July 23, 2019
Mix-Tape VII: All the Eguanas for What We Can’t Say
There are things happening right now in many families, like my own, too painful to share. So I will share this instead: My husband B spells iguana with an “E.” […]
June 13, 2018
Mix-Tape V: Featuring CantoMundo Poets
On June 22 & 23, CantoMundo, a fellowship organization dedicated to Latinx poetry and poetics, will hold its public readings at Barnard College. (Here’s more information on attending the event). I’ve written […]
April 12, 2017
Honoring Our Editors
At my last CantoMundo retreat in the summer of 2015, I wrote a poem called “Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7” which freed, rather than mourned, the many complexities and […]
December 31, 2016
Rituals of Hope: On New Year’s Resolutions
I never make resolutions on January 1 because for me, Rosh Hashanah ushers in the New Year, a time in which I enter a quiet, reflective solitude. But […]
September 12, 2016
In Silence We Became the Most Real
What’s best is on windy days when the smell of Antilles lilies or petrichor washes over me like an illusion of a warm summer day. —“Antillian Landscape,” Ruben […]
May 3, 2016
“Inundation of Texts”: Poets & Writers on Social Media
I think most poets and writers would agree that social media is both a blessing and a curse. While Facebook, Twitter and other social media brings us together across distances […]