https://www.achyobejas.com/news daily 0.75 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/b56eac08-41c1-4bb1-857a-88d6b5de9f84/Screen+Shot+2022-07-27+at+10.58.55+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/66569a9c-a90b-4bb6-bb4e-0947f6ac65a0/Screen+Shot+2022-07-11+at+1.41.25+PM.png News - On Gendered Language Poetry Foundation Featured Blogger: When my bilingual poetry collection, Boomerang/Bumerán, was published last year, I felt a tremendous sense of gratification at seeing one of its central elements—the use of non-gendered language, particularly in Spanish—recognized, and often lauded by critics. It’s not as though there weren’t dissenting voices, though. A sister poet decried in a social media post how I’d ruined Spanish, that I’d perverted a few lines of a classic tango by excising gender from the lyrics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/d43572eb-0ef5-4a6a-a2e8-fe49be4dd219/Screen+Shot+2022-04-20+at+8.35.26+PM.png News - 5 CALÓ QUESTIONS: ACHY OBEJAS, writer and translator, explores gender-free language https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1b15584a-2383-4916-bad3-81106c03a945/Screen+Shot+2022-04-18+at+9.09.49+AM.png News - READING ACHY OBEJAS’S BOOMERANG/BUMERÁN AS INDELIBLE AND RECURSIVE TESTIMONY If I had to define poetry in a single word, I’d choose serendipity. Poems have a way of finding us when we need them most, a fact reinforced for me when I discovered Achy Obejas’s new bilingual collection, Boomerang/Bumerán—or when it discovered me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/0430bf3f-bc02-4320-9ff9-0f154ca9acc2/Screen+Shot+2022-04-18+at+9.00.22+AM.png News - Being Bilingual as a Way of Life Achy Obejas’ new collection expands our sensibilities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/89034357-6988-4b06-93e0-127d0dde05ee/Screen+Shot+2022-04-14+at+4.06.14+PM.png News - An Accusatory Prayer The Sephardic Cuban poet Achy Obejas offers a bold, humanizing reinterpretation of traditional prayers BY JAKE MARMER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/e3177446-28c2-460f-a864-d1e0576f4844/Screen+Shot+2022-04-14+at+4.01.13+PM.png News - Desire, Memory, and Poetry as a Form of Prayer Achy Obejas’ “Boomerang/Bumerán” relishes the unique autobiography of poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/022035a0-a283-41c7-92b7-bcefd4de3b38/Screen+Shot+2022-02-15+at+9.37.15+AM.png News - A CUBAN-BORN WRITER ON TRANSLATION'S 'VITAL' ROLE By Marta Fernandez Campa Critically acclaimed Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas is the author of many works of prose and poetry, including seminal texts such as We Came all the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress Like This? (1994) and Memory Mambo (1996). Obejas’ most recent publication, Boomerang/Bumerán (2021), is a book of poetry that explores a wide range of themes, including love, exile, politics, gender and language from a multilingual perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/07d6ca5b-4e70-4ca2-be86-16a6f763973c/Screen+Shot+2022-01-14+at+11.26.45+AM.png News - Call Me Cassandra: An Evening with Marcial Gala, Anna Kushner and Achy Obejas From Marcial Gala, the author of the award-winning The Black Cathedral, Call Me Cassandra is a darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, who believes himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/251918a5-195c-4195-8679-95aa5da954f4/Screen+Shot+2021-12-23+at+7.55.12+PM.png News - Shoshana Olidort, Web Editor I keep coming back to Achy Obejas’s Boomerang/Bumerán, a bilingual book of poems in Spanish and English that interrogates the uses and abuses of language—in everything from mundane speech to sacred texts. “Kol Nidrei,” Obejas’s radical reimagining of a core Jewish liturgical text, stopped me in my tracks: “With the consent of no one, we pray among the dykes, the miscreants, the homeless, the enraged …” In a poem about the 2018 synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh that claimed eleven lives, Obejas memorializes the dead, wondering “if they understood what happened when it happened / if their hearing caught the stranger’s cry / if they pondered for an instant / if they were dreaming or confused.” But there is also humor in this collection, and love: “A lover may be conjured from under a beach umbrella, / via meditation, or a personal profile.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/263faf61-36c8-4f8b-8a13-f20235c0c81c/Screen+Shot+2021-12-12+at+9.18.49+PM.png News - The Ben Joravsky Show Achy Obejas is a poet, translator, novelist, journalist, and political junkie. She’s also a friend of Ben from way back when. They start out talking about Boomerang, her latest collection of poetry. And wind up taking the deep dive on everything from the politics of abortion to what the Democrats have to do to save America and beat MAGA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/560a986b-a6b2-4b30-8151-6247961b1e17/wallStreetJournal-01.jpg News - The Wall Street Journal Ada Ferrer: "I recently finished 'Boomerang/Bumerán,' a collection of poems by Achy Obejas which touch on themes of exile, sexuality, aging, violence and more. Daringly written mostly without gender pronouns, the poems discomfit the reader in the best possible way." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/fcf3e205-33ad-43a6-9455-e54a1a23611c/Screen+Shot+2021-11-19+at+6.29.53+PM.png News - Miami Book Fair Online. In Conversation: Pablo Medina & Achy Obejas In his collection The Foreigner’s Song: New and Selected Poems, Cuban-born American poet Pablo Medina reaches back to his six previous published collections and all the way to his first, published in 1975, adding 19 new works. His prose has a dreamlike quality in which familiarity and certainty surrender to strangeness. Achy Obejas’ Boomerang/Bumerán: Poetry/Poesía is a bilingual collection of lyrical poetry written in bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love, and activism. Moderated by poet Alexandra Lytton Regalado of Supporting Women Writers in Miami (SWWIM). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/53e3c1d3-e04d-46f8-92eb-e3028667227d/diario-01.jpg News - La escritora Achy Obejas publica un poemario bilingüe "Boomerang/Bumerán", de la cubanoamericana Achy Obejas, se presenta este 17 de noviembre en la Feria del Libro de Miami 17 de noviembre de 2021 - 11:11 - Por GRETHEL DELGADO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/949a8c08-d19e-43cf-8ed2-81076d91b630/podcast-01.jpg News - Episode 287: Boomerang with Achy Obejas Achy Obejas is an author and poet whose latest collection is Boomerang/Bumeran, poems in English and Spanish that aim to be gender-free (tough in Spanish) while addressing immigration, displacment, love, and activism. November 12, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/903f927e-204f-4756-b9bb-51ed11ae631f/kpfa-01.jpg News - Full Circle – November 5, 2021: Poetry and Revolution Listen to Full Circle on @KPFA to @_DariusSimpson, @AchyObejas @achylandia @guaraguasi & @MimiTempestt @thegoddessmimi explore the power of poetry, and it’s place in revolution. These virtual kitchen conversations were inspired by Audre Lorde’s essay Poetry is not a Luxury. We’ll share live recordings from @Litquake Out Loud’s outdoor stage 10/16 Revolution Poeticized which challenges each of us to reimagine what true political transformation looks like through poetry. In Three Voices, Three Worlds, Achy Obejas presents Boomerang/Bumerán, a bilingual collection of lyrical poetry written in mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/597a4568-7e9f-4c62-92d9-234915d517ed/boomerang.png News - Poetry Foundation REVIEWED BY REBECCA RUTH GOULD “This is political poetry at its finest, reimaging gender through translation, and in pursuit of collective liberation.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1634580017231-DOVV25XI1Y9LK6T7EQPJ/Screen+Shot+2021-10-18+at+10.59.35+AM.png News - WRB Latest Issues Boomerang / Bumerán By Achy Obejas Reviewed by Noelle McManus “... Obejas experiments with articles and word-endings to create a semblance of what Spanish may look like in the future.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1634322611207-LXOA3JVIZ075KIZC249H/Screen+Shot+2021-10-13+at+11.29.43+AM.png News - Twin Cities Book Festival On October 11th, 2021, Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival hosted a conversation with poets Achy Obejas and Phillip B. Williams to discuss their new books Boomerang/Bumerán (Beacon Press) and Mutiny (Penguin Poets) with Gary Dop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1634322897368-GOKMF049K5B8O4I6IM8H/Screen+Shot+2021-10-13+at+2.45.09+PM.png News - The Reader at 50 “I feel like my time at the Reader was probably the most important education I ever got,” Obejas says. “It was a great time for trying anything you wanted to do. It was so much fun. I wrote a story once, the entire story was about buying a hot dog and sitting at this place, I think it was just off Chicago Avenue, and watching the traffic outside the window. But I wrote it all in second person. So it read a little bit differently. And they published it, for god’s sake.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1634323435122-X1E5QGCQYMZMVUN7IH96/Screen+Shot+2021-10-13+at+10.57.27+AM.png News - WINDY CITY TIMES: THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 Achy Obejas' bilingual poetry book Boomerang/Bumeran explores immigration, liberation By Max Lubbers “WCT: The second part of the collection involves a lot of romance, and I noticed that exchange, of speaking to a "you" at some points. What was your experience writing that section? AO: They're love poems and they're not love poems. They're relationship poems. They're not "happy ever after" poems. They're not "I love you madly" poems. The disappointments in love are probably the greatest, saddest, most earth-shattering hurts. For me, love has been this constant search. It's sometimes been a very joyful experience and sometimes it's not been. You grow from each of these things. That's the recompense, I suppose, for the pain.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1632424499019-90YG3IJYKD6FEA2YJO5R/Screen+Shot+2021-09-23+at+12.14.15+PM.png News - The New York Times Books BOOMERANG: Poetry, by Achy Obejas. A sense of place and history anchors this bilingual volume, where even seduction might evoke a “layer of the dead” or “the plexus of light,/sound, water.” Obejas moves naturally and exhilaratingly from the personal to the political. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1631740663203-AZHYASP8K8XKYPEPIANI/Screen+Shot+2021-09-15+at+2.17.30+PM.png News - Elliot Bay Book Company Presents Achy Obejas with M. Evelina Galang Boomerang / Bumerá September 13, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1631472572266-XMTJJZDDP5EJG2QRVULT/Screen+Shot+2021-09-12+at+11.49.06+AM.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1628627836845-15XY63A2MW38KT8G4G8J/boomerang.png News - BOOMERANG / BUMERÁN From Booklist: An influential and prolific Cuban American journalist, fiction writer, and poet, Obejas is also an accomplished translator, and this bilingual poetry collection delivers its lyrics twice-over, appearing first primarily in English, followed by the entirety of the collection in Spanish. As a cutting-edge feminist, Obejas employs an interesting tactic to address traditionally gendered Spanish words: she replaces “-a” and “-o” endings with "-e," which creates a nearly "gender-free" text. The result retains the author's characteristic punchiness (an ode to artist Ana Mendieta is strikingly funny) and subtle profundity ("time is a ruined fountain, a prayer to the sea") while displaying dexterous formal intensity. Poems trickle down the page in thin columns like sweat or tears ("don’t cry, don’t cry! / someone shouted / they were masked / so who could tell who it was"). Other poems are packed with pop culture and historical references ("The March" includes text from "The Black Panthers Ten Point Program," "The Transfeminist Manifesto," and the Declaration of Independence, among others). An exciting hybrid text of conjoined poetic voices. — Diego Báe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1628638402262-AFQ5MG48LLQ1Q37TN02T/Screen+Shot+2021-08-10+at+4.33.02+PM.png News - The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women Features thousands of biographic and thematic essays on Jewish women around the world. Author, journalist, and activist Achy Obejas was born in Havana, Cuba, on June 28, 1956, and has lived in the United States since she was six years old. Obejas lives at the intersection of multiple identifies, but she has repeatedly asserted that her Cuban birth has been a central defining circumstance of her life. Indeed, she has described herself as being “endlessly Cuban,” along with the various other descriptors that she claims and that have been assigned to her over the years (Shapiro, Feal). While she is probably best known as female, Cuban/Cuban American, and queer, Obejas also has important connections with Jewishness and Jewish writing. These connections have increasingly informed her writing over the years and helped shape the multiple and multidirectional trajectories that she explores personally and professionally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1626217429368-RTOESXCMGEUZB1NYICMS/Screen+Shot+2021-07-13+at+4.02.17+PM.png News - Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Lecture Series In this public lecture, Achy Obejas, an acclaimed author and noted translator, reads from her work as part of her residency as the 2018 Woodrow Wilson visiting fellow at Linfield College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1618962654835-OBFHT9LC4H4Q21WVD2HZ/Screen+Shot+2021-04-20+at+4.49.22+PM.png News - Ms. Magazine: Some of the most exciting and necessary collections published late last year and forthcoming throughout 2021. Boomerang By Achy Obejas (@achylandia). Beacon Press. 160 pages. Out September 7. Activism, bilingualism, belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1616703487415-DOJUDKJKVB3EZ629OEOL/washPost.jpg News Who should translate Amanda Gorman’s work? That question is ricocheting around the translation industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1616030818301-06Y7RIZ14RWOX0NQ944Y/Screen+Shot+2021-03-17+at+6.25.18+PM.png News - Twenty-five judges in five categories will review submitted titles and select the five Winners of the 72nd National Book Awards Translated Literature panel: Jessie Chaffee, Sergio de la Pava, Madhu H. Kaza, Achy Obejas, Stephen Snyder (Chair) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1615927466775-J2MGZQE351HEV5JRAEJF/poetsorg.png News - poets.org In Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1608241562185-SWBAFAKJ9ZGZX3MRA1VW/Screen+Shot+2020-12-17+at+1.44.40+PM.png News - The Virus Has Stolen Your Face From Me By Riva Lehrer Ms. Lehrer is a visual artist and writer. As a portrait artist, all I can do now is reconstruct the mysteries of who you are under the mask. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1607980548010-LEQTUT1IRP4C26TPMJB7/international_women_s_day__achy_obejas_by_transtastic_d4s6n8d-fullview.jpg News - International Women's Day: Achy Obejas “With Obejas, that opened the door to Moraga and Anzaldua. There were other women like me and I took comfort in that because I didn't know anyone like me-gay and Latina.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1605913789957-LGARPEXS321G7GN0RSCJ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-20%2Bat%2B3.07.22%2BPM.jpg News - LITERATURE OF EXILE: CUBA IN THE FICTION OF CRISTINA GARCIA, ANA MENENDEZ, AND ACHY OBEJAS Identity is complicated and multi-faceted, as Achy Obejas well understands. A lesbian writer in a tradition often associated with machismo, her fiction skewers traditional Cuban gender roles and concepts of family. In her hilariously titled short story collection, We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? and her first novel Memory Mambo, Obejas describes her simultaneous exile from her Cuban homeland, and her alienation, as a gay person, from the Cuban American community. Her most recent collection, The Tower of the Antilles , interweaves stories of Cubans and Cuban Americans endlessly crossing borders and barriers, both politcal and sexual. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1601958224148-AOWB9NQFSNEREVQIOZN1/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-05%2Bat%2B9.12.52%2BPM.jpg News - World Literature Today https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1601957838097-5S2H4SD4692UYDHI3QUW/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-05%2Bat%2B8.48.20%2BPM.jpg News - The Queer Issue Achy has 3 poems in the most recent Hostos Review. {Starting on page 33} https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1591036614924-O3B7GM5SY1RULKQI4DBS/Screen+Shot+2020-06-01+at+11.34.37+AM.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1591036078236-P8WW1A9NKXJW8Y2X9OTB/Screen+Shot+2020-06-01+at+11.26.26+AM.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1591035384961-CYTU9666UVZGAFQT4XJP/Screen+Shot+2020-06-01+at+9.48.54+AM.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1591034918228-BUKOZXGYXKEV9U3TX5RN/Screen+Shot+2020-06-01+at+9.53.22+AM.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/571f52e9-e9f5-40c5-a8e5-193a03c72c64/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+12.13.20+PM.png News - NBC News Latino: Immigrant Identity, Lesbian Sexuality Intersect in The Stories of Achy Obejas In her recently release short story collection "The Tower of the Antilles," author Achy Obejas explores the complexities of Cuban American identity, lesbian sexuality and the ways these intersect. https://www.achyobejas.com/events daily 0.75 2022-07-21 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/mercy-street-reading-series monthly 0.5 2022-07-21 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-nico-vela-page monthly 0.5 2022-07-21 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/trans-poetics-translation-as-process-and-product monthly 0.5 2022-01-26 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/call-me-cassandra-an-evening-with-marcial-gala-anna-kushner-and-achy-obejas monthly 0.5 2022-01-14 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/z7fqyotbsltwwxv7x36m5ivosugm25 monthly 0.5 2021-11-16 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/poesa-sin-fin-online monthly 0.5 2021-11-16 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/miami-book-fair-in-conversation-pablo-medina-achy-obejas monthly 0.5 2021-11-16 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-en-conversacin-con-la-dra-mabel-cuesta monthly 0.5 2021-11-16 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-and-carolina-de-robertis-boomerang-the-president-and-the-frog monthly 0.5 2021-10-29 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/mercy-street-readings monthly 0.5 2021-09-24 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-and-phillip-b-williams monthly 0.5 2021-09-12 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-in-conversation-with-ana-merino monthly 0.5 2021-09-07 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/three-voices-three-worlds-litquake-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-09-07 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-with-carolina-de-robertis-boomerang monthly 0.5 2021-09-14 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-with-cristina-garca-boomerang-bumern monthly 0.5 2021-08-26 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-in-conversation-with-luis-rodriguez-discusses-boomerang-bumern-poetry-poesa monthly 0.5 2021-09-14 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-with-m-evelina-galang monthly 0.5 2021-08-26 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/pp-live-cheuse-center-panel-international-literature-culture monthly 0.5 2021-09-14 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/boomerang-bumern-an-evening-with-achy-obejas-and-richard-blanco monthly 0.5 2021-10-04 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/achy-obejas-in-conversation-with-daniel-borutzky monthly 0.5 2021-08-11 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/pp-live-dariel-suarez-the-playwrights-house-with-achy-obejas-by-politics-and-prose monthly 0.5 2021-06-28 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/casetalks-case-art-fund monthly 0.5 2021-06-04 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/zoom-talk-with-cristina-garcia monthly 0.5 2021-05-25 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/transversal-presents-transcreations-translation-and-creative-writing-confirmation monthly 0.5 2021-05-03 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/so-queer-and-so-caribbean monthly 0.5 2020-11-20 https://www.achyobejas.com/events/event-one-nxxpm monthly 0.5 2020-11-20 https://www.achyobejas.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-06-02 https://www.achyobejas.com/about daily 0.75 2025-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/080f3462-5b0b-445d-a805-93a126f8ea68/Achy+Obejas+Headshot+by+Irene+Young+HR.jpg About - Achy Obejas Achy Obejas is the author of the forthcoming The Boy Kingdom/El reino de los varones, a bilingual collection of prose poems that offers a meditation on queer motherhood and raising sons. She also authored Boomerang/Bumerán, a bilingual collection of poetry written in a mostly gender-free English and Spanish that addresses immigration, displacement, love and activism; the story collection The Tower of the Antilles, which was a PEN/Faulkner finalist, among other honors; and the novel Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. As a translator, Havana-born Achy has worked with Rita Indiana, Junot Díaz and Megan Maxwell, among others. She currently pens the West Coast renters column for the New York Times. A recipient of a USA Artists fellowship, an NEA and a Cintas fellowship, among other awards, she lives in the San Francisco Bay area. image by Irene Young https://www.achyobejas.com/boys-homepage daily 1.0 2025-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/e64d5ec2-c272-4bab-9064-ca838eeaa323/OBEJAS-TheBoyKingdom-cover_1+%281%29.jpg https://www.achyobejas.com/links daily 0.75 2025-04-10 https://www.achyobejas.com/work daily 0.75 2025-04-18 https://www.achyobejas.com/work/anthologies monthly 0.5 2021-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/d619d933-7e55-42e5-b053-3abf81e7df1f/Screen+Shot+2021-03-18+at+2.03.10+PM.png Work - Anthologies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/677da44a-37bd-45d2-847e-145582b045dc/Screen+Shot+2021-03-18+at+2.07.41+PM.png Work - Anthologies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/c45ca209-4630-495b-9a85-b2898933c47a/Screen+Shot+2021-03-18+at+2.10.42+PM.png Work - 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By Achy Obejas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1607980111818-TVRMZYFKL5H5SB61DBLI/assimilate.png Work - Journalism - Assimilate, then what? Two widely different accounts of the Dominican-American experience By Achy Obejas After respective fifteen-year breaks from adult fiction, two of the best-known US-based Dominican writers have returned with some of their finest work — mature, intense stories that focus on US immigrant life and yet couldn’t be more different. Not that the authors haven’t been busy during this period: Julia Alvarez has been writing young adult and children’s books, non-fiction and poetry, while Angie Cruz founded and still edits the literary journal Aster(ix). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1607979923570-Q1C7BVC1030Z2KSGTP9L/aLittleFidelArticle.png Work - Journalism - The Little Fidel in All of Us By Achy Obejas The headline scrolled through the corner of my computer screen sometime after 10 on Friday night. Fidel Castro had died. It was news I’d been waiting to hear my entire life, and yet I hesitated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1607978993115-CUSN63NQLH6RH8IM8I5E/assataShakur.png Work - Journalism - Why Cuba will never send Assata Shakur to the U.S. By ACHY OBEJAS In May 2013, on the 40th anniversary of her arrest, Assata Shakur was suddenly and inexplicably named to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, with an award of up to $2 million for her capture. She was the first woman ever put on that list, but she gained that notorious promotion at a time when she was doing little that could be conceived of as criminal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1607978699539-VP0FU3F44QCMHC8WTW12/anthonyBourdainArticle.png Work - Journalism - What Anthony Bourdain didn’t tell you about Cuban food By Achy Obejas Inevitably, when I say I’m going to Cuba, somebody says, “Mmm, yummy! I love Cuban food.” And after watching Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” season premiere episode on Cuba, you might be tempted to think something delicious awaits you on the island. But here’s the honest to God truth: Most food in Cuba is awful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1607978435763-3ZSNTLG8UK9FYDNLXGA8/Screen+Shot+2020-12-14+at+12.29.03+PM.png Work - Journalism - Homophobia By Achy Obejas Here's some of the testimony that aldermen heard--and gave--before voting on the gay rights ordinance. Don't laugh. It's not funny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1607978004314-W167TT22YJHWZXD6W4VC/Screen+Shot+2020-12-14+at+12.29.03+PM.png Work - Journalism - In Honor of Danny Sotomayor By Achy Obejas "Of course I know he's not here," said Rick Garcia as he stood outside the mayor's office on the fifth floor of City Hall. He was wearing a dapper black blazer, a CURE AIDS NOW button, and a new goatee. "But I'm going to go through with this anyway. I want to return my award; I need to return my award." https://www.achyobejas.com/work/people-bpgcw monthly 0.5 2020-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1581969867239-WJVVS14XDNN8O7MAO2EE/Screen+Shot+2020-02-17+at+12.04.08+PM.png Work - Prose The Tower Of the Antilles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582930690679-4AYIJDUCZ62AC63JPMU1/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+2.57.54+PM.png Work - Prose Ruins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582930611922-CRYUSL7BBQ6ECFZ4UI0P/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+2.56.15+PM.png Work - Prose Days Of Awe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1581970052172-XSAA56S2SJPGEPXFR6WX/Screen+Shot+2020-02-17+at+12.07.02+PM.png Work - Prose Memory Mambo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1581969619502-TW07SJSGMP0YN1DRZHJV/Screen+Shot+2020-02-17+at+11.56.48+AM.png Work - Prose We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1585785882184-MMT0ZYTQB4VBXWSY3NV1/Screen+Shot+2020-04-01+at+5.04.05+PM.png Work - Prose havana noir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582931594370-01D5ASIMUO4WVQT5GLPS/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.12.56+PM.png Work - Prose Immigrant Voices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1585785239376-UWRKQYFL9C4LQEH7JD0J/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.31.09+PM.png Work - Prose Take Us To A Better Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1585785239122-T30SZVTNB24XFY0DO8CC/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.25.43+PM.png Work - Prose The Garcia Boy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1585785239256-X2DR1A2371Y1Y457A8N3/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.44.39+PM.png Work - Prose Kimberle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1585785953288-MA9UCS5WHNH6BFI470FE/Screen+Shot+2020-04-01+at+5.03.40+PM.png Work - Prose Havana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/fde22d9b-dd69-49aa-944e-d2bcb3c45ed9/Screen+Shot+2021-03-18+at+4.39.17+PM.png Work - Prose https://www.achyobejas.com/work/interiors-c6r28 monthly 0.5 2020-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1581970576103-MTGXB7L1FDI8Y1PD2WPH/Screen+Shot+2020-02-17+at+12.15.57+PM.png Work - Translation The Black Jersey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582932313749-7HNUFUVCL3UL5J0D0ZY3/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.24.49+PM.png Work - Translation The Price Of Paradise https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1581970441405-IUD2VJP3DESVM6ZBPDBL/Screen+Shot+2020-02-17+at+12.13.43+PM.png Work - Translation Tentacle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582933310177-E0HGXSNCVUIOF4GWMT9S/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.41.32+PM.png Work - Translation Revolution Sunday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582933380720-0A7VUJKT2FI00JUTLAR8/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.42.43+PM.png Work - Translation Memory and Oblivion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582933553532-3ENBSA9DZLZRTA7SOY61/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.45.36+PM.png Work - Translation Papi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582933610388-VIPX0J6IANA3HHL0V1DB/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.46.30+PM.png Work - Translation La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582933690625-GRUXIKFHOQBGVKRESW1D/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.47.56+PM.png Work - Translation Everyone Leaves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1581970744847-S8WT5J6RWIULJ11QNHKG/Screen+Shot+2020-02-17+at+12.18.51+PM.png Work - Translation The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582932405908-RZG2TNMN67RGAXBH093P/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.26.32+PM.png Work - Translation One Hundred Bottles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1585786160391-VTP3ORPJGYI3O598NJN2/Screen+Shot+2020-04-01+at+5.08.44+PM.png Work - Translation Asi es como la pierdes https://www.achyobejas.com/work/poetry monthly 0.5 2021-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1582932149519-61FSLTJVEO0AVVATGQ01/Screen+Shot+2020-02-28+at+3.10.00+PM.png Work - Poetry This Is What Happened In Our Other Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/1585787001002-XANER1J4XZ84K9CEGCUA/Screen+Shot+2020-04-01+at+5.15.21+PM.png Work - Poetry Un Cuento Y Once Poemas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4aebf47fcd934d19d31294/02a7f5b4-78b0-4790-94d1-cb9559c267d4/boomerang.png Work - Poetry