Benjamin Garcia is a Community Health Specialist who provides HIV/HCV/STD and opioid overdose prevention education to higher risk communities throughout New York’s Finger Lakes region. He was named the 2017 Latin@ Scholar at the Frost Place and was a finalist for the 2017 Boston Review Poetry Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Kenyon Review Online, Best New Poets 2016, As/Us, Gulf Coast, West Branch Wired, The Collagist, and PANK.
Mar/Apr 2020
The Great Glass Closet
2019 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest Runner-up This is not a metaphor: when I say that I lived in the closet, it’s because I lived in the closet. You might, […]
Resistance, Change, Survival
Warrior Song / Resist, Change, Survive: Learning to Sing
Warrior Song After Robert Pinsky When our mothers had no water for themselves we drank. When we had no bed, we mapped a plot in the dirt. We had to […]
Spring 2016
Le Daría Mis Pulmones
Toward the end, she could only lift a cup of coffee. Closer still,