Raquel Salas Rivera

Raquel Salas Rivera

Raquel Salas Rivera was born in Puerto Rico and currently lives in Philadelphia. Rivera is the author of six chapbooks and four collections of poetry: Caneca de anhelo turbios (Editora Educación Emergente, 2011), tierra intermitente (Ediciones Alayubia, 2017), both published in Puerto Rico; lo terciario/the tertiary (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018), which was nominated for the National Book Award; and x/ex/exis (poemas para la nación) (Bilingual Press/ Editorial Bilingüe, forthcoming 2019), winner of the first Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Of their work, informed by Leftist politics as well as Spanish language literary traditions, Rivera has said, “There are poems like solidarities. This is the most ideal case. It makes people reach out to me, like after a reading, when I write something and other Boricuas are like, ‘This poem about the debt made me cry.’ When I see them cry, and they're thanking me for writing it, that's not just a poem. It becomes larger than itself. It becomes an interaction in the world, which is doing a kind of political work.”

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