“I learned to sing from a lineage of silences,
of people whispering, as if their voices didn’t matter,
or learning to stay quiet and submissive
to keep the peace.”
-Keishla Rivera-López, from “Song and Memory”
Forthcoming
Keishla’s poetry chapbook Craving Home will be published in 2027 with Abode Press.
Recent Publications
- Poetry:
- “Diaspora Dream,” The Acentos Review, August 2025
- “El Barrio Mio,” The Newarker, May 2025
- “Mofongo, A Sensory Memory,”Decolonial Passage, Jan 2021
- “Ode to Mami’s Kitchen,”The Newarker, April 2021
- “Ode to Newark,”Decolonial Passage, July 2021
- “Rethinking Language,”The Newarker, July 2021
- Fiction:
- “The Watcher,” Label Me Latina/o Journal, Spring 2026
- “Wanting More,” The Journal of Latina Feminist Criticism, April 2021
- Public Writing/Media:
- “A Call to Remember: Puerto Rican Aesthetics and Caribbean Diasporic History in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance,” CENTRO RicanWritings Blog, May 2026
- “A Reflection on Teaching and Impact,” Princeton University Admissions Site Blog, October 2023 https://admission.princeton.edu/blogs/brief-reflection-teaching-impact-and-latinx-representation
