Many of the contributors to this series are donating broadsides to folks who give to local bail funds and mutual aid/support services such as ARC Bail Fund, National Lawyers Guild, Mariposas Sin Fronteras, and others, to support arrested protestors, Black and Brown communities, and migrant/refugees in LGBTQ communities. Select broadsides from this series are available to support organizations working to end systemic racism in this country and to support demonstrators in need. Please contact Moving Parts Press if you are interested in contributing.
LATINX / CHICANX / POETX is a series of broadsides by contemporary queer+ Latinx/Chicanx poets co-edited by Felicia Rice with poets, Angel Dominguez and Hannah Kezema.
The broadside series is an addition to Moving Parts Press’s Chicanx/Latinx Series of artist books. It is also an outgrowth of the Latinx Poetix Symposium which Angel produced in 2018. Most importantly, it is the ultimate collaboration between poets, editors, and artists of the LGBTQIA+ community, their activist allies, and radical contemporary thinkers.
Angel and Hannah have been longtime collaborators, first as founders of the performance art collective, DREAM TIGERS, and as editors of the Bombay Gin literary journal of Naropa University, where they met during graduate school. When Felicia, Angel, and Hannah met in 2015, it quickly became clear that a cross-pollination would occur.
Each broadside is produced in an edition of 60 copies, of which half are placed directly into the hands of the poet. The remaining 30 copies of each broadside are available from Moving Parts Press at frice@movingpartspress.com. Unfortunately, the Moving Parts Press copies of first five broadsides in the series were destroyed by fire in August 2020 (more on the fire here).
HOPE BEYOND THE SHAPE OF A CENTURY
Angel Dominguez
Angel Dominguez is a Latinx poet and performance artist of Yucatec Mayan descent; the author of Desgraciado (Econo Textual Objects, 2017), and Black Lavender Milk (Timeless Infinite Light, 2015). His work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review, Brooklyn Magazine, FENCE, NY Tyrant, Queen Mobs Teahouse, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @dandelionglitch or irl the redwoods, or ocean.
LA INDEPENDENCIA (de puerto rico)
Raquel Salas Rivera
Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. In 2017, he coedited a series of bilingual broadsides of contemporary Puerto Rican poets, which were later collected in the Puerto Rico en mi corazón anthology (Anomalous Press, 2019). In 2018, he was named the fourth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. He is the recipient of many honors in the form of awards, grants, fellowships, and residencies. He is the author of seven chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. He is currently working on creating a digital archive of Puerto Rican poetry. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and lives, writes, and teaches in Puerto Rico.
1ST GENERATION DECOLONIZED BILINGUISTA
Josiah Luis Alderete
Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho Spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He first performed his poetry in San Francisco’s Mission District at the infamous Cafe Babar and was one of the founding members of San Francisco’s outspoken word troupe, The Molotov Mouths. He is also a radio insurgente whose stories have appeared on KALW’s “Crosscurrents” and whose show, “The Spanglish Power Hour,” aired on KPFA. He curates and hosts a monthly Latinx reading series at Nomadic Press in Oakland. Josiah Luis Alderete’s first book of poems, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos, is forthcoming from Black Freighter Press.
NUNCA MUERO
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is a birthworker, caregiver, artist, writer, and food and reproductive justice activist. Born to a single Nicaraguan mother, they grew up in Chibugna and Hahamonga, among the river, medicinal plants, coyotes, freeways, wildfires, quinceñeras, earthquakes, riots, backstrap looms, toyon trees, and oranges. They are the author of The Easy Body (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2017), a book-length poem that grew out of their research on reproductive labor in Central American revolutionary movements, their own matrilineal history, and their experiences navigating reproductive healthcare in the United States as a queer person of color. Tatiana lives in Yelamu territory, ten blocks away from where their mother entered this realm.
QUEER PALOMA FAMILIES
Farid Matuk
A queer writer of mixed Syrian and Peruvian heritage, Farid Matuk has lived in the U.S. since the age of six as an undocumented person, a “legal” resident, and a naturalized citizen. He is the author of The Real Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2018), This Is a Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta Press, 2013). His work has been anthologized frequently, and his poems and translations from Spanish, along with his essays and interviews, appear regularly. Matuk serves as poetry editor at FENCE and on the editorial board for the book series, Research in Creative Writing at Bloomsbury. Redolent, with visual artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, is forthcoming from Singing Saw Press.
Method of Loci
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a gay, Latino poet and writer living in Chicago. He is the author of three books of poetry, including most recently Losing Miami (The Accomplices, 2019) which was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. His fourth poetry book, Madness, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. He is also the co-editor of a book of selected sketches by the artist Gustavo Ojeda, out from Soberscove Press in 2020.
San Francisco
Vickie Vértiz
Vickie Vértiz is a writer and educator from Bell Gardens, CA. Her writing can be found in the New York Times magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her book Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut won the 2018 PEN America literary prize in poetry. A graduate of Williams College, the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of California Riverside, she teaches in the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara.
Party Politics
Kyle Carrero Lopez
Kyle Carrero Lopez is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest. His poems are published or forthcoming in The Nation, POETRY, Guernica, The Atlantic, Jewish Currents, and elsewhere, with highlights in episodes of The Slowdown and Poetry Unbound. Kyle is an alum of the Cave Canem community workshops and a 2022 Tin House Scholar. He holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU, where he was a Goldwater Fellow. Born to Cuban parents in northern New Jersey, he now lives in Brooklyn.
Apology for the Camellias I Could Not Write About
Sara Borjas
Sara Borjas is a queer, Chicanx poet and the author of Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press, 2019), winner of a 2020 American Book Award. The recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, CantoMundo, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation, Borjas lives on Ohlone territory in Oakland but stays rooted in Fresno, California, territory of the Yokut peoples.
From the CHICANX/LATINX SERIES Artists’ Books
This series explores the intersection of cultures, disciplines, and book structures. These works of contemporary Chicanx/Latinx artists and writers in translation are issued in both limited and trade editions. Each book is the result of a close collaboration between writer, artist and the book artist, Felicia Rice.