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José B. González

José B. González is the author of the poetry collections Toys Made of Rock and When Love Was Reels, and the co-editor of Latino Boom: An Anthology of US Latino Literature. A Pushcart Prize Winner, he has been anthologized in the Norton Introduction to Literature and has published his work in such journals as Boston Review, Callaloo, Huizache, Pilgrimage, and Connecticut River Review. His third poetry collection, Tongue Wrapped in Twine, from which the two poems in this issue appear, will be published by FlowerSong Press in 2025. A Fulbright Scholar, he is the founder and editor of LatinoStories.com.

By José B. González

Letters From El Salvador

by José B. González

The words were easy to write, even with young hands, even the letters to my father about the hurricane or the collapse of a house the trapping of bodies. the legs swinging from a tree. They were about yesterdays, the what fell, the what struck, the who died. My father said it was the reading

Spring 2025

The School with Uncles

by José B. González

We went to a school where most of our uncles became our fathers, the farther your father went, the more uncles you had. We were the fortunate ones, the boys who had uncles who helped us strum and string and sing along lonely guitars. Others weren’t so fortunate, they were the ones who forgot the

Spring 2025

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