THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes;  to hear it is to see it with our ears.  –poet Octavio Paz The Latina Book Club is highlighting five wonderful books of poetry this week. We’ve been reading a lot of poetry lately. No reason.   We enjoy it and find that it speaks to the soul.   Poetry makes us cry, laugh, moan, roar.   Poetry is not dead.   It lives within the words we read, the music we hear, and the world we see around us.   Let us know the Latinx poets you enjoy.   HERMOSA   By Yesika Salgado   Not A Cult      A journey of firsts, of mistakes, of celebrations, of the love, the crush, the disaster, the rebuilding, and the never-ending cycle of growth. BE RECORDER: POEMS By Carmen Gimènez Smith Graywolf Press   A dream of rebellion―against compromise, against inertia, against self-delusion, and against the ways the media dream up our co...

Haymarket Books The mezcla, or the remezcla, is where we are going to find our strength, our vision, our power, and it’s in these pages where you’ll find the blueprint, which is simultaneously frightening, magical, and real. Welcome to this somos mas moment.    –Willie Perdomo LatiNEXT The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4 Edited by  Felicia Rose Chavez Josè Olivarez Willie Perdomo LatiNEXT celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. A BreakBeat Poets anthology that opposes silence and re-mixes the soundtrack of the Latinx diaspora across diverse poetic traditions. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, the book honors what was, what is, and what’s next. The LatiNEXT anthology is broken up into sections of the Mexican loteria – La Muerte, El Bandolon, El Mundo, La Bandera, and La Sirena. Each section ...