Red Seed: Poems for Luno
Tsitsokgo talhtsí: kamaxanatliw papa'
Semilla roja: Poemas para Luno

Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juárez
Translated by Wendy Call and Whitney DeVos

Publication date: March 6, 2026

Poetry / Chapbook / 48 pages

ISBN 978-1-945720-41-3

Mexican poet Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juárez is the first woman to publish a bilingual Tutunakú-Spanish book of poetry; this trilingual chapbook draws from Xlaktsuman papa’ / Las hijas del Luno (2021), her debut poetry collection.

The subtitle, “Poems for Luno,” uses the masculine version of the Spanish word for moon (the feminine “luna”), referencing the Tutunakú belief that the moon (papa’) is the metaphorical father of all women. Papa’ / Luno bestows the gift of their womanhood, as regulator of the menstrual cycle; his monthly arrival is characterized as an amorous affair. This erotic relation is celebrated in Lucas Juárez’s poems, which weave together images of Luno as he appears to the speaker—and to her maternal ancestors—in dreams, quotidian moments, and Tukunakú stories.

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Antuco

Carlos Soto Román | Carlos Cardani Parra
Translated from the Spanish by Judah Rubin

Publication date: April 8, 2026
Poetry / Paperback / 360 pages

ISBN 978-1-945720-42-0

A molecular accounting of the slow congealing of human flesh, Antuco is a condemnation of the tragedy at the root of authority, the expendability of human life undergirding military hierarchy and the nation-state itself.

In the largest peacetime loss of life in Chilean military history, dozens of Chilean conscript soldiers froze to death during a 2005 alpine military training exercise at the Antuco volcano. Engaging documentary and visual modes to submerge the reader in whiteout, Antuco compacts a devastating coagulation of eco-poetics and social poetics to document the tragedy and its aftermath, through hymns and combat clothing labels alongside chemical formulas and military orders. In Antuco’s polyvocality we see the interstices, the crevices from which hegemony seeps, as well as the con-scripted relationship of reader and writer, event and mediation, in the fractured and fracturing parallax frames that we call history. When Cardani Parra and Soto Román write of ice, it is commentary on the social body at large, the shattering consequences of just following orders: "freezing is a change in the physical state / a reordering of the molecular structure." 

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Jaws
[Tiburón]

Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza
Translated from the Spanish by Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier

Publication date: May 21, 2026
Poetry / Paperback / 148 pages  
ISBN 978-1-945720-43-7

“Something in my name turns me into a fish under attack,” says Jaws—shark, worker, spectacle. This award-winning poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack.

JAWS is a book about water, breath, and suffocation, about work that disciplines the body, about survival under glass. Through (mis)translation, documentary fragments, and cinematic archive, these poems reveal how capital renders certain lives expendable, human and non-human alike. Fierce, darkly funny, and formally restless, JAWS insists on the shark not as monster, but as mirror—swimming, working, alive and curious about where meaning breaks down across languages, worlds, and personas… and what lurks in the waters between.

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Declaration of Independence
Declaración de Independencia

Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
Translated into Spanish by Hernán Bravo Varela

Publication date: July 4, 2026
Poetry / Chapbook / 36 pages
ISBN 978-1-945720-44-4

This documentary poem, constructed exclusively from the United States Declaration of Independence, pits the founding archive against the somatic immediacy of a body politic.

Unfolding original syntax to probe the pathology of American masculinity, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg enacts a rigorous exercise of constraint and reconfiguration, spanning the spectral distance from Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump. The poem exposes the uncanny resonances of 18th-century lexicon, where terms like “migrations” and “trade” already vibrate with the systemic violence of the present. By recasting the rejection of the Tyrant into a frantic address to a scornful lover and absent father, this Declaration fashions a counter-epic of lyric urgency. Against the original’s certainty, this remix leaves us with “no self-evident truths in separation / but foreign bodies against each other.”

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A Little Pretty Personality
Una pequeña personalidad linda

Berta García Faet
Translated from the Spanish by Kelsi Vanada

Publication date: September 9, 2026
Poetry / Paperback / 314 pages
ISBN 978-1-945720-45-1

A wild romp of an epic, this book sings to us of unperceived formations of language and culture. A Little Pretty Personality summons writings from across eras to assay a communal hymn that examines historical trajectories and constructions of romance, love and gender. Its poems reveal a language in constant fracture, which amalgamates wordplay, archaisms, allusions ranging from the Quijote to pop lyrics, and re-writings of poems by Federico García Lorca, César Vallejo and Alejandra Pizarnik. "Squirting multiplications,"this book leaves "stretch marks" on language, as a voice emerges between echoes and caresses of past lives. As a wandering narrator announces, shifting across landscapes, "don’t be afraid / of not having the keys."

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Counter-mapping in Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology
Contramapeo en poesía: una antología bilingüe 

Various authors
Curation, essays and translations by Gianca Huapaya and Honora Spicer

Poetry / Paperback / 340 pages
ISBN 978-1-945720-47-5

Grounded in the textual and visual analysis of works from the Latin American avant-garde, concrete poetry, documentary poetry, and critical cartography, Counter-mapping in Poetry / Contramapeo en poesía investigates visual forms of representing spaces at the intersection of poetry and mapping. An anthology of poetic counter-maps from across the hemispheric Americas, the anthology traces 20th and 21st-century lineages behind poetic cartographies written in English and Spanish. Accompanying essays explore a constellation of key concepts in poetic counter-maps, from orientation to archives to scale. A central ethic of counter-mapping in poetry has been to make transparent the orientation of the poet within historical and spatial environments by engaging practices to perceive more amply the poet's positionality and present. Prompts for poetic practice accompany translated texts and essays as invitations to readers to integrate new tools, literary traditions, and spatial and ethical orientations in their own investigative poetry. This collection is a guide towards how poets have confronted accumulations of power fixed in space, to respond to ordinary violences and to plot new narratives.