Latina poetry

Latina poetry is poetry written by women of Latin American ancestry.

Many Latina poets live in the United States. Some are American immigrants. Others are born in the United States into Latin American families. Mexican-American women poets, Cuban-American women poets, and Puerto Rican women poets are examples of Latina poets.They often write poems code-switching between Spanish and English. Some Latina poets write mix English and Spanish into Spanglish.

The main Latina poets are Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Giannina Braschi, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Cherríe Moraga, and Lorna Dee Cervantes. Newer Latina poets include Ada Limon, Monica de la Torre, and Elizabeth Acevedo. Latina poetry has many different literary styles. Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo write lyric poems about families, migration, and borders.  Giannina Braschi writes epic poetry about love, politics, and war.

 Themes 
Latina poetry has many subjects. Popular topics are love, family, immigration, exile, the Mexican border with the United States, and social justice. Many Latina poets, including Ana Castillo, Julia Alvarez, and Judith Cofer Ortiz, write about their family, food, language, Latino culture, and their grandmothers.

 Latina poets 

 Elizabeth Acevedo
 Julia Alvarez
 Gloria E. Anzaldúa
 Giannina Braschi
 Carmen Boullosa 
 Ana Castillo
 Sandra Cisneros
 Cynthia Cruz
 Julia de Burgos
 Sandra Maria Esteves
 Rosario Ferre
 Lorna Dee Cervantes
 Ada Limon
 Carmen Maria Machado
 Lupe Mendez
 Nancy Mercado
 Cherríe Moraga

 Related pages 
 Poetry
 American poetry
 Latin American poetry
 Chicano

 Further reading 
 Floricanto Si!: A Collection of Latina Poetry, edited by Bryce Milligan and Angela de Hoyos. (Penguin, 1998)
 These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women, edited by Marjorie Agosin (White Pine Press, 1991).
 FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum (2012).

 References 

Category:Poetry
Category:Literature by ethnicity