Proem By Octavio Paz   At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death;   the walk with eyes closed along the edge of the cliff, and the       verbena in submarine gardens;   the laughter that sets on [...]

a remix for remembrance By Kristiana Rae Colón For my students   This is for the boys whose bedrooms are in the basement, who press creases into jeans, who carve their names in pavement, the girls whose names are ancient, ancestry is sacred, the Aztec and the Mayan gods abuela [...]

This Is Just To Say By William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox   and which you were probably saving for breakfast   Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold   ## William Carlos Williams was born in 1883, the first [...]

Bent to the Earth By Blas Manuel de Luna They had hit Ruben with the high beams, had blinded him so that the van he was driving, full of Mexicans going to pick tomatoes, would have to stop. Ruben spun   the van into an irrigation ditch, spun the five-year-old [...]

“My favorite memory of playing around in Colombia is that randomly out of nowhere it would start raining, and it would just be the most beautiful rain,” shared Kali Uchis over IG Live on Wednesday evening. As part of a month-long series for Hispanic Heritage Month, Yaris Sanchez sat down with [...]

This past May, we re-launched our platform with a new vision and a new look. We committed to creating a space that celebrated distinct cultures, voices, and stories. We told ourselves that above all else, we wanted to avoid being put in a box. We’ve all experienced this box – [...]

When Adelyn was 7-years-old, she would regularly pray for one thing before going to bed at night: that God would make her a girl after death. Now, at twelve, she is living openly as a transgender girl in South Texas. In a newly released video, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) [...]

“You can’t have the room feel like it’s bigger than you.” – (maybe) Will Smith “La Primera Vez” is the digital talk show that lets you get to know your favorite Latinx celebrities. In this episode, host Christina Reid sits down with Dominican-born American television host, actress, and model Julissa [...]

Laz Alonso, from Amazon’s series “The Boys,” used his social media platform earlier this month to address the ongoing protests in Cuba and speak to the political situation of his ancestral homeland. His comments came as a response to the Black Lives Matter statement on the political situation in Cuba [...]

Puerto Rican rapper-producer Jodosky, praised for his old-school take on reggaetón, champions body positivity in his new track encouraging plus sized people to feel sexy and confident in their own bodies by dancing reggaetón. His single, “Quien Dijo Que Los Gordos No Perrean?” comes out Friday, July 23 and Latina [...]