Fall 2026
Fall 2026 features a portfolio of Latinx Flash Memoir edited by Joy Castro. Contributors to the issue include David Joez Villaverde, John Amen, Jennifer Franklin, Myronn Hardy, Rachel Hadas, Hannah Smith, Josiane Kouagheu, Abhishek Mehta, Virginia Lake, Joemario Umana, Jen Siraganian, Rebecca Lilly, Andrew Bertaina, Kate Kearns, Carolyn Williams-Noren, Richard Cole, Lizzie Hutton, Ben Perkins, John Kinsella, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Joan Murray, Nathan Metz, Lynne Potts, Ryan R. Kelley, Jory Mickelson, Sarah Kruse, Monmita Chakrabarti, Jordan Hamel, Tyler McAndrew, Uchechukwu Onyedikam, Anthony Aguero, Henk Rossouw, John Hart, Laura Demers, Joy Castro, John Morán González, Annette M. Rodríguez, Luis J. Rodríguez, Nancy Friedemann- Sánchez, Alejandro Nodarse, Sara Daniele Rivera, Sergio Troncoso, Aracelis González Asendorf, Raúl Lorca Madrid, Lorraine M. López, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Sandra Cisneros, Ángel García, Patricia Engel, Ana Menéndez, Daniel A. Olivas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, José Navarro, Rigoberto González, Carmen E. Lamas, Marco Fernando Navarro, Paty Abril-Gonzalez, Alexander Ramirez, Daisy Hernández, Thomás Jesús Garza, Mónica A. Jiménez, James López, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Lisandro Pérez, Belinda Acosta, Brook McClurg, Anjanette Delgado, and Travis Cohen Acosta.
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Latinx Flash Memoir
Loving Forward Anyway (preface, Latinx Flash Memoir portfolio)
Joy Castro
Checkpoint
John Morán González
Geranium
Annette M. Rodríguez
Artist Statement | Biombo 1 | Tornatrás | Self- Portrait with Papaya (detail) | Cornucopia | Matar, Rematar, Recontramatar / Kill, Overkill, Superoverkill | Dream Map and Cornucopia with Flames | Un Acordeón tras la Reja | Dream Map and Cornucopia with Green Eyes
Nancy Friedemann- Sánchez
Why I Can Love the United States and Mexico
Luis J. Rodríguez
Empty Desks
Alejandro Nodarse
Embudito Canyon
Sara Daniele Rivera
A Temporary Border
Sergio Troncoso
Why We Came
Aracelis González Asendorf
We’re Here
Raúl Lorca Madrid
Sturdy Girl
Lorraine M. López
Coyote Blotter
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
To Cheng Chen, with Love
Sandra Cisneros
Crybaby
Ángel García
Come As You Are
Patricia Engel
Some Notes on Patriarchy
Ana Menéndez
Only a Little While Here
Daniel A. Olivas
La Chingona Guide to Baldness
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Baptized in Blood
José Navarro
You Hate Easter
Rigoberto González
We Were Not the Wealthy Cubans | My Mother
Carmen E. Lamas
When My Mother Sings
Marco Fernando Navarro
Ojos Is Eyes
Paty Abril-Gonzalez
The Recipe
Alexander Ramirez
I believed everything they said about Jesse Jackson
Daisy Hernández
Manos Vacías
Thomás Jesús Garza
Amor del Viejo
Mónica A. Jiménez
Dirty Feet
James López
Some Notes to My Baby | Attachment
Kirstin Valdez Quade
Fuller Brush Man
Lisandro Pérez
Suerza
Belinda Acosta
Plumb
Brook McClurg
Minor Breach of Motherhood
Anjanette Delgado
Essays
Shakespeare in Paris
Myronn Hardy
Sex Strike
Ben Perkins
Gut Feeling
Monmita Chakrabarti
Acts of Translation
Travis Cohen Acosta
Fiction
The Coast of Maine
Andrew Bertaina
The Return of the Girl Detective
Ryan R. Kelley
Life in Reverse
Tyler McAndrew
Pink Frosting
Laura Demers
Poetry
Usted
David Joez Villaverde
Hart
John Amen
Virginia Woolf and the River Ouse | To Virginia Woolf after Reading about Your Rest Cures | With Lines from Virginia Woolf | Beginning and Ending with the Same Line by Virginia Woolf
Jennnifer Franklin
Limpid
Rachel Hadas
Into the Lugubrium
Hannah Smith
once upon a time, a poet inside the war reporter (ii)
Josiane Kouagheu
They, these | A different name
Abhishek Mehta
The Year of the Snake
Virginia Lake
One Prayer | In the hands of prayer
Joemario Umana
Self-Portrait with Diana Al-Hadid’s The Candle Clock in the Citadel
Jen Siraganian
The Elements of a Poem
Rebecca Lilly
To the AI Writing Poems
Kate Kearns
English II | History IV [Now] | Music II
Carolyn Williams-Noren
The Cost of Doing Business
Richard Cole
Enthusiasms
Lizzie Hutton
Echo and Narcissus | Nocturne
John Kinsella
A Mirror Triptych | Fungible
Benjamin S. Grossberg
Her Reality
Joan Murray
Willard Airport
Nathan Metz
On the Occasion of My 83rd Birthday
Lynne Potts
[Everyone expects] | [Give me your red]
Jory Mickelson
Almost Stealing Dorianne Laux’s Lighter
Sarah Kruse
How to Write a Boy Back into the Living
Jordan Hamel
Road to Damascus
Uchechukwu Onyedikam
An Act
Anthony Aguero
Willapa | Fort Foster | Autosonnet
Henk Rossouw
Ars Poetica | Feast of St. Francis | Sad Poems
John Hart
Spinal Column
A poem on the spine by Sandra Cisneros