Yael Valencia Aldana
@yaelwrites.bsky.social
Writer, Mom, Brooklynite-Barbadian transplanted to South Florida. Author of chapbook Alien(s). Full-length Poetry collection Black Mestiza forthcoming 2025. Founding editor of @PurpleInkPress
Insta @Yaelwrites https://linktr.ee/yaelwrites
Insta @Yaelwrites https://linktr.ee/yaelwrites
Online event with City Lights Booksellers
Screenshot Yael Valencia Aldana, in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley Register here! Yael Valencia Aldana in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley in an evening of discussion and poetry reading. City Lights and the University of Kentucky…
Screenshot Yael Valencia Aldana, in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley Register here! Yael Valencia Aldana in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley in an evening of discussion and poetry reading. City Lights and the University of Kentucky…
Online event with City Lights Booksellers
Screenshot Yael Valencia Aldana, in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley Register here! Yael Valencia Aldana in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley in an evening of discussion and poetry reading. City Lights and the University of Kentucky Press celebrate the publication of Black Mestiza: Poems by Yael Valencia AldanaPublished by The University Press of Kentucky (as part of the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series)
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February 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Online event with City Lights Booksellers
Screenshot Yael Valencia Aldana, in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley Register here! Yael Valencia Aldana in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley in an evening of discussion and poetry reading. City Lights and the University of Kentucky…
Screenshot Yael Valencia Aldana, in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley Register here! Yael Valencia Aldana in conversation with Jennifer Maritza McCauley in an evening of discussion and poetry reading. City Lights and the University of Kentucky…
It’s only 3 days away. Join me and Julie Marie Wade @juliemariewade in person or online for the launch of my poetry collection Black Mestiza.
#blackpoetry #latinxpoetry #indegenouspoetry #poetrycommunity #poetryevent
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#blackpoetry #latinxpoetry #indegenouspoetry #poetrycommunity #poetryevent
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An Afternoon with Yael Valencia Aldana and Julie Marie Wade
Locally-owned, independent neighborhood bookstore
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January 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It’s only 3 days away. Join me and Julie Marie Wade @juliemariewade in person or online for the launch of my poetry collection Black Mestiza.
#blackpoetry #latinxpoetry #indegenouspoetry #poetrycommunity #poetryevent
www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-aft...
#blackpoetry #latinxpoetry #indegenouspoetry #poetrycommunity #poetryevent
www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-aft...
Gracias, Jennita for your beautiful words. It’s a gift to find ourselves in each other. As artists, we continually reach for each other. Thank you for your energy and this wonderful boost for my labor of love ready for everyone’s hot hands.
#blackpoetry #latinxpoetry #indigenouspoetry
#blackpoetry #latinxpoetry #indigenouspoetry
January 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Gracias, Jennita for your beautiful words. It’s a gift to find ourselves in each other. As artists, we continually reach for each other. Thank you for your energy and this wonderful boost for my labor of love ready for everyone’s hot hands.
#blackpoetry #latinxpoetry #indigenouspoetry
#blackpoetry #latinxpoetry #indigenouspoetry
Lauch Event for Black Mestiza
Join us at Books & Books for the launch of Black Mestiza
Join us at Books & Books for the launch of Black Mestiza
Lauch Event for Black Mestiza
Join us at Books & Books for the launch of Black Mestiza
yaelaldana.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Lauch Event for Black Mestiza
Join us at Books & Books for the launch of Black Mestiza
Join us at Books & Books for the launch of Black Mestiza
Black Mestiza is Available
My poetry book, Black Mestiza, is available!!! Yay! Check it out here or any place you get books.
My poetry book, Black Mestiza, is available!!! Yay! Check it out here or any place you get books.
Black Mestiza is Available
My poetry book, Black Mestiza, is available!!! Yay! Check it out here or any place you get books.
yaelaldana.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Black Mestiza is Available
My poetry book, Black Mestiza, is available!!! Yay! Check it out here or any place you get books.
My poetry book, Black Mestiza, is available!!! Yay! Check it out here or any place you get books.
The poem Hammerhead from my poetry collection Black Mestiza. Counting down to my launch event at Books and Books at Coral Gables and live streamed on YouTube bit.ly/3Cjxc1M #poetrycommunity #readingpoetry #blackpoetry #indigenouspoetry #latinxpoetry
January 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The poem Hammerhead from my poetry collection Black Mestiza. Counting down to my launch event at Books and Books at Coral Gables and live streamed on YouTube bit.ly/3Cjxc1M #poetrycommunity #readingpoetry #blackpoetry #indigenouspoetry #latinxpoetry
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Looking for the perfect feminist gothic novel?🐦⬛🖤✨
The Naming of the Birds by @paraicodonnell.bsky.social is out now!
More: tinhouse.com/book/the-nam...
The Naming of the Birds by @paraicodonnell.bsky.social is out now!
More: tinhouse.com/book/the-nam...
January 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Looking for the perfect feminist gothic novel?🐦⬛🖤✨
The Naming of the Birds by @paraicodonnell.bsky.social is out now!
More: tinhouse.com/book/the-nam...
The Naming of the Birds by @paraicodonnell.bsky.social is out now!
More: tinhouse.com/book/the-nam...
It’s pub day for my first book! Please celebrate with me yay!!!!!!!!!!! buff.ly/3KRZ8uk
January 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
It’s pub day for my first book! Please celebrate with me yay!!!!!!!!!!! buff.ly/3KRZ8uk
Here she is! It is so surreal to hold this book in my hands. It officially publishes on Tuesday, January 21, but it is shipping now. How fun that there is a hardcover version. I am also so proud that the book is listed under a Black/ Latinx/ indigenous. I choose all parts of myself.
January 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Here she is! It is so surreal to hold this book in my hands. It officially publishes on Tuesday, January 21, but it is shipping now. How fun that there is a hardcover version. I am also so proud that the book is listed under a Black/ Latinx/ indigenous. I choose all parts of myself.
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Don't delay, get your Summer Workshop application in today! In addition to our General Scholarships, we offer many community-focused awards such as the Arab American Scholarship and offer application fee waivers for those who need them. The deadline to apply is February 2nd!
January 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Don't delay, get your Summer Workshop application in today! In addition to our General Scholarships, we offer many community-focused awards such as the Arab American Scholarship and offer application fee waivers for those who need them. The deadline to apply is February 2nd!
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48 hours left to prove you are the Harry Crews of the modern age
January 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
48 hours left to prove you are the Harry Crews of the modern age
I am so honored to be in this volume. The best part of this is that as a contributor, I can nominate other writers in perpetuity. When I received need I had won, I was confused. It turned out a previous winner nominated me. IlI feel blessed and humbled and I am eager to play it forward. 💕🌺💯🙏🏽
December 3, 2024 at 9:59 PM
I am so honored to be in this volume. The best part of this is that as a contributor, I can nominate other writers in perpetuity. When I received need I had won, I was confused. It turned out a previous winner nominated me. IlI feel blessed and humbled and I am eager to play it forward. 💕🌺💯🙏🏽
Wooo hooo!!! I’m in this one!
Pushcart Prize XLIX is now arriving at your bookseller. 71 brilliant stories, poems and essays from 54 presses. [A reminder to small press editors: your nominations for PP 50
are due by a December 1 postmark. Consult our website for details.]
are due by a December 1 postmark. Consult our website for details.]
November 15, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Wooo hooo!!! I’m in this one!
My Interview with journalist and poet Taylor Dibbert is live on Medium. Thank you so much Taylor! taylordibbert.medium.com/yael-valenci...
August 10, 2024 at 4:33 PM
My Interview with journalist and poet Taylor Dibbert is live on Medium. Thank you so much Taylor! taylordibbert.medium.com/yael-valenci...
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Thanks to Android Press's Justine Norton-Kertson for their enthusiasm for THE JAGUAR MASK! "A new novel for the solarpunk revolution! DeLuca's The Jaguar Mask is a page-turner that takes off on page one and doesn't slow down." The book is available on Netgalley for only 4 more days!
March 27, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Thanks to Android Press's Justine Norton-Kertson for their enthusiasm for THE JAGUAR MASK! "A new novel for the solarpunk revolution! DeLuca's The Jaguar Mask is a page-turner that takes off on page one and doesn't slow down." The book is available on Netgalley for only 4 more days!
Ya Girl is on The Wee Sparrow Podcast. Talking about my Chapbook Alien(s). This is the first time I was asked about the inspiration being a lot of my poems 😬
theweesparrowpoetrypress.substack.com/p/episode-3-...
theweesparrowpoetrypress.substack.com/p/episode-3-...
December 26, 2023 at 6:29 PM
Ya Girl is on The Wee Sparrow Podcast. Talking about my Chapbook Alien(s). This is the first time I was asked about the inspiration being a lot of my poems 😬
theweesparrowpoetrypress.substack.com/p/episode-3-...
theweesparrowpoetrypress.substack.com/p/episode-3-...
Art makes the world go around!
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Subversion by Miriam Sweeney
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Subversion by Miriam Sweeney
November 25, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Art makes the world go around!
Repost from @notre.arte
Subversion by Miriam Sweeney
Repost from @notre.arte
Subversion by Miriam Sweeney
Save the date! Please join me for the Zoom launch of the chapbook Alien(s) with these amazing readers. Including Richard Blanco, Nicole Tallman, Clayre Benzadón, Julie Marie Wade Lynne Barrett, on Sunday, October 15th, 3 pm Eastern, noon Pacific time. Register here bit.ly/45khhJ3
October 10, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Save the date! Please join me for the Zoom launch of the chapbook Alien(s) with these amazing readers. Including Richard Blanco, Nicole Tallman, Clayre Benzadón, Julie Marie Wade Lynne Barrett, on Sunday, October 15th, 3 pm Eastern, noon Pacific time. Register here bit.ly/45khhJ3
I am excited to announce that my full-length poetry collection, Black Mestiza, has won the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series in Poetry. Thank you so much to the series editor, Lisa Williams, who saw beauty and promise in my book. Black Mestiza is forthcoming in 2025.
October 8, 2023 at 7:55 PM
I am excited to announce that my full-length poetry collection, Black Mestiza, has won the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series in Poetry. Thank you so much to the series editor, Lisa Williams, who saw beauty and promise in my book. Black Mestiza is forthcoming in 2025.
I thought I would post over where and see. Happening in a few hours.
Join host Siân Killingsworth for a visual reading with featured poets: Koss, Linda Michel-Cassidy, and Yael Valencia Aldana this Sunday at 3 PM Pacific (6pm Eastern). Register to attend! linktr.ee/yaelwrites
Join host Siân Killingsworth for a visual reading with featured poets: Koss, Linda Michel-Cassidy, and Yael Valencia Aldana this Sunday at 3 PM Pacific (6pm Eastern). Register to attend! linktr.ee/yaelwrites
October 8, 2023 at 7:53 PM
I thought I would post over where and see. Happening in a few hours.
Join host Siân Killingsworth for a visual reading with featured poets: Koss, Linda Michel-Cassidy, and Yael Valencia Aldana this Sunday at 3 PM Pacific (6pm Eastern). Register to attend! linktr.ee/yaelwrites
Join host Siân Killingsworth for a visual reading with featured poets: Koss, Linda Michel-Cassidy, and Yael Valencia Aldana this Sunday at 3 PM Pacific (6pm Eastern). Register to attend! linktr.ee/yaelwrites
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As the weather gets cooler and spooky season approaches, don’t forget to get that costume ready.
September 16, 2023 at 1:05 PM
As the weather gets cooler and spooky season approaches, don’t forget to get that costume ready.
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My department at Emerson is hiring for two TT creative writing positions this year, and two literature positions as well. emerson.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Emerso...
September 16, 2023 at 5:36 PM
My department at Emerson is hiring for two TT creative writing positions this year, and two literature positions as well. emerson.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Emerso...
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Many! But top of my mind: @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social @antiheroinchic.bsky.social @epistemiclit.bsky.social @tbq.bsky.social @publishedbyjake.bsky.social @janusliterary.bsky.social @bulbculture.bsky.social
September 14, 2023 at 7:08 AM