Latinx and Latine Poetry
Librarians at The Seattle Public Library selected this list of poetry by Latino/Latina/Latinx poets. Annotations from Publishers Weekly unless otherwise noted. (Created March 2025)
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Good Monster
The focus of Antigua's most recent collection, Good Monster, "is the body, both wounded and whole, and the experiences that have led the speaker to see herself as a monster." (Poetry Foundation)
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Yaguareté White
Diego Báez’s debut collection, Yaguareté White, explores the sense of alienation that accompanies those who hold multiple, sometimes contesting identities. (Poetry Foundation)
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Consider the Rooster
The innovative and ecologically minded third collection from Bendorf finds solace in the connections between the human and nonhuman world, centering and celebrating transformation.
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Homeland of My Body
Cuban American poet Richard Blanco. . . writes in search of home, of roots, of belonging, moving beyond the physical geography of place--the Miami of his childhood, Calle Ocho, Little Havana--to a poetics that locates identity in the materiality of the body. (Library Journal)
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The Murmuring Grief of the Americas
Poet Daniel Borzutzky exposes the harsh realities of current economic crises, social unrest, repressive immigration policies, and systematized bureaucracy, not just in the United States but throughout the Americas. (Poetry Foundation)
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Cipota Under the Moon
In a range of prose poems and evocative lyrics that incorporate both translated and untranslated Spanish text, Castro Luna bridges the emotional and geographical distance between a childhood in El Salvador and an adulthood in the United States. (Poetry Foundation)
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Woman Without Shame
The introspective latest from Cisneros sweeps through her life with blunt observations and heartfelt prayers.
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Golden Ax
Golden Ax, a debut collection of poems by Rio Cortez, confronts social and racial injustice by following the poet’s complex family map through the United States. (Poetry Foundation)
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Back to the Woods
Cruz’s latest (after Hotel Oblivion) examines the human inclination for self-destruction.
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To the Boy Who Was Night
This dazzling collection features selections from Gonzalez’s poetry over the past quarter century alongside new work that expands on his themes of sex and masculinity, death and the afterlife, and the experiences of migrants.
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