Iliana Rocha

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Iliana Rocha

Iliana Rocha is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry for her most recent collection, The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez, forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Karankawa, her debut, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

“Los Angeles Light Box” (2017), by Travis Boyer. Courtesy Travis Boyer and SIGNAL. Photo by Kyle Clairmont Jacques

Issue 111, Winter 2020

Another Selena Poem

November 10, 2020

A poem from the Greatest Hits Music Issue

Oh, oh, baby: the door opened making new, irregular / air, startled into the shape of Texas. Blood behind each syllable, / as if my body recognized touch & pulse before a hand / had ever laid there.