POEMS

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"De luto y sin dopamina / Mourning Missing Dopamine"
poem in Raising Mothers
Across the Spectrum Issue
February 2022

"To the White Parenting 'Expert'"
poem in L.A. Parent
July 2020 Issue
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"Hechizo para congelar"
poem in Accolades: A Women Who Submit Anthology
March 2020

poem in UNMARGIN
July 2018

"Family Physician"
Bellevue Literary Review
Issue 36, June 2019

"I Imagine Him Small," "Mammals," and "Waiting for Cosmos”
​poems in Raising Mothers
January 2019

"Zika"
​poem in The Acentos Review
August 2018

"Momentos de María"
poem in Hinchas de Poesia
Issue 22, July 2018

"Adiós"
poem excerpt featured as epigraph in Halsey Street by Naima Coster
January 2018

"The View from the Hospital"
poem in Medical Literary Messenger: An Artistic Voice for the Healing Arts
Volume 4, No. 1, Page 23
Fall / Winter 2016

"Never"
poem in Black Rabbit Review
Issue 1
December 2016

"Pulse Puertorriqueño"
poem in The Brilliantina Project
July 26, 2016

"In Los Angeles,"
poem in Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles
Editors: Daniel A. Olivas, Neelanjana Banerjee, and Ruben J. Rodriguez
Introduction by Luis J. Rodriguez (Los Angeles Poet Laureate)
Tía Chucha Press, 2016

From the publisher:
"This anthology features the vitality and variety of verse in the City of Angels, a city of poets. This is more about range then representation, voice more than volume. Los Angeles has close to 60 percent people of color, 225 languages spoken at home, and some of the richest and poorest persons in the country. With an expansive 502.7 square miles of city (and beyond, including the massive county of 4,752.32 square miles), the poetry draws on imagery, words, stories, and imaginations that are also vast, encompassing, a real 'leaves of grass.'"
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"His  Thumb on My Belly"
poem in The Practice of Creativity Blog
​April 17, 2016

"Aquí" and "Here"
poems in Redux: A Literary Journal
March 1, 2016

"Intercessions" and "Miscarry"
poems in New Madrid: Journal of Contemporary Literature
Winter 2016

"Vulture," "His Thumb on My Belly," and "Comadre"
poems in Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA / Voices Writing Workshop
Editor: Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela
Introduction by Junot Díaz
Thread Makes Blanket, 2014

From the Publisher: "Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA) was founded by Elmaz Abinader, Junot Díaz, Victor Díaz and Diem Jones in 1999. Each envisioned an arts organization that could change the landscape for writers of color by supporting individual writer growth, creating a platform for community engagement and providing a workshop and mentor focus to expand writing opportunities. Over two thousand writers from around the globe have participated in VONA. Dismantle is an anthology of creative work from VONA alum and its award-winning teachers."

"After Yale"
poem & essay in Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education

editor: Jennifer De Leon
​University of Nebraska Press, 2014

"Mexi-Rican Love"
poem in Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems
Tupelo Press, 2012

"All I want is a lemon"
poem in CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action
Vol 1. Issue 5. Spring 2012
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poem reprinted in Fordham Magazine
August 25, 2020

"I Tease Your Momma 'Cause She's Fat and on Welfare"
poem in Bullying: Replies, Reuttals, Confessions, and Catharsis
An Intergenerational and Multicultural Anthology
Editors: Magdalena Gomez and María Luisa Arroyo.
Skyhorse Publishing, 2012

From the publisher: "Physical, emotional, verbal, and now cyber bullying are an increasing problem in our nation’s schools and within our children’s social networks. How can we understand it? Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents—both the victims and the bullies—to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives."

"El Pilón," "Infarto," "Santa Barbara de San Cristóbal," & "Something Sweeter than Fish"
poems in Centro: Letras. Fall 2011

"On Sundays"
poem online in ONSQU Blogtest. Fall 2011

"Fried Apple Pies," and "Letters"
poem in The Acentos Fellows Anthology. Zion Imprints. 2010
(limited edition chapbook)

"Pelo Bueno"
poem in PMS poemmemoirstory
Number Ten. 2010

"Confessions," "Colposcopy,"  and "La Señora"
poem in Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of MALCS
Vol 10. Issue 1. Fall 2010

"Letters"
poem online in MiPOesias.
November 2010 (poem & audio)

"Sin subtítulos" August 2010
poems online in Encuentro al Sur.

"polvorín en mayo"
poem in where the wind turns: The Red Moon Anthology. 2009;
online and in print in Modern Haiku. Issue 40.2. Summer 2009
(chosen favorite haiku Winter-Spring 2009);
in Modern Haiku. Issue 40.1. Winter-Spring 2009

"Idealism '08" and "In Search of Oceans"
poem online in Kweli Journal. Fall/Winter 2009

"Your Back"
poem online in The Acentos Review.
​September 2008

"More the Dancing," "Poe Park," and "Aquí"
poem in Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art
Issue 4. 2008

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