A raw hip-hop critique of Latin American inequality; migration; violence; and cultural survival from marginalized urban perspectives.

Two men in uniform flee through a tangled jungle. They are deserters. They are lovers. Lovers fleeing toward freedom as they enter each other's prison. A first image as paradoxical as the fact that man can make time move forward by delving into the…

Fierce Times can be read as an intimate and essential diary of a country crumbling. From everyday anecdotes to political analysis, with lucidity but also with humor and tenderness, Padrón investigates and records reality, always seeking to tell it…

Everything takes place on a border, the one that separates the eastern mountain range from the western one. Angustias Romero flees the plague with her husband and two children strapped to her back. The seven-month-old twins die on the journey, and…

Lisbon Syndrome takes place in a near future or an alternate present. The collapse of communications and the widespread failure of technology rumors surrounding what happened on the other side of the world discouraging and distressing. The…

How long can you hold your breath and follow a string to the bottom of a waterfall? Contra el régimen de lo fluido asks how you would fall knowing you must resist. These poems are mnemonic screenshots of the author’s request for affirmative asylum to…