Author Archives | Jessica Helen Lopez
Recently named one of 30 Poets in their 30’s to watch by MUZZLE magazine, Jessica Helen Lopez is a nationally recognized award-winning poetry slam champion, and holds the title of 2012 Women of the World (WOW) City of ABQ Champion. She’s also a member of the Macondo Foundation. Founded by Sandra Cisneros, it is an association of socially engaged writers united to advance creativity, foster generosity, and honor community. Her first collection of poetry, Always Messing With Them Boys (West End Press, 2011) made the Southwest Book of the Year reading list and was also awarded the Zia Book Award presented by NM Women Press. She is the founder of La Palabra – The Word is a Woman collective created for and by female writers and artisans. Please visit the website. Lopez is also a 2012 Ted Talk speaker and her talk, Spoken Word Poetry that Tells HERstory. Currently, Lopez is a top twenty finalist for the independent press Write Bloody book award 2013. You may find some of my Lopez’s work at these sites -- LaPalabra.abqnorthwest.com, thebakerypoetry.com, and asusjournal.org.
Weekly Poem: Cunt.Bomb.
the c is as insidious
as a paper cut
as pleasurable as a paper boat—
if you happen to know how to fold
one and let it ride
the u of it lies between your legs
look down lovingly
lucky you if you happen to have one...
Weekly Poetry: The Mother and The Daughter
30. July 2013
I haven’t written a poem in your likeness for some time.
I tried. I took the broom and beat the cobwebs.
Lit one hissing cigarette after hissing cigarette,
Let a dish fall to the floor, a porcelain scream.
I let the quiet shattering happen but could not eek it out.
Then I thought of this. You the young mother,
a knotted belt at your waist, slim and attractive
in photos. Your teeth gleaming and straight
like a string of pearls...
21. March 2014
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