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Erika L. Sánchez

Erika L. Sánchez is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf 2017), and the young adult novel, Brown Girl Problems (Knopf 2017). She has received a CantoMundo Fellowship, a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.

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Poetry
After the salt feast, I watched a bird peck at another bird who was already dead. . . .

Poem of My Humiliations

Erika L. Sánchez

Poetry

Summer boredom flutters its
sticky wings. You guzzle
cooking wine, gag on the old whiskey
you...

Quinceañera

Erika L. Sánchez

       

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