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April 13, 2026An outstanding anthology of Latin American queer poets. I loved almost each and every one and I made little notes to return to them. Subjects such as eroticism, colonialism, familial relationships, becoming, identity, love, and others, are all contained in this beautiful bilingual book. It simply is one of those collections that I find a hard time picking favorites from (another one like this for me was Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color). Still I want to note down some names/poems to come back to later:
Washington Atencio - for the beauty of “Terrarium” (We drank the light with open jaws / we named the sky and the water, / we wanted to sprout.)
Paula Galindez - “A vine climbs” for its eroticism.
Silvina Giganti - “She said that love I had” for how it handles parental tension and love.
Pablo Romero - “Enunciation displacement” for its play on grammar/gender and identity.
Gabriela Contreras - “We are the barricade” for its rebellious force “we need to set fire / for all the times / that burning was denied to us.”
Pablo Jofre - for the imagery in “Essence” (“in the midst of so many streets, so many bad dreams, so much twisted melancholy”).
Ronald Campos Lopez - “Looking after your nakedness” for how it uses visual poetry, symbolism and obsession.
David Ulloa - for how grim and daring “Gay poetry” is.
Ju Puello - for the ode that is “I Afro-Love Myself”
Victoria Vaccaro Garcia - for the sparkling mythicism of the ode to trans women that is “Destruction of sublime bodies”.
V Andino Diaz - for how it asks the city what it can do for “Female poets in love” (poetas enamoradas)
Ingrid Bringas- for the superb eroticism of “Other geographies” (“I loved a woman in another tongue”)
Cesar Canedo - for the gut-punching vulnerability of “When I fancy a man at first sight”
Daniel Nizcub - for the deep truthfulness and self-acceptance in this poem that almost made me tear up, “To her (Who is also me)”, a portrait of trans identity.
Edu Barreto - “Maintenance and repair” for the juxtaposition of desire, the mundane and brokenness in the self.
Myr Olivares - "Cleanse" for its finding of words to become beyond the binary.
Ivix Pereira - “Untitled” for its imagery of closeness and queerness in love (“When I was a girl my Barbies made love like in the films.”)
I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT
ps. apologies for missing the proper accents in the names, I wrote hastily
Washington Atencio - for the beauty of “Terrarium” (We drank the light with open jaws / we named the sky and the water, / we wanted to sprout.)
Paula Galindez - “A vine climbs” for its eroticism.
Silvina Giganti - “She said that love I had” for how it handles parental tension and love.
Pablo Romero - “Enunciation displacement” for its play on grammar/gender and identity.
Gabriela Contreras - “We are the barricade” for its rebellious force “we need to set fire / for all the times / that burning was denied to us.”
Pablo Jofre - for the imagery in “Essence” (“in the midst of so many streets, so many bad dreams, so much twisted melancholy”).
Ronald Campos Lopez - “Looking after your nakedness” for how it uses visual poetry, symbolism and obsession.
David Ulloa - for how grim and daring “Gay poetry” is.
Ju Puello - for the ode that is “I Afro-Love Myself”
Victoria Vaccaro Garcia - for the sparkling mythicism of the ode to trans women that is “Destruction of sublime bodies”.
V Andino Diaz - for how it asks the city what it can do for “Female poets in love” (poetas enamoradas)
Ingrid Bringas- for the superb eroticism of “Other geographies” (“I loved a woman in another tongue”)
Cesar Canedo - for the gut-punching vulnerability of “When I fancy a man at first sight”
Daniel Nizcub - for the deep truthfulness and self-acceptance in this poem that almost made me tear up, “To her (Who is also me)”, a portrait of trans identity.
Edu Barreto - “Maintenance and repair” for the juxtaposition of desire, the mundane and brokenness in the self.
Myr Olivares - "Cleanse" for its finding of words to become beyond the binary.
Ivix Pereira - “Untitled” for its imagery of closeness and queerness in love (“When I was a girl my Barbies made love like in the films.”)
I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT
ps. apologies for missing the proper accents in the names, I wrote hastily
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