Poetry 2016

Rocío Uchofen -Peru-

1 Could you sit down and play the piano while I watch you and taste a Merlot of 2009? Time can drain through the tiny openings of...

Agustín Benelli -Chile-

CAÍN EN EL TEDIO DE LA TARDE I La voz en la radio y el poeta con su mapa pasajero de una nueva cartografía. Mi madre esa tarde de...

Luis E. Mendoza -Peru-

Equinox 12 hours a day, 12 hours at night. Then you invite me for a cup of tea /in the instant of the equatorial line Old cornered suns...

Arde Trinidad (Palome e Iván) -Spain/Mexico-

Paloma is a singer, translator and performer. She studied translation and interpreting in Germany. She has sung in different Chorus in...

Los Peligro – Liliana & Sergio -Spain-

Liliana Peligro (Barcelona, 1982) studied Audiovisual Communication. Currently she combines her facet as a photographer and collage...

Alena Singleton -USA-

Morning in New York Tangerine and pink tendrils Creeping, No… Pulling themselves With varied and slender outstretched fingers, ...

Fernanda Martínez Varela -Chile-

da la vuelta y mantén la distancia recuerda estornudar si la boca abre, corre al jardín trepa un árbol sientes terror atrás de las...

Roberto Carlos Garcia -USA-

I gave Emily Dickinson to you then —Agha Shahid Ali as if she were a cold or a lasting heirloom, a piece of my living soul So dangerous...

Elaine Nadal -USA-

Restos Mientras yo dormía, vi a mi abuela en una bata blanca pidiendo aire– un ángel cansado, pero con piel radiante, las arrugas...

Loren Kleinman -USA-

America, the Beautiful This is America, the dark house of fiction, the dark horse, the battle ground. This is the place where I...

Rafael Tejada –Dominican Republic–

A Eduardo Lantigua Pelegrin Ahora descifrada la ira entiendo el porqué de su presencia Sepulto sus misterios. Tu rebeldía es un grito ...

Tonia Leon -USA-

Emma’s Lament ‘Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses / yearning to be free “The New Colossus” Emma Lazurus give me your poor...

Yoseli Castillo Fuertes –Dominican Rep./USA-

Would You Marry Me? My parents married different people a few times Some were scammers, some didn’t qualify Until finally there was a...

Samantha Kostmayer Sulaiman -USA-

Alone Nighttime came to her like a tame and saffron dragon but the women in the neighborhood so she ate alone. Left Over Stolen from...

Peter V. Dugan -USA-

The Gray Pilgrim Operating on instinct rather than intellect, I pull up to the gas pump in need of coffee as much as my car needs fuel. ...

Carlos Manuel Rivera -Puerto Rico-

A Chant from Caliban to his Mother Sicorax To Brenda Flanagan, Brenda Tapia, and Nancy Fairley, really Sicoraxs on earth Let’s dance with...

Victor Alcindor -USA/Haiti-

Period 11 Observation I. eager ESL students cling to hot fliers Give a Penny for Haiti their moment to shine in a suburban high...

Mireya Perez-Bustillo -USA/Colombia-

Depth of Field It was looking at Mami’s arms- so thin now- but in their length it was almost a photograph of Maya’s arms and mine- all...

Marina Carreira -USA/Portugal-

547 Market Street The old yellow house, now coral with brown trim unrecognizable, except the onion-domed roof, careful fog surrounding...

Azahara Palomeque -Spain-

The Wound the exile refuses to sit on the sidelines nursing a wound, there are things to be learned Edward Said In English, a wound is...