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New poetry chapbook! American Campesino (15 poems for a pandemic)
Just published by Editorial Xingao! American Campesino 15 poems for a pandemic | 15 poemas para una pandemia Poems by Rubén Rangel Cover art, “La huelguista,” by Pedro Rodríguez (Saddle-stapled chapbook: 28 pages; August 2022) ISBN: 978-0-9910346-0-4 EDITOR’S NOTE: Chicano poet and radical community & working class organizer, Rubén Rangel, delivers compact and crystalline poems…
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Paradise under construction | A note on “Building Socialism” RPB poetry anthology
All poets, good or bad, with or without anti-capitalist politics, weak or strong anti-racist and anti-war practices, believe in and want paradise on earth. Paradise has different names according to the language your heart speaks. Paradise is where the beloved and I pour our souls into each other. Paradise is where I harmonize with the…
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Original World
Our animalsdance with usdance to the invaders musicpara burlarse de sus notas y ritmos[to make fun of their notes and rhythms]We hear their musicand our hearts and mouths destroy their harmonieswith the windwith the waterwith the soil and her dusty laughterYou may never understandour pitcheshow we squeal the songsstrike our bones to start the fireshow…
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Don’t Forget to Remember
Chants against forgetting during the pandemic Don’t forget the farmworkersDon’t forget the day laborersDon’t forget the janitors and maintenance workersDon’t forget the undocumented and documented workers everywhere Don’t forget the truck drivers, the delivery workers, the postal service workersDon’t forget the workers in the food processing plants, the slaughterhouses, the meat packers, the poultry plant and…
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The four roots
Everywhere you goYour colorsYour bordersYour woundsYour warsYour liberationsYour ecstasies and your criesFollow you.NorthSouthEastWestNorth is always the direction of self-determination, liberation, north star, morning star, ehecatl, the direction that guides the world to the new daySouth, everyone, every human, every river, cloud, ocean, rivulets, lakes and rain comes from the south, the place where everyone was…
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Two awes
In awe of awes 1. In awe of clouds: my grandfather taught that clouds are the most powerful force on earth, the largest organism in the world, carrying oceans, rivers, lakes, rivulets. rains, snows, hailstorms, thunder, lightning and hurricanes in her body with the same ease. 2. In awe of hummingbirds: they are black in…
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A net of creation stories
Dust, mud, clouds, rainforests, volcanoes: each one is a relationship to my elders and the battle for life of my ancestors, willing to be present and leaving us to our own sun. The belly-button of the moon: Waves over oceans and lakes, wind rattling trees, lifting wings: lunar serpents gliding across all our bodies, the…
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The longest moment
I give my self permission to be.I have nothing better to do than to be my self.My body is cartography of the longest walkhills, rivers, mountains, canyons, plains, caverns, cisterns, aquifers a constellation-filled net for lungs and a volcano for a heartMy feet are calloused by the moon’s sandpaper lightMy hands are instruments of god’s…
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Original World
OUR ANIMALSdance with usdance to the invaders musicpara burlarse de sus notas y ritmos[to make fun of their notes and rhythms]We hear their musicand our hearts and mouths destroy their harmonieswith the windwith the waterwith the soil and her dusty laughterYou may never understandour pitcheshow we squeal the songsstrike our bones to start the fireshow…
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Ransom Notes | Day 1 April Poetry Month Chapbook
Identity Who among us is a beastthat never dies?Who among us is a loverthat never cries?Who among us is a dreamerthat always lies?I am your woundI am your eyesI am your bed (I am your shadowthat runs acrossthe groundand no obstacle, no rockno chasm, no mountainscan keep me from being at your feet) {1 April…
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