Cintia Santana’s poetry, fiction, and translations have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Narrative, Pleiades, RHINO, Spillway, Threepenny Review, and other journals. The recipient of a CantoMundo Fellowship and a Djerassi Resident Artists Program Fellowship, she teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. Most recently, Mary Szybist selected Santana’s work for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology.
Poetry
July/Aug 2018
Inherit
In her, it. It, in her. Heredi- tary she heard it said. Or somewhere read. Her hair. Her thinning hair. Her hear- ing, poor. Her heir. She was. In her […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2018
Dear O,
Out of the box, the frying pan, the gate running, I won this life on the nod. Odd it is to be or not be. So I loosen the noose […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2017
Scales
How Does This Compare with Other Mass Shootings? — New York Times, June 12, 2016 On one hand, I hold the iPhone, all news made small, and on the other, […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2017
Hum
Slip of bird with fan of furious wings in blossom’s throat I hear your wing -beat sing. To nectar you need no key, mid-rib of leaf or sip fromlittle red […]
Cintia Santana
Cintia Santana’s poetry, fiction, and translations have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Narrative, Pleiades, RHINO, Spillway, Threepenny Review, and other journals. The recipient of a […]