Nepantla

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A landmark anthology that gathers the voices of queer poets of color across U.S. history, this collection traces how desire, identity, and survival have shaped American poetry from the ground up. Spanning generations and styles, it brings together literary legends and contemporary innovators to illuminate the many ways QPOC writers move between worlds—speaking in lyric, protest, intimacy, and experiment. At its heart, the book celebrates diversity within queer poetic expression while preserving a living record of community, memory, and cultural inheritance. With Christopher Soto’s curatorial vision and the anthology’s roots in the Nepantla journal, readers are invited into a vibrant, expansive landscape where language becomes both refuge and revolution.

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