A gruesome unskilled depiction, But nonetheless mine. I have drawn The great poet as if poured in marble, Languid and...
Emma Trelles
Saturday Afternoon Revival
The world is falling and the rain is calm. Gingko leaves disperse, petals blown and gone To earth. I am reading a book...
Somewhere, a Watercolor
Mornings I raise fists againstThe clock, my digital bridges, myself.Here there is an inch of greenPasture to enter,...
Emma Trelles is a Cuban-American poet, editor, and author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. She is the 9th Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California (2021-23) and the recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council (2023-24). In 2022, she was named one of 22 Poet Laureate Fellows across the country by the Academy of American Poets for her creative and community work. A current CantoMundo Fellow, her writing and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review; Poetry Magazine, the Academy’s Poem-A-Day series, the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly; Best American Poetry; and others. She is series editor of the Alta California Chapbook Prize, open to Latine poets in the U.S. and published in bilingual editions by Gunpowder Press.