My poetry collection "Undershore" (Lightscatter Press 2023) is structured around a series of “visitations,” or imagined encounters with my mother after her death from breast cancer. The book’s title “undershore” describes the location of these visitations, a space that is liminal, submerged, dreamlike—interior to the self while also at the edge of the self. Grief, in my experience, comes in waves; I hope the turns and returns of these visitations throughout the manuscript reflect this tidal movement.
Kelly Hoffer on "Visitation" |
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"Combining Poetry and Politics": New San Mateo County Poet
"As a storyteller, López wants to reshape the longstanding narrative about East Palo Alto and its residents, dismantling stereotypes on race, class and economic status. In 2021, López published Gentefication, a poetry collection narrating his youth and coming of age in East Palo Alto while expanding his relationship with his race, identity, class and spirituality. His book was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gregory Pardlo for the 2021 Lewis Prize in Poetry, published by Four Way Books, for his work that 'adorns novelty with innovation.'"
via THE DAILY JOURNAL |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Chloe Garcia Roberts on Language as Form
"I’ve always enjoyed the thought of writing as a force that could effect the inversion of that arrow, the timeline, with its incessant forward hurl. For this piece though, I wanted to attempt to use my subjective experience as a basis for objective conclusions. I dreamt about writing poems that were lightly disguised as a proofs. 'Temporal Saturation' is the first poem in Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology, and it is the template that I used for writing the rest of the book. The first part of the poem is analytic and the second lyric but neither section can exist without each other, they are one." |
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