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lunchboxpoems · 1 year
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YESIKA SALGADO
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litbowl · 7 months
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From Yesika Salgado's book, Corazón. Get your copy here. (Not a Cult, 2018).
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harmlesscigarette · 2 months
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"How My First Tongue Keeps You," Yesika Salgado
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Corazón
By Yesika Salgado.
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felinemotif · 3 months
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🐈‍⬛ | 2024 reading list
eileen by ottessa moshfegh | in the miso soup by ryu murakami | slow days, fast company by eve babitz | ✰✰✰ the memory police by yoko ogawa | sharks in the rivers by ada límon | sister of mine by laurie petrou | y/n by esther yi | my body by emily ratajkowski | ✰✰✰✰ tennis lessons by susannah dickey | goddess of filth by v castro | ✰✰✰✰
lolita by vladimir nabokov | being lolita by alisson wood | no ballet shoes in syria by catherine bruton | an education in malice by s.t. gibson | a long time dead by samara breger | the hacienda by isabel cañas | the mermaid from jeju by sumi hahn | the lover by silvia moreno-garcia | ✰✰✰✰ água viva by clarice lispector | penance by eliza clark | monstrilio by gerardo sámano córdova | the last tale of the flower bride by roshani chokshi | corazón by yesika salgado | valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann | my body keeps your secrets by lucia osborne-crowley | the torn skirt by rebecca godfrey | a girl is a half-formed thing by eimear mcbride | madonna in a fur coat by sabahattin ali | sugar, baby by celine saintclare | cross roads by laurel hightower | dear laura by gemma amor | they drown our daughters by katrina monroe | the pure moon reflected on the water by zen cho | rest and be thankful by emma glass | the keeper of the night by kylie lee baker | the empress of time by kylie lee baker | notes from the underground by dostoevsky | white nights by dostoevsky | rouge by mona awad | big bad by chandler baker |
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By Yesika Salgado
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kaydna · 4 months
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How else to enjoy a Sunday afternoon?
If you could be mine - Sara Farizan
The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur
Hermosa - Yesika Salgado
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dreaming-for-an-escape · 11 months
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I was tagged by @ruby-dragon
Get to know the writer.
Pen name(s): Winchestergirl123, dreaming-for-an-escape
Age: 26 (soon to be 27)
College/university degree(s):  B.A. in Anthropology 
Favorite book growing up: Goosebumps, Geronimo Stilton, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
First “grown-up” book you remember reading: I honestly can’t remember. It was probably one of Stephen King’s novels though. 
Favorite novel(s): Frankenstein, Joyland, Carrie, Coraline, Sharp Objects.
Favorite published writer(s): Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, Mary Shelley, Silvia Moreno-Garcia 
Favorite book(s) of poetry: I’ve recently read Corazon by Yesika Salgado.
Favorite "children's book"(s): A Bad Case of Stripes 
Favorite movie/show adaptation(s): For movies the Scream series, Tremors, IT, the Sam Raimi Spider-Man series, Marvel movies in general, The Lost Boys, and etc. For TV shows, HotD, GoT, Killing Eve, Yellowjackets, Sharp Objects, The Last of Us, Euphoria, American Horror Story, etc. 
What do you listen to when you write?: I either have my TV on in the background or I am listening to my playlist. Lately it’s been the Yellowjackets soundtrack I’ve been listening to when writing. Or I have Shameless playing. 
What do you drink when you write?: It depends. Sometimes it’s water, soda, tea. It’s coffee only on the weekends. 
Your favorite piece that you've ever written:
Dark Paradise. An AU for my main HotD story My Heart, My Body, My Soul.
Favorite fanfiction you've read recently: 
The Taste of Bitter Steel by BeyondTheHorizonIsHope
tagging: @wolfanddragon98 @the-witching-ash @unordinary-simp @cdragons  @bluebell-winter @idonotknowenglish
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cosmosofthoughts · 2 years
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the poetry that consumes my being
Below you’ll find some of the poems I keep coming back to. I don’t know why but something irrevocable draws me to the words, and I fear I may never escape their sound. Not complaining about that though. 
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying by Noor Hindi
Poem XX by Pablo Neruda
The Lovers by Timothy Liu
A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg
From the House of Yemanjá by Audre Lorde
Margarita by Rubén Darío
Overnight by Yesika Salgado
Bedtime Story for the Bruised-Hearted by Donika Kelly
The Lovers by Victoria Chang
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smokefalls · 2 years
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Do you have any recommendations for approachable poetry collections to read? I want to read some poetry but I feel like most of them will be too hard for me to understand :(
Hi Anon,
I want to acknowledge that poetry is hard. Understanding poetry isn't something that comes naturally and requires a lot of exposure. And even after reading dozens of different collections, poetry will still be hard. (That's certainly the case for me.) I guess the point I want to make is you don't have to understand everything. Take your time with a collection, sit with the poems that stand out to you (and that can be for any reason), and don't hesitate to go back and read again.
As for approachable collections, I think this is a bit subjective, only because our lived experiences greatly inform how we interpret things. What I found approachable may not be the case for another person, and vice versa. That being said and in my opinion, I think the following are good starting points:
Crush by Richard Siken. I think the themes presented are pretty approachable. They're incredibly lyrical as well and play a little more with form.
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay. The poems seem simplistic, but the lighthearted, emotional impact Gay wants to make is apparent.
Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes. Uplifting Filipino American women's voices in particular, her style and themes are incredibly approachable.
Corazón by Yesika Salgado. This one also has approachable concepts without leaning much into the abstract. (I haven't read Salgado's other poems, but I wouldn't be surprised if those have a similar vibe.)
Earth Keeper by N. Scott Momaday. I actually recommend listening to the audiobook to really get the feel for the importance of oral traditions in Indigenous cultures.
Felicity by Mary Oliver. I want to say Oliver's poems in general are approachable, not having many frills but still full of lyricism.
The Carrying by Ada Limón. I also think Limón's poems are rather approachable and straightforward. Sometimes abstract, but not to the point that it would frustrate.
Naomi Shihab Nye has written many collections and I find that her poems are graspable when it comes to their forms and themes.
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker. Parker's poems in general are full of life and especially approachable if you're familiar with US pop culture.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil's poems are delightful with relatively easy-to-understand themes and beautiful imagery.
I'm likely forgetting a bunch more, but I think ten is a good number?
I hope this helps a little, but again, don't stress out about trying to understand everything. Enjoy the poems that stand out to you and take some time to play with the words on the page like the poet.
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lunchboxpoems · 7 months
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YESIKA SALGADO
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litbowl · 1 year
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From Yesika Salgado's book, Hermosa. (Not a Cult, 2019).
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harmlesscigarette · 12 days
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"Communion," Yesika Salgado
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chasingcyjs · 6 months
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mediaproject-latam · 2 years
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The Case of the Latinx Identity
As I was researching more about Latinx identity, I stumbled upon an NPR conversation between Yesika Salgado, a poet from El Salvador, and Lázaro Lima, a Cuban professor from Hunter College. The conversation was in lieu of Hispanic Heritage Month, and the main topic was identity. Listening to both of them discuss what their identity is to them was eye-opening in the sense of seeing how two immigrants approach their own identity while living and working in America. The conversation started with them opening up about their backgrounds transgressing into a conversation about race. Most importantly, they talk about how important identity representation is in America compared to how people see identity in Latin American countries where it is a given. There is a difference between being Latinx in America compared to whichever home country just because America has established itself on the basis of whiteness being the standard without the need for exploration. Other countries such as the one in Latin America have established ethnicities according to country and do not call into question what identity means to them, as they have a solid one given to them from birth. For immigrants and the diaspora, this is more nuanced and difficult, as some people start to lose their identity due to the influences of the country they reside in. This loss and questioning of identity is a big issue and is also the reason why representation in media and across the board is important. People feel left out if they do not fill out a certain trait that their identity is associated with. Especially in diaspora, the feeling of losing your own self due to outside influences poses a problem. These challenges are here to be discussed and resolved, rather than put in the back and forgotten.
What Saldago and Lima also discuss is how the Latinx community keeps evolving and challenging every name they put on themselves. A big amount of the community still rejects the Latinx name due to preferring other identities. There is also the mention of old identity monikers dying in order to represent new generations and how their lives are affected living in America with different heritages.
The conversation between the two can be found here:
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046519817/we-belong-here-we-have-always-been-here-a-conversation-on-the-latinx-identity
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