Natalie Scenters-Zapico is most recently the author of Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Winner of a Windham Campbell Prize, she is the author of poems published in The New Republic, Colorado Review, and New England Review, among others.
Poetry
Winter 2024
En Cognato
I eat cereal from a two-dolár McDonald’s glass. Cadmium-laced red Ronalds dance up and down to inaudible música. McDonald’s will buy the glass back for three dólares, but why bother? […]
Poetry
Winter 2024
Falso Cognato
I tie a ropa embroidered with medals of pregnant virgins around my waist. On the shelf an angel’s cheeks swollen red, forever ready to blow the horno at his lips. […]
Poetry
Winter 2024
In Cognate
The cognate hides in plain sight little spies everywhere, no sense without them. Legislation of barbarous imperialism in dull black ink the letters remain the same. It is the order […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2018
Receta en el cajón
Ingredients Mezcal DogsBay LeavesCoffee Stars Cow FeetOnionMesh Sieve TripeNarrow BonesChiles GuajillosTinita Copal Oregano LimesTortilla HenGarlicSaltLadle Directions 1. When your macho comes home gurgling a bottle of mezcal, begin the menudo. […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2018
Macho :: Hembra
I cleaned chiles until my fingers burned to feed him. Like my father did to my mother at parties, he called me tontita. When we danced, I pressed my body […]
Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing, 2017) and Lima :: Limón, forthcoming (Copper Canyon Press). She has won awards and fellowships from the […]