TAPFNY| Poets

Marianela Medrano -Dominican Republic-

Medrano’s work also appears in literary magazines and academic journals such as Brooklyn Review (1995), Punto 7 Review (1996) Sisters of...

Margarita Drago -Argentina-

Hubo un tiempo Hubo otoños y mañanas grises y hojas secas en el patio arremolinadas por el viento hubo un parral generoso cada...

Luis Luna -Spain-

Flame´s learning It amazes you the heat, the uncertainty of the flame, the language of the smoke. Firelight proposes you/knowledges/that...

Linda Morales Caballero -Peru-

With LAIA, she created a yearly international literary contest and Anthology, and developed literary circles and creative writing...

Lilia Gutiérrez Riveros -Colombia-

Pocket Planet I survey the lengthening of a sigh And feel that we’re entitled To a world without garbage Smokeless and deprived of...

Lena Retamoso -Peru-

my poem is weariness weariness of being awake even in my deepest sleep of dragging the days without feeling their weight or their...

Jorge Paolantonio -Argentina-

He has published thirteen books of poems, most recently: Baus [2014] y En este duro oficio [anthology, 2015]. Paolantonio also has six...

Francisco Álvarez Koki -Spain-

Sonata to a Body Bathing in a Tub Like a vessel, the bathtub Rocked you in time, And I was your silence Across the water. Your...

Edgar Smith -Dominican Republic-

Parallelism While I write Someone agonizes Someone plants gardenias Someone unearths the bones of someone who wrote verses Someone...

Daniel Baruc -Dominican Republic-

V o z d e m a r… Voz de mar, en ti me reconozco húmedo de abismos. Salitre fue la huella en el principio y sol en las manos la...

Carlos Satizábal -Colombia-

Word Does perhaps the jaguar speaks to the lark? Does the saman tree to the murmuring stones of the river bed needs words to bury the...

Julio Marzán -Puerto Rico-

For Donald Trump Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out. –Robert Frost “Let’s raise this wall...

Juana Ramos –El Salvador–

Heredera De mi padre heredé una especie de disgusto por la vida y por los grupos de más de tres personas, la desconfianza de los días...

Denise León -Argentina-

The List What he said. What she said. What she said, his sister. What they said, those who saw them go and come. The old...

Daniel Shapiro -USA-

Summer, Guadalajara Güero danced a drunk bolero on the roof. He gave me a peso crushed smooth by a train, a green clay figurine. We...

Carolina Zamudio -Argentina-

Certainty Death cannot be lamented through swirls of certainty. It happens (almost always) in the midst of outbursts From one joy to...

Carlos Velásquez -Colombia-

Ya mis armas han caído Mi pecho sudoroso resopla La angustia del pronto deceso Has de aligerar tu carga Pues no hay bastimento Ni...

Augusta Eunice Castillo –Dominican Republic–

Macho de qué Cuándo se ahogará el furor que esperma tu alevosía encima de Ella Qué colinas libaron tus entrañas para amamantarte la...

Ana Luisa Martínez –Dominican Republic–

Garden of the Lumpen Gods 1 Between the tongue and second heaven vermin multiply and the dew perverts as it falls. Every race bows...

Alex Lima -Ecuador-

72 generations between you and I hot climate, cold climate good hair, bad hair light skin, dark skin protection from the cold ...