Nepantla: An Anthology For Queer Poets of Color ed. by Christopher Soto

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Nepantla: An Anthology For Queer Poets of Color ed. by Christopher SotoIn 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the experiences of QPOC in the United States. Now, Nepantla will appear for the first time in print as a survey of poetry by queer poets of color throughout U. S. history, including literary legends such as

I can say this / in seven dialects

in her introduction to Jericho Brown’s “Dark” (featured in theNew York Times Magazine in January 2019)

"Xu's lyricism and near-painterly control of the line are breathtaking

Terrance Hayes

National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead and American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

In part taking its cue from A

and cultural criticism

this is a year in which the past—memories of family members

–Kate Asche

of radiating radical concern

bringing together the most dynamic aspects of literary and performance poetry

has contributed a new introduction