Read Now! The Second Issue of ‘Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color’
Author: Christopher Soto
September 9, 2015
Welcome to Nepantla Issue #2
Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (launched annually with the Lambda Literary) aims to preserve diversity within the queer poetry community. Our inaugural issue reached thousands of readers and this year, in preparing for Issue Two, we have experienced even more growth than anticipated. We added Regional Representatives and Outreach Representatives to our team and (in turn) we received more than three times the amount of submissions as last year. This just reminds us of the need for our journal, the need to celebrate all of the talented QPOC poets out there!
Nepantla Issue #2 features twenty-three poets of various aesthetics, experiences, and relationships to poetry. This issue also features two interviews with QPOC poets and activists which we admire. As an editor, I am proud of our journal’s growth, inventiveness, accountability, and willingness to take risks. When we take risks, we have the opportunity to fail, to learn, to become even stronger. Nepantla Issue #2 is the byproduct of collective resilience, learned knowledge, and adaptation. Hope you enjoy the read!
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Natalie Martínez | EKPHRASTIC REMAINS & ENUMERATIONS |
Julian Talamantez Brolaski | in the cut |
Ife-Chudeni Oputa | Lessons on the Body: How Not to Itch |
Luis Lopez-Maldonado | TRANSvisible |
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza | I Dream of Horses Eating Cops |
Jess X. Chen | Last Words of the Honey Bees |
Fatimah Asghar | Orphan |
Vanessa Borjon | Michoacan |
Hieu Minh Nguyen | Again, What Do I Know About Desire? |
Shane Allison | BUSCH GARDENS PHOTO |
Franny Choi | Thirst |
Nahshon Cook | Imagine |
Aziza Barnes | The Clouds Can’t Hold Shit |
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo | Drown |
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram | If in its advance the plague begins to fiercen |
Joshua Aiken | See Blk Boy Run |
Francisco Aragón | Unknown Distances |
Vickie Vertiz | Agua en Gotas |
andriniki mattis | how to live btwn the lines |
Samiya Bashir | Ha ha ha niggers are the worst |
L.G. Parker | I Didn’t Want To Be Good |
Nicole Mitchell | Birthday Girl |
Aurel Haize Odogbo | BIRTH-MONGER |
In conversation: Alok Vaid-Menon & Cece McDonald
In conversation: Carl Phillips & Rickey Laurentiis
To download an epub file of the Nepantla Journal click here.