This Is My Body takes us on a journey through times of darkness within the human experience, sitting with the trials of mental illness, queer sexuality, and the body.
Show Me the Bells, celebrates ecological, political, and social change amidst the crush of late-stage capitalism. Foregrounding the Nahuatl concept of Nepantla, the collection mobilizes imagery, music, and silences to awaken our real and raw memories and to honor the power of witnesses and conduits. Emphasizing the porousness of forms, it focuses us on the interconnectedness of love and seeks to reclaim the power we have given away.
In his debut collection, Portrait of Us Burning, Sebastián H. Páramo explores how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his half brother and to his family’s burning desire to become American.
Gronk was raised in East Los Angeles and lives in downtown LA. Gail Wronsky was raised in suburban Detroit and lives in the hippie haven of Topanga Canyon. But as artists they have found common ground—a shared commitment to the offbeat and the beautiful, to the slightly absurd and the slyly surreal.
Make a Poem Cry is an anthology of poems by inmates of a California high-security prison, written in classes given by former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis Rodríguez.
Dulce is a debut poetry chapbook by acclaimed young poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. His poetry invites readers to challenge and negate borders and categories between citizen and noncitizen, queer and straight, man and woman.
This book has essays by Reece and Luis J. Rodríguez as a backdrop to the girls’ voices, and a foreword and afterword by poets Marie Howe and Richard Blanco. Luis and his wife Trini, a poet, teacher, and indigenous healer, also helped teach at Our Little Roses and the Holy Family Bilingual School inside a walled compound in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Here poetry and stories transcend the pain of loss that often goes unexpressed. Here poetry serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration in the shadows. Here poetry can save lives.
Edited by Leticia Hernandez-Linares and Rubén Martínez
by Héctor Tobar and Juan José Dalton
Tia Chucha Press is proud to reprint by popular demand this anthology of work by Central American writers living in the United States. The Wandering Song captures the complexity of a rapidly...
The University of Hip Hop is a collection of eleven original poems by poet and performer Mayda Del Valle, winner of the National Poetry Slam Individual title and Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam Championship and National Poetry Slam Individual title. The collection is an homage to her hometown of Chicago.
