Volume 17, Number 2 (2014)
Volume 17, Number 2, presents the topic of “Latin American and Latina/o Poetry in the 21st Century,” with critical essays on diverse poets who examine issues of diaspora, childbirth, domestic violence, Indigenous experience and community voices, as well as philosophical assessments of poets. The issue includes an extensive array of creative work by poets from throughout the Americas.Articles
The Regions of Poetry
Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
De acá de este lado: Musings on Latina/o Poetry
Norma Elia Cantú
Los poetas y el gobierno de la palabra: Apuntes sobre la inmortalidad
Juana Iris Goergen
To be an Indigenous Woman Poet in Mexico: An Artistic Act of Protest, Resistance and Battle
Wendy Call
The Chican@ Nueva Onda as a Poetic Tidal Wave: The Revitalization, Repoliticalization & Redefinition of “Chican@” Through Poetry
Christopher Carmona
Laboring Histories: The "Reconciliation" of Maternity in the Poetry of Laurie Ann Guerrero
Larissa M. Mercado-López
Reflections
Nepantleras del siglo XX al siglo XXI: Travesías de poesía de chicanas en español
María del Socorro Gutiérrez Magallanes
¿Qué dice la poesía?
Jorge Ortega
Interviews
"Locate Your Body in the World and Pay Attention": An Interview with the Poet Rigoberto González
Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez and Rigoberta González
Soy Milk! A Chicana Poet on "Drinking" Poetry: An Interview with Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Aldo Ulisses Reséndiz and Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Conversación con Tina Escaja, poeta
Salvador Oropesa and Tina Escaja
Rincón Creativo
Reflexiones en el Río Grijalva; Teoría del lenguaje; Viajando en bus por Estados Unidos
Ernesto Cardenal
En plena noche; Alba; Amanece y callo
Hugo Mujica
Puerta de Atocha - Estación de los Desamparados
Eduardo Chirinos
Renacimiento; Tanguera.
Zulema Moret
Choqequirau
Santiago Weksler
China poblana; Sílabas de viento
Xánath Caraza
Iquitos …; El mar antes del infierno; Casa
Ana Varela Tafur
Lo que nunca me imaginé
Emmanuel Ayala
Viento en llamas; Hay una estrella segura en su blancura; Toda belleza es vaticinio
Jeannette L. Clariond
Laudes; Tercia
Gerardo Cárdenas
Nubes; Clouds; Acción; Thanksgiving
Juan Felipe Robledo
La portadora; Sinfonía negra
Mario Meléndez
Invidencia; Pecatum primus
Juan Antonio González
Raíz; Ruido del desbalance; Runa
Miguel Marzana
Una mujer baila; La purificación del templo; Equidad
Osvaldo Sauma
La arena enrojece tus ojos; Sand Reddens Your Eyes
Paolo de Lima
Dame tu hermana; Mocosa
Vickie Vértiz
La bella tormenta II
Alejandra Amezcua
Past and Present; Worth passing on
Rebeca Castellanos
Las lágrimas de mi madre; Segador de sueños; A dream.Bad.
Liliana Valenzuela
Letter from Angélica as Sor Juana; Memory in the Making: A Poetics
Rosemary Catacalos
Oscar López Rivera
Guillermo Rebollo-Gil
Laredo Riviera; [no toronjas]
Emmy Pérez
no more barbed wired fences; october 12, 2013
Ire'ne Lara Silva
Anhelos; I am Lactating
Angelina Sáenz
memory of today; sacred lands
Claudia Aburto Guzmán
Blind Eye; A Demon Meets Papa Cayo on the Road to Mictlan
Andrés Rodríguez
Aunt Mirta; Infancia
Florencia Milito
Maguey; Languaging; Tortilla Bones
Claire Joysmith
Red Road; Scar Tissue
Araceli Esparza
Conqueror; Her Words
Sylvia Riojas Vaughn
Wearing Her Wrangler Jeans and Payless Penny Loafers; My Grandfather Would Say
Yaccaira Salvatierra
About the Artist/Photographer
About the Artist: Daniel T. Lopez
Daniel T. Lopez
About the Artist: Alec Rudek
Alec Rudek
Book Reviews
Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization by Michael Dowdy
Grisel Y. Acosta
Purificados de Łukasz Czarnecki
Carlos López
“¿Te lo digo o te lo cuento …?” Guillermo Prieto en la prensa infantil (1888; 1895-1896) de Yolanda Bache Cortés, ed.
Margarita Peraza-Rugeley
Film Review
Bless Me, Última
Matt Yockey
Editors
- Editor
- Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
- Assistant Editor
- Cristina Rodríguez
- Poetry & Creative Editor
- Juana Iris Goergen
- Book Review Editor
- Bill Johnson González
- Film & Media Review Editor
- Ron Fernández, Mount St. Mary's College
- Editorial Consulting Board
- Gabriela Baeza Ventura, University of Houston
- Allert Brown-Gort, University of Notre Dame
- Norma E. Cantú, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- Rafael Chabrán, Whittier College
- Hilda Chacón, Nazareth College
- Arlene Dávila, New York University
- Gilda Ochoa, Pomona College
- Kim Potowski, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Luis Escala Rabadán, Colegio de la Frontera Norte
- María de los Angeles Torres, University of Illinois at Chicago
- CLR-DePaul Advisory Board
- Rocío Ferreira, Spanish
- Juana Iris Goergen, Spanish
- Bill Johnson González, English
- Megan Bernal, University Library
- Office Manager
- Christina Tus
- Student Staff
- Brenda E. Becerra
- Cindy Lima
- Paulina Nava
- Jaime Ochoa
- Copy Editing Services
- Ben Levitt
- Press
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