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Celebrate intersectional identities with these titles that include poetry by Afro-Latinx/Caribbean and Mixed writers!

Pima County Public Library

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  • From Bibliocommons: "Amy M. Alvarez explores the cultural, spiritual, and place-based experiences of Afro-Caribbean and African American diasporic peoples in this haunting and emotionally charged collection of poems that meditates on the…
    BookLexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2024] — 811.6 AL863m 2024
  • From Bibliocommons: "An imaginative, blistering, beautifully written poetry collection about identity and history on the island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti to celebrate and center the Black Diasporic experience"--
    Book[New York] : Tiny Reparations Books, [2023] — 811.6 M36p 2023
  • "In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpre-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that…
    BookNew York : Quill Tree Books, [2022] — 811.6 Ac37i 2022 TEEN
  • "We Are Owed. is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces. Through poems about the author's childhood in Texas and a trip to Mexico as an adult, Brown interrogates…
    Book[Cleveland, Ohio] : GRVLND, [2021] — 811.6 B8122w 2021
  • Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet. From Bibliocommons: "Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Diannely Antigua's debut collection, UGLY MUSIC, is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream,…
    BookPortland, OR : Yesyes Books, [2019] — 811.6 An875u 2019
  • From AfricanAmericanPoetry.Org: "Born in New York City to parents of Cuban and Jamaican descent and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, Aja Monet Bacquie began writing poems when she was eight or nine years old. "
    BookChicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2017. — 811.6 M7461m 2017
  • Jasminne Méndez has identified as Afro-Latina on social media. From Bibliocommons: "For Jasminne Méndez, pericardial effusion and pericarditis are not just an abnormal accumulation of fluid and increased inflammation around the heart.…
    eBookArte Público Press, 2018
  • Willie Perdomo posted on Instagram about being "a Puerto Rican writer, an Afro-Boricua poet."
    eBookHaymarket Books, 2021
  • From Bibliocommons: "Based on a viral poem by Blaxican poet and activist Leslé Honoré, and illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Cozbi A. Cabrera, this moving journey through the past, present, and future of brown and Black girls is a…
    Downloadable AudiobookHachette Audio, 2024
  • Man-making Words

    Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén

    Guillén, Nicolás, 1902-1989
    Nicolás Guillén was an Afro-Cuban poet.
    BookAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2003] — 861.62 G9458p 2003 Espanol
  • Latino Poetry

    the Library of America Anthology

    This book includes poems by Afro-Latinx poets, including but not limited to Yesenia Montilla, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Jasminne Mendez, and Raina J. León.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2024] — 811.60808 L3499 2024 Bilingual
  • This anthology includes poetry by Julia de Burgos, an Afro-Puerto Rican poet.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2011. — 861.60809 F949 2011 Multilingual