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Poet Kay Ulandy Barret, “Feeds those who’ve been erased, made voiceless…”
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Re-is a prefix that means “back” or “again”, a way of looking back and forward simultaneously. We reimagine, remix, and reinvent. These powerful words are the perfect accompaniment to queer poetry, which is forever filling in silences and creating new worlds. Though queerness and queer artistry have gained visibility in recent years (especially within social media channels) there are still
Poet, Raquel Gutiérrez, “Don’t be afraid to belong to each other.”
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Latinx identity is an incredible blend of movements, cultures, and language. It is also an identity that continues to face considerable challenges, including inhumane migration policies, and inaction by Congress, which continually threatens to defer the
American Dream for the undocumented Latinx community.
But despite these inequalities, still they rise. One poet on our list arrived in the US in her mother’s belly, while another challenged the notion that one must provide “proof of citizenship” to create art. And thus, we celebrate the lives and experiences of these five Latinx poets, who use their poetry as artful protest, and bridge their multitudinous identities with mastery and courageous truth-telling.
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Anyone can write a poem. To be a poet, though to have your work read in an age not exactly teeming with famous verse stylists, Amanda Gorman aside you have to submit. Every year, poets around the country submit their work for dozens of prizes and contests, hoping for a shot at prestige, visibility, maybe eventually an academic job offer. It’s a difficult path, and until recently it was an impossible one for poets like Javier Zamora.
Zamora earned his MFA in poetry in 2014 at New York University under the best writers in the country. He’d been published in literary journals like Narrative and Meridian (and would be in the New Republic and the New York Times). But in his early years, he was largely excluded from prizes, contests and fellowships.