Pulse

Pulse: One Year Later. “ Because this is an AR15,” by Sean Manzano

Pulse: One Year Later. “Requiem for Orlando,” by Lauren Espinoza

Pulse: One Year Later. “What Pastry Would I Be,” by Antonio Lopez

Líneas hacia un texto de Alejandro Barrios Martínez, 21

por Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

Queer Latinx Spaces

by Samantha Martinez

Me in the middle. In the middle of everyone who is not me. 
Me in front of a squiggle mirror, catch my reflection.
There I stand, brown, Puerto Rican…
queerness
Has no defined reflection.
There is no state sanctioned visual markers for queerness
Sometimes my…

June

by Jessica Vega Gonzalez

June

June 13th, 33 years ago
She gave up her life to fight
 against poverty, injustice, oppression.
I don’t know if she knew the cost
 nor the kind of ripples it would
 make.
June 3rd, 10 days ago
I stand up against it too,
in a sleeveless…

SO THIS TRANSLATOR JUST MADE UP HIS MIND

by Marco Antonio Huerta

I decided that from this day on
I will only translate poetry
Written by queer poets of color
Exclusively
No exceptions made

Cusp

by Wendy C. Ortiz

Y̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶I̶ ̶a̶w̶o̶k̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶c̶o̶o̶n̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶l̶o̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶m̶y̶…

3 Poems for Orlando

IT MUST HAVE A DANCE GROOVE THAT RUNS ALL THE WAY THROUGH

by Joe Gutierrez

IT MUST NOT BE LONGER THAN 3:30
IT HAS TO BE SERVED ON A BED OF JASMINE RICE
TWO SOURCES OF HEAT MUST COME TOGETHER
YOU MAY CALL IT BLUE JUSTICE
IT MUST BE…