These two poems may sound familiar at first but they may surprise you in what they are actually about. These are for the days when you’re missing home.
Batteries Not Included // To Those Who Can’t Go Home for Christmas
On the Other Side of Everything: The Girls Write Now 2023 Anthology
Static
This is a zuihitsu that reflects how overwhelming life is and uses the different meanings of the word “static.”
Unspoken Things
“Unspoken Things” is about being in a gray area with someone and not knowing where you stand with them.
“Did you hear her Spanish?”
A short story about my relationship with language and Puerto Rican identity.
Una breve historia sobre mi relación con el lenguaje y mi identidad Puertorriqueña. Izabell estaba muy emocionada de tener la oportunidad de trabajar con Fellow de Girls Write Now, Sally Familia, en la traducción de su historia del Inglés al Español.
getting older
Maybe our photos will fill the gaps my memory won’t.
The Road Trip
One trip that tests their relationship, will Connie and Alex survive?
How to Cut Your Hair
How to Cut Your Hair is an emotional exploration into the trauma caused by the fraught relationship between Blackness and femininity that follows Black women in every aspect of their lives.
Check
This poem is about my complicated, love-hate relationship with worry.
to my past and present
To myself, who could never find the words about me.
To my dad, who made me doubt myself; thank you for trying.
The Postcard Monologues
A small story of a girl’s romantic encounters, mannerisms, and meetings told through her own POV and the perspective of a postcard she keeps in her room.
Love’s Sacrifice
Most people know their boundaries when it comes to love. I’m still trying to figure out mine.
Nostalgic Smells
My grandmother was diagnosed with dementia in 2020, I remember her through memories we shared years ago, and I wrote about these memories, by continuing to remember her as she would want me to.
Mom Pants
I have always been perceived to be younger than I actually was; at first, I was not too fond of it, but it eventually grew on me.
How Feminist Art Was Invented
This poem is inspired largely by Artemisia Gentileschi’s art, life, and my own experiences.
Thanksgiving
How does holiday tradition shape shift with tragedy?