Meditations + Verse

“Mother, with your rebozo of cloud / wrapped around your shoulders in tatters, / hear me, my candles are lit.” Asking Mother Earth for forgiveness, poet Ruth Nakamura laments the harm humans have caused the planet.

A grounding practice and ceremony of song from Xicana Indígena climate-justice organizer Niria Alicia. With audio.

Poet Nadine Antoinette Maestas reimagines La Llorona as a protector of water, mourning the poisoning of rivers. Retablo by Rebecca Artemisa.

Poet Salem Islas-Madlo claims her power as the embodiment of the sacred directions, the elements, and other life on earth. With audio.

Dar a luz—to give birth: A poet shares her experience and ceremony through verse.

A meditative poem celebrating the blessing of dawn.

Poet Donato Martinez shares two poems about his Indigenous mother.

How does it feel to not fit neatly into any one category? Poet and Musician DeAnna Avis shares her experience through verse.

SC Moreno-Denton shares a meditative poem for those who swim where identities converge.

Performance poet Xolayruca shares that healing intergenerational trauma requires self-love. Listen to her powerful testimonio in verse.

Art and verse that invites ancestral connection.