti Artist in Academia / Michael Torres
  • Puerto Rican Poetry and a State of Independence: A Family Affair / Blas Falconer
  • Notes on Teaching and Learning the Mother Tongue / Juan J. Morales
  • Duende the Poem, or Poetics at the Intersection of Realities and Identities / Raina J. Leon
  • Testarudo: An Essay on My Poetic Vocation / Orlando Ricardo Menes
  • To Have and Have Not: Uncovering the Cultural Identity in Twenty-First-Century Portuguese American Literature / Millicent Borges Accardi
  • Invention as Discovery: An Essay on Latino/a Poetics / Andres Rojas
  • Notes on Writing Poetry and the Function of Language / Eva Maria Saavedra
  • Stealing the Crown / Laurie Ann Guerrero
  • Knocking on Heaven's Couplets: The Nature and Function of Poesia / Natalia Trevino