Somos Ajolotes / We Are Axolotls

Somos Ajolotes / We are Axolotls is an edited collection of major US Latin@ poets, who have lived in the US, or worked in the US as part of the Chican@/Latin@ communities. Poets included are from the Midwest, the Northwest, the East coast and Washington DC, Texas, and the entire Southwest and West coast. Some of the countries their families represent are México, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Colombia. Some of our major poets appear in print together for the first time: Rei Berroa, Brenda Cárdenas, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, José Enrique Delmonte, Melanie Pérez Ortiz, Adela Najarro, Matt Sedillo, David Romero, Manuel Cortés Castañeda, among many others.

Paperback, 326 pages., $21. ISBN: 978-1-105-86558-9. Order from Lulu.

This book was supported by a SAGA Grant from Spokane Arts.