LatinX Audio Lit Mag

What an amazing Fourth Season! If you haven't had a chance to listen to the beautiful stories and poems over the last four seasons, then this is the perfect time to catch up. LatinxLit will be reading and recording submissions all summer long, and come back in September ready to rock your world. We can't wait to show you the magic.

Have a great summer.

Mother's Day just passed, and we're celebrating it the Latinx Lit Audio Mag way, with a prose poem about a mother that is both beautiful and sad. Listen as David takes us through the writing of this one and how he navigated writing through grief.

David Estringel is a Xicanx writer/poet with works published in literary publications, such as The Opiate, Azahares, Cephalorpress, Lahar, Poetry Ni, DREICH, Somos En Escrito, Ethel, The Milk House, Beir Bua Journal, and The Blue Nib. His first collection of poetry and short fiction Indelible Fingerprints was published April 2019, followed Blood Honey and Cold Comfort House in 2022, little punctures in 2023, and Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink (scheduled for publication in 2024). David has written six poetry chapbooks, Punctures, PeripherieS, Eating Pears on the Rooftop, Golden Calves Blue, and Sour Grapes. Connect with David on Twitter⁠@The_Booky_Man⁠ and his website ⁠www.davidaestringel.com⁠. 

"Long has it been since I’ve heard...The thump…thump…thump of black stone on black stone—the molcajete—mashing cumino seeds, granos de pimiento negra, and cloves of garlic—with snaps and pops—into glorious salves that staved off hungers, deep and brash."

David Estringel is a Xicanx writer/poet with works published in literary publications, such as The Opiate, Azahares, Cephalorpress, Lahar, Poetry Ni, DREICH, Somos En Escrito, Ethel, The Milk House, Beir Bua Journal, and The Blue Nib. His first collection of poetry and short fiction Indelible Fingerprints was published April 2019, followed Blood Honey and Cold Comfort House in 2022, little punctures in 2023, and Blind Turns in the Kitchen Sink (scheduled for publication in 2024). David has written six poetry chapbooks, Punctures, PeripherieS, Eating Pears on the Rooftop, Golden Calves Blue, and Sour Grapes. Connect with David on Twitter@The_Booky_Man and his website www.davidaestringel.com. 

Latina Muslims are the fastest-growing ethnic group in Islam. However, many of the conversations surrounding Latinas and Muslims often don't include the intersection of these groups. In today’s episode, Evelyn Alsultany will discuss her book Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (2022), which was listed as one of the 10 best scholarly books of 2022 by The Chronicle of Higher Education and was a finalist for the Association of American Publishers’ Prose Award. 

Evelyn Alsultany is a Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College and author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11. She is the co-author of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging and Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. As a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US media, she co-authored the Obeidi-Alsultany Test to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims and serves as a consultant for Hollywood studios.

In this episode, Samantha tackles the question: what can wealth mean to a creative in a capitalistic society? We also talk about the wonder of the neighborhood tamale seller. Warning: this episode might make you want tamales.

Samantha is a lesbian Chicana poet from East LA. She began writing short stories when she was six and grew to love poetry throughout her educational career. She is a current student at UC Berkeley earning her BA in Chicanx & Latinx Studies. Samantha hopes to work with teens from her community to combat violence through artistic expression, such as poetry, digital art, and photography. You can follow along Samantha's artistic journey on Instagram at ⁠@dr3aming.chicana.⁠, her personal Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/dr3aming.chicana⁠, poetry Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/browneyezpoet⁠, business Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/thebrownprideshop⁠, and business Website: ⁠www.thebrownprideshop.bigcartel.com⁠

"I want wealth in my spirit!

Honoring the souls of my ancestors who made la cultura what it is today;

Honoring the stories of my primos y tios y tias floating across the border;

Honoring the crisp dickies and pro clubs stuffed in my drawers because they are more than just clothes, they are our way of expression."

 Samantha is a lesbian Chicana poet from East LA. She began writing short stories when she was six and grew to love poetry throughout her educational career. She is a current student at UC Berkeley earning her BA in Chicanx & Latinx Studies. Samantha hopes to work with teens from her community to combat violence through artistic expression, such as poetry, digital art, and photography. You can follow along Samantha's artistic journey on Instagram at @dr3aming.chicana., her personal Instagram: www.instagram.com/dr3aming.chicana, poetry Instagram: www.instagram.com/browneyezpoet, business Instagram: www.instagram.com/thebrownprideshop, and business Website: www.thebrownprideshop.bigcartel.com

If you enjoyed the way Tak wove the deeply personal with the natural world in her two poems, you're going to love hearing how she came to write them. And if you're looking to purchase her book Tourist, which published on April 11, 2023, you can do so at ⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠ or at ⁠⁠Sea Crow Press.⁠⁠

TAK Erzinger is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. Her poetry has been featured in Bien Acompañada from Cornell University, The Muse from McMaster University, River And South Review, The Welter, and more. Her debut chapbook, Found: Between The Trees was published by Grey Border Books, Canada 2019. Erzinger’s most recent poetry collection, At The Foot Of The Mountain, Floricanto Press, California 2021, has been announced by the University of Indianapolis, Etchings Press as the Whirling Prize winner for 2021 for best nature poetry book. Her first audio drama, Stella’s Constellation, was produced by Alternative Stories And Fake Realities Podcasts, out of the UK.

"Yo hablo, yo hablo así, you hablo así, en mi corozón…

When I began to speak, I parroted 

Mariposas instead of butterflies

and they appeared to be tropical

but I realised I was landlocked and 

it was winter with dusty snowflakes..."

Tak reads two poems from Tourist, her latest book of poetry. You can purchase a copy of Tourist at Amazon and at Sea Crow Press.

TAK Erzinger is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. Her poetry has been featured in Bien Acompañada from Cornell University, The Muse from McMaster University, River And South Review, The Welter, and more. Her debut chapbook, Found: Between The Trees was published by Grey Border Books, Canada 2019. Erzinger’s most recent poetry collection, At The Foot Of The Mountain, Floricanto Press, California 2021, has been announced by the University of Indianapolis, Etchings Press as the Whirling Prize winner for 2021 for best nature poetry book. Her first audio drama, Stella’s Constellation, was produced by Alternative Stories And Fake Realities Podcasts, out of the UK.

In which Lysz teaches Teresa about Pastelon, forever changing her life for the better. Also, there are never enough love poems about family/friend love, and Lysz walks us through how she wrote this one. Be prepared for some deep moments, like when Lyzs says "Sometimes people save you in ways that you have no words for."

Lysz Flo is an Afrolatinx, trilingual spoken word artist, author of fiction and poetry, member of The Estuary Collective, and a podcast host of Creatively Exposed, Grubstreet educator, and Voodoonauts Summer 2020 Fellow. She released her poetry novel Soliloquy of an Ice Queen, March 2020. You can find her work at: 
https://www.lyszflo.com,  her podcast Creatively Exposed at:  https://anchor.fm/lyszflo, and the Lysz Flo Reflects Chapbook at: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780368106927?aff=LyszFlo 

12 Steps is a Zine—part 1.5 to Soliloquy of an Ice Queen—a collection of poems about releasing the addiction to desire & loving someone in steps. The ugly, the difficult, heartbreaking and faltering of letting go. Go to https://simplebooklet.com/12steps1 for the audio/ebook if you want to hear Lysz read to you $7.77

You can get a limited edition, signed print copy https://astrolyszics.com/products/12-steps-of-letting-go for $11.11 plus shipping 

"Wela, Vieja, who loves moons on her nails 

and stars in my eyes."

Sometimes the greatest love stories have nothing to do with romance. This is one of them.

Lysz Flo is an Afrolatinx, trilingual spoken word artist, author of fiction and poetry, member of The Estuary Collective, and a podcast host of Creatively Exposed, Grubstreet educator, and Voodoonauts Summer 2020 Fellow. She released her poetry novel Soliloquy of an Ice Queen, March 2020. You can find her work at:
https://www.lyszflo.com,  her podcast Creatively Exposed at:  https://anchor.fm/lyszflo, and the Lysz Flo Reflects Chapbook at: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780368106927?aff=LyszFlo

12 Steps is a Zine—part 1.5 to Soliloquy of an Ice Queen—a collection of poems about releasing the addiction to desire & loving someone in steps. The ugly, the difficult, heartbreaking and faltering of letting go. Go to https://simplebooklet.com/12steps1 for the audio/ebook if you want to hear Lysz read to you $7.77

You can get a limited edition, signed print copy https://astrolyszics.com/products/12-steps-of-letting-go for $11.11 plus shipping