X nath Caraza's first book-length collection Conjuro(Spellbound), with introduction by Fred Arroyo, is published by Mammoth Publications, a Native-owned literary press. In this tri-lingual text, Caraza combines Spanish, English, and Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs) to create a continuous spell of verse. Caraza's writing derives from her awareness of Indigenous thought: words are tangible objects, not abstractions, and capable of influencing physical reality's web of interactions. The poet's connection to her Indigenous and Mexican heritage energizes her meditations and proclamations, which...

Xanath Caraza's first book-length collection Conjuro: Poems, with introduction by Fred Arroyo, is published by Mammoth Publications, a Native-owned literary press. In this tri-lingual text, Caraza combines Spanish, English, and Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs) to create a continuous spell of verse. Caraza's writing derives from her awareness of Indigenous thought: words are tangible objects, not abstractions; they are capable of influencing physical reality's web of interactions. The poet's connection to her Indigenous and Mexican heritage energizes her verse. This debut collection...

Noche de colibries: Ekphrastic Poems by Xanath Caraza and published by Pandora lobo estepario Productions press is a bilingual chapbook, Spanish and English. Noche de colibries: Ekphrastic Poems is synonymous with painting with words that which emerges from the center of a woman, poet. Polychromatic rhythms are expertly mixed throughout the pages of this book. Images accompany each poem which celebrates each image. This book goes beyond description to create a poem, a story, yet possessing rediscovery in each of them. Caraza, as previously demonstrated, is a painter-poet where each verse...

Xanath Caraza's second full-length collection of verse, Silabas de viento / Syllables of Wind, establishes her as a premiere author of both Spanish and English verse. Her global reach is always rooted in her Indigenous American heritage. A native of Xalapa and resident of Kansas City, Caraza gives testimony to the powerful transformative experience of global identity. "From Olmeca land to Bilbao, Andalusia, Morocco, Bosnia, and back to the Midwest, Xanath Caraza's words flow like chants calling us back to the mystery and majesty of our ancient ones who surround us in the physical world. Her...

In Corazon Pintado: Ekphrastic Poems (2015), traveler, educator, poet and short story writer Xanath Caraza conjures up a collection of ekphrastic poems that summon both the indigenous and African roots of Mexico and take the reader through a trip of visual and rhythmic narratives that descend "into the heart of things." Pandora lobo estepario Production Press has decided to publish the second edition of Caraza's, Corazon Pintado: Ekphrastic Poems (2015). This second edition is revised, augmented, and has a foreword by Nuno Judice. The chapbook is a bilingual edition; most of the translations...