Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social made Itasca's list of top 10 titles overall AND specifically amongst CLMP member publishers for March! Yay!

Coming up: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music Tucson book launch event w/ @marchxness.bsky.social. 4/19 6pm 600 S. Meyer feat karaoke, books, readings by @stephjayb.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, Drew Krewer, @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, John Melillo, @angermonsoon.bsky.social, & Laura CJ Owen

Reading in Yuma is my desert writer achievement level unlocked! Catch me at Sunny's Book Truck (which is a brick and mortar store!) on Friday, May 15th.

Que Viva Zapata: Consider The Gits by Raquel Gutiérrez From the Backlist (March Plaidness, 2021)

"The night of The Gits show I didn’t know I was already unambitious—a product of my generation’s pride and constraint.

Revisiting @raquefella.bsky.social's March Plaidness 2021 essay on The Gits' "Second Skin" here on flashback Sunday: open.substack.com/pub/marchxne...

Mark your calendars! Noemi authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social and @raquefella.bsky.social are reading alongside Gabrielle Civil and Taneum Bambrick at North Figueroa Bookshop on Thursday, February 26th!

Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for reviewing Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social!

Read the full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9781955992695

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Shoutout to Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social for being amongst Itasca's top 10 titles for December 2025!

Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords - Tin House Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist of the 20th century,” so why is it likely that you haven’t read or even heard of Elena Garro before now? And ...

Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com

By ep.4 I got why. She's been through it.

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: December 5 A photographer documents extreme drought in Chihuahua and a Tucson poet talks apocalypse, and finding inspiration from Interstate 10 for her new book. Plus, more news from across the border region.

Nice weekly roundup with @theborderchronicle.bsky.social's Melissa Del Bosque and Caroline Tracey, with a mention of my new poetry collection, Southwest Reconstruction.
substack.com/@melissadelb...

"You have to learn to write when you don't want to."

@raquefella.bsky.social answers 10 questions from @pw.org about the writing process behind their debut poetry collection Southwest Reconstruction, out now.

Read the full interview here: www.pw.org/content/ten_...

Such a privilege to be edited by AC. Gracias por todo, compa!

It has been a gift to see @raquefella.bsky.social nurture this collection of landscapes, loss, tenderness, and a yawp into the ethereal futures we must imagine.

Order two copies, one for you and one for your beloved:

www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...

Gracias, compa! Couldn't have made it without you! Abrazotes 🫂🥰

“You have to learn to write when you don’t feel like it.” In today's #TenQuestions, @raquefella.bsky.social shares an inside look at the writing process of their debut poetry collection, Southwest Reconstruction out now from @noemipress.bsky.social. Read more: at.pw.org/10qRG

Book cover and books. Southwest Reconstruction poetry book.

Just got my author copies of ⚡️Southwest Reconstruction⚡️, my poetry debut with @noemipress.bsky.social, out tomorrow, Dec 2. 10 years in the making, y'all. Find it at an online bookstore near you.

Column: L.A. exploded into a world art capital. I was lucky to be here to witness it Los Angeles' ascension coincided with the 46-year career of art critic Christopher Knight. In his final column for The Times, he cites three important factors in that rise.

Christopher Knight's @knightlat.bsky.social's last column for the LA Times! 🫡
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Are you ready for our final release of the year? You don’t want to miss Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social, a “lyrical, elegiac, fiercely alive and existing at the cultural intersections of a settler mestizaje,” out December 2!

From Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social, out tomorrow!

Noemi reading TONIGHT at 7PM at Wave Archive in Tucson!

Featuring Poetry Editor @dianaarterian.bsky.social,
Executive Director @sargzem.bsky.social, and authors @utopiaminus.bsky.social, @raquefella.bsky.social, @jdpluecker.bsky.social, Claire Hong, and @faridmatuk.bsky.social

A painted abstract of a masculine figure against a yellow background.

My profile on beloved poet Richard Siken is up at Poetry Foundation. Hope you'll check it out!
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173...

New interview up Poets dot org
poets.org/text/enjambm...

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

Reagan-Era AIDS Activists Call for New ACT UP-Style Movement for Trans Liberation In an exclusive interview, two prominent members of ACT UP, which has been credited with saving millions of lives, hope to inspire younger LGBTQ activists to embark on a bold trans liberation movement

My ACT UP LA Oral History Project co-producers in conversation with journalist Maddy Castigan. One of my photos is included in this piece.

Poets. Always.

I organized 3 L.A. OMNIBUS events for the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. Save the dates: March 13, March 27, and April 24. First up: TREN AL SUR, feat. CAROLINA MIRANDA! Read more here ⤵️
cap.ucla.edu/event/la-omn...