Seattle Picks: Latino/a/x Poetry
Librarians at The Seattle Public Library selected this list of poetry by Latino/Latina/Latinx poets. Annotations from Publishers Weekly unless otherwise noted. (Created March 2025)
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Hispanic Sonnets
In this collection, Salinas explores both himself—a Hispanic man, a Texas poet, a Roman Catholic, a wordsmith—and society. (Kirkus Reviews)
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In Inheritance of Drowning
Smith Silva navigates the treacherous waters of displacement and survival in the wake of natural disaster in this luminous and innovative debut.
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Tripas
With Tripas, Som turns his attention to histories, plural: toxic dumping in Phoenix, Arizona; a father’s “nine-year fight with cancer”; a Chicana grandmother’s work inspecting circuits for the earliest Motorola cellphones. (Poetry Foundation)
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Diaries of A Terrorist
Alongside its uncompromising portrait of injustice, Diaries of a Terrorist also offers audacious glimmers of hope. (Poetry Foundation)
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Hivestruck
Capturing the zeitgeist, award-winning Puerto Rican poet Toro uses appropriately vivid, edgy writing to consider how technology has impacted people both individually and collectively. (Library Journal)
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