This week in our series highlighting the poetry of Southern Latinx writers, we share "Iconoclast" a poem by Andrea Beltran exploring memory and devotion and "Domestic Violence," a searing poem by Iliana Rocha.
Author Archives: Iliana Rocha
Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in English and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, as well as The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and West Branch. Karankawa, her debut collection, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Oklahoma and lives with her three chihuahuas, Nilla, Beans, and Migo.