Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

The poems in Santa Tarantula grant an urgent and haunting voice to the voiceless, explore ancient narratives, delve into Cuban history and identity, and confront trauma and violence.Jordan Pérez explores...

"In Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes meditates on migration, and the American dream. He reminds us that Blackness is everywhere, persevering against erasure and violence. This collection is a satisfying and essential second book that leaves us excited for all that is to come from this poet." —Yesenia Montilla author of The Pink Box

Invoking individual and collective ghosts inherited across diverse geographies, Rhodes' poetry collection queers the space between past, present, and future through generations of violence, war, and survival.

My Kill Adore Him interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones.

Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday, Guerrero’s poems explore not just the right, but the ability to speak and fight for oneself, one's children, one's community.

Of Form & Gather, the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize winner by Felicia Zamora, is concerned with the questions of the self and humanity.

Pity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in...

Furious Dusk is a collection of poetry that traces a son’s efforts to fulfill his father’s expectations and reflect on what it means to be a man.

A winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Tropicalia is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles about the city of Miami.

Gabriel Gomez completed his first collection of poems on language and landscape, voice and memory, during a two-month emergency residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute after his home in New Orleans was destroyed.