The poems in Pablo Miguel Martínez's debut collection are rooted deep in the "caliche-veined eternity" of South Texas. Plainspoken and often stark, they are the poet's meditation on the ceaseless cycles of loss and love-and work and hope-that lead inevitably to "a place of unsorrowed serenity."

Brazos, Carry Me

Literature & Fiction

Martinez, Pablo Miguel

Poetry

Korima Press

Jotos del Barrio is a literary work presented as a collection of poems, monologues, and vignettes that takes the audience into the lives of young Latino, Chicano, Tejano, Mexicano, and Mexican-American gay men as they discover the joys and trials of their multiple identities. In each piece, characters search for voice, a sense of place, and respect as they are confronted by racism, homophobia and other complexities of twenty-first century living. Jotos del Barrio seeks to empower, educate, and create dialogue.

Jotos del Barrio

Arts & Photography

Alonzo, Jesús

Performing Arts

The poetry and prose in the collection explore the deep love instilled in a people for themselves and their homeland even as they battle loss in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Salvation on Mission Street

Arellano, Cathy

The voices in Empanada’s kitchen will definitely not be shy! Each probadita is told from the bustling space of the kitchen and heavily spiced with hurt and yearning, lust, desire, passion and bliss. Each bite of Empanada will take you on a journey through the heart of Paloma, a young lesbiana learning to maneuver her loving heart through a culture of judgment. This collection of vignettes is divided into three macroscopic sections: Food, Religion and Sex where personal, cultural and gender identity are in constant flux, but finally birth a new geographic space in Latina, Chicana, Mexican and Lesbian literature and lesbianidad.

Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas

Flores, Anel I.

Conceived and developed by Adelina Anthony, Dino Foxx, and Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, Tragic Bitches documents the process and poetry of three queer Xicana and Xicano artists seeking to revel and heal in the darkest and most vulnerable spaces of love, desire, and loss. These poets speak to joy and angst understanding that love, sex, and loss are braided continuums. Here, tragedy is not ignored—it is recognized, claimed, learned and healed from.

Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Xicana & Xicano Performance Poetry

Anthony, Adelina

Foxx, Dino

Herrera y Lozano, Lorenzo

Dino Foxx’s debut collection, When the Glitter Fades, is a love letter to lovers, to familia, to San Antonio. A mélange of experiences and polaroid shots of moments all too familiar to those who walk this queer path in search of desire, recuerdos, community, familia, and fideo homelands. Open this book and get lost –or find yourself– in the celebrations and mournings of a queer Xicano poet, teatrista, fire-eater.

When the Glitter Fades

These poems come from the steam of tortillas on the comal, from the banks of arroyos, from the sweat simmering from the skin. These are not healing songs, these are not prayers, these are photos kept hidden, wrapped in musty paños, stuffed to the back of the drawer, some musty box, some vato’s back pocket. These poems are of stink, of blood, of moon, of llanos and back roads; they give way to shivering.

Ditch Water

Delgado, Joseph

Las Hociconas is an original X-X-Xicana Comedic Triptych where, in signature style, Adelina blends stand-up comedy, monologue, zany characterizations, and sprinklings of performance art moments in three distinct solo comedies. In these intensely bold, highly theatrical, and hilarious Spanglish shows, our performer intertwines Xicanismo, the queer, the feminist and everything else that matters for those of us working toward progressive politics and practices. Each solo script is a full-length comedy that stands on its own. Conceived to be in conversation with each other, all three comedies are presented together in this book; delivering non-stop critical comedia.

Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains

Adelina Anthony

A decade after his debut title, Santo de la Pata Alzada: Poems from the Queer/Xicano/Positive Pen, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano returns with a collection of poems exploring queer Xicano desires, literal and mythical homeland(s), and brown bodies in perpetual displacement. Sitting at the intersections of reminisced childhood pop culture, defiantly claimed Mexicanidad, and coquettishly amorphous Xicanidad, Amorcito Maricón basks in the inherent politic, inevitable heartbreak, and inescapable draw of brown on brown desire. Un libro para maricones and those who love us.

Amorcito Maricon

The Beast of Times is a queer political allegory that explores the contradictions and pains of coming to political consciousness in a world where environmental and ethnic diversity are fast diminishing. The play, in which radicalized animals put humans on trial, follows the story of two protagonists—a dog and a cat—at odds with each other. One is impassioned about her politicization and joining “the movement,” and the other is satisfied with her “creature comforts.” Beast uses pointed humor and stark drama to expose the human love of greed and greed for love, in addition to the devastating effects of environmental degradation on the planet’s non-human inhabitants.

The Beast of Times

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