Bainbridge Island Press publishes my chapbook Simultaneous States!

This innovative and dynamic press with a new vision for chapbook publishing has published my poetry chapbook, Simultaneous States!

My new chapbook, Simultaneous States, consists of 16 poems inspired by the experience of being two things at once---to feel both native and alien, both spirit and flesh, both the observer and the observed, both in the present and in the past. Many of the poems depict encounters and visitations that draw attention to these parallel experiences, some in reality, and some only in the imagination.

Featured on WLRN for the 10th anniversary of the Zipode!

(This was an almost 10 minute interview on public radio by 
Sherrilyn Cabrera, WLRN's senior producer.)

Label Me Latina/o publishes my poem "In Memory of Borges"

 After auditing a class, The Library of Borges, with FIU professor Rhona Trauvitch, I was inspired to write this poem, In Memory of Borges, which was later accepted for publication by Label Me Latina/o and published in the Fall of 2024. 

Arte Latino NOW 2023 published my sonnet "Dismissed"

 

ARTE LATINO NOW 2023: Virtual Exhibition, Performance and Readings

Sponsored by The Center for Latino Studies at Queens University of Charlotte in partnership with artist Edwin Gil, and Queens’ Department of World Languages and Department of Art, Design and Music, ARTE LATINO NOW seeks to highlight the exciting cultural and artistic contributions of Latinos in the United States

Published my sonnet "Dismissed".

Duo: Poetry by Women anthology by Linen Press includes my poem "The Fourth Brontë Sister"

Duo: Poetry by Women anthology by Linen Press.  

Arte Latino NOW 2022!

Very gratified to be included in the virtual exhibit Arte Latino NOW 2022. which includes my poem in two parts--"Native."

Beatriz F. Fernandez: Writer - ARTE LATINO NOW 2022 Virtual Exhibition, Performance and Readings (dropmark.com)

This poem was inspired by a class I attended in the Fall, 2021 with Presidential Inaugural poet Richard Blanco, and by his new book, How to Love a Country.  

Celebrating National Poetry Month 2022 with two publications!

 

A little late, but now announcing two of my historical poems were published during National Poetry Month in a new Copperfield Review anthology, Made by History: An Anthology of Historical Fiction!

"Nova's Voice" a feminist, persona poem published in MER (Mom Egg Review) 20!

Inspired by the iconic final scene in the original The Planet of the Apes film, "Nova's Voice" was published in Mom Egg Review's Mother Figures issue--just in time for Mother's Day!  I sent my Mom a copy--she's 99 years young!  She always encouraged me to write and kept everything I ever wrote from Kindergarten verses on.

Poetry Publication: "Departures" in Anacua Literary Arts Journal

 Very happy and honored to have a new poem published in the new issue of the Anacua Literary Arts Journal!  

Departures

Many thanks to editors Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Prickly Pear Publishing

and

Edward Vidaurre, FlowerSong Press

"We go into neighborhoods and areas where high school students and community members have not normally had the opportunity or been empowered to tell or write their own stories or do other kinds of creative writing such as poetry, creative non-fiction, memoir, or fiction. By offering no or low cost creative writing workshops either on a one time basis or preferably in a week long project, we are able to work magic. "