News — LatinX

Celebrating Latinx Authors 

15 books by Latinx authors that should be on your radar. 

This month’s Night Worms package is celebrating Latinx authors. We received two beautiful books by Latinx authors and this leads me to want more.

I decided to go around and ask readers who their favorite Latinx authors were. When I asked around most readers drew a blank or only had a few names to give. I was also guilty of only knowing a few Latinx authors myself so I set out to diversify my shelves...

The Other Side of Sylvia Plath

By Adrian Ernesto Cepeda

While I was crafting the cento poems that became La Belle Ajar, I felt like I was communing with Sylvia Plath. As I wrote in the afterword of my poetry collection. Sylvia Plath once said, “I want someone to mouth me.” When I started this cento project that is what I did. For hours at a time, I could feel Sylvia’s timelessly evocative voice speaking to me in...