Streaming Service: The Series Finale

by Sofía Aguilar

STREAMING SERVICE: the series finale is the third and final installment of Sofía Aguilar’s STREAMING SERVICE trilogy. Four years after the publication of season two, Aguilar returns to the golden shovel poetry form with new urgency and fire, plucking lines of dialogue from TV shows old, contemporary, and brand-new (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The White Lotus, St. Denis Medical) to explore her meditations on home, family, myth-making, truth-telling, grief, mental illness, and our relationship to land and body.

With each new poem, she bends and twists the golden shovel into a shape of her own making, turning constraints into new freedoms. Featuring collaboratively-written golden shovels (“crossover episodes”), golden shovels inspired by song lyrics (“season soundtrack”), and poems using dialogue exclusively from other series finales (“the end”), she says good-bye to a form that has transformed her work for the better and finishes out the series on a striking note that lasts long after the last page—all while knowing that good things never truly come to a close.

107 pages, Paperback

Published March 24, 2026

About the author

Sofía Aguilar is a Chicana writer, editor, and library professional based on the traditional homelands of the Tongva and Chumash peoples, now known as Los Angeles, California. Her work has appeared in the L.A. Times, Refinery29 Somos, and New Orleans Review, among other publications. She is the author of zine and chapbook publications including STREAMING SERVICE: golden shovels made for tv (2021) and STREAMING SERVICE: season two (2022), both self-published; LOS ANGELES: the zine, co-edited with poet Paula Macena; and amor., published by Bottlecap Press in March 2025. Her debut children’s picture book Queer Latine Heroes: 25 Changemakers from Latin America and the U.S. from History and Today is forthcoming from Jessica Kingsley Publishers in September 2025.