Jasminne Mendez is an Afro-Latina poet, educator, and award winning author. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by or forthcoming in the Acentos Review, Crab Creek Review, Texas Review, La Galeria, Label Me Latino/a, Gulf Coast, Bird’s Thumb, The Rumpus, and COG Magazine. She is a senior contributing editor at Queen Mob’s Teahouse and the author of two poetry/prose collections: Island of Dreams (Floricanto Press, 2013), which won an International Latino Book Award, and Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry (Arte Público Press, 2018).
Jan/Feb 2019
To El Hombre Dominicano Who Told Me It Was Not My Place to Write about Dominican/Haitian Relations
after Lorna dee Cervantes & Rosebud Ben-Oni My body is a midnight church. & when the blue of your mouth broke open a black estuary depositing soiled slurs & sediment, […]