“1. the uptown 6 screeches as the mango poem lodged in my throat beckons to its brother…” Read “but when,” a poem by Czaerra Galicinao Ucol, in @beestung.bsky.social this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: beestungmag.com/issue05/one-...

We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

The speakers of QUERIDA navigate “memory frayed by the generational trauma of migration, coloniality, and the exploitative labor of late-stage capitalism.” Read Nathan Xavier Osorio's poetry collection this #HispanicHeritageMonth! @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...

We’re so excited that @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social, Joyce Chen, and @emilynemens.bsky.social are the magazine judges for the 2026 #FirecrackerAwards! Learn more and submit to one of our two magazine categories—best debut or general excellence—by November 14: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

Dino Enrique Piacentini’s story “Mexican Goodbyes” is featured in Issue 325 of @onestorymag.bsky.social and on our reading list for #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth! Order the issue here: one-story.com/product/mexi...

A “literary-architectural hybrid project,” Jan M. Padios’s 36 DWELLINGS “sketches fault lines within a Filipinx family, linking intimate harm to the forces of colonialism and labor migration.” From Burrow Press and our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth list: burrowpress.com/dwell/

@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth playlist features six poems by poets recently published in the journal, including Hannah Keziah Agustin, Karla Myn Khine, Akira Ritos, Elise Thi Tran, and MT Vallarta! Listen to it here: shopoetryjournal.com/filipino-ame...

Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s MY PERFECT COGNATE “interrogates the connections and contrasts at the sharp edges of her in-betweens.” Read this new poetry collection, out now from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social and featured on our #HispanicHeritageMonth list: www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/my-per...

Writing & Art from the Farmworker Community—a 2024 portfolio from @commonmag.bsky.social—features fiction by Helena María Viramontes, nonfiction by Nora Rodriguez Camagna, poetry by Miguel M. Morales, and more! Read it this #HispanicHeritageMonth: www.thecommononline.org/issues/issue...

“You’re sitting in the back of the car en route to the outlet malls a few towns over. In front of you is a GameBoy Color.” Read Lyn Rafil's “‘Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?’: A Walkthrough" in @anmlymag.bsky.social! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth anmly.org/ap37/lyn-raf...

Read a Kaya Press novel this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Set in 1970s Honolulu, R. Zamora Linmark's ROLLING THE R’S “animates the hilarious, disturbing, and chaotic misadventures of a group of Filipino, Vietnamese, Okinawan, and haole fifth graders.” kaya.com/books/rollin...

“A painful amount of guilt has riddled my body for years.” Read “In My Own Skin” by Camille Espiritu, published by Wellspringwords, this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: www.wellspringwords.love/the-descent/...

Kimberly Vargas Agnese’s poetry “invites readers to ponder: What rights ought to be afforded to the people, creatures, and landscapes that comprise the world in which we live?” Order KADUPUL FLOWER from @greenwriterspress.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth greenwriterspress.com/book/kadupul...

MANILA NOIR (@akashicbooks.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! According to Publishers Weekly, this anthology “includes a liberal dose of the gothic and supernatural, with disappearance and loss being constants.” www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/mani...

In THIRD WINTER IN OUR SECOND COUNTRY, Andres Rojas “captures the essence of the experience of settling into a new land, in all its strangeness and sometimes, ridiculousness.” Read this poetry collection from @triohousepress.org! #HispanicHeritageMonth triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/thi...

“do not hold honey in our home like that. sweet-hold, i tear my jaw from the window. there’s a spasm between your lips.” Read “idiosyncratic kitchen,” one of two poems by Turi Sioson in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social, for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Giancarlo Huapaya’s poetry collection [GAMEROVER]—translated by Ryan Greene—charts “the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents’ bodies and complicated habits.” Order your copy from @deepvellum.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth store.deepvellum.org/products/gam...

Thank you to Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) for including Babaylan in your 2025 reading list! 📚Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, everyone. Find your next read: https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-filipino-american-history-month-2025/#FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth

Read Eileen R. Tabios’s BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR (Marsh Hawk Press) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! According to E. San Juan, Jr., this collection of poetry and prose “weaves the semiotic subtleties of icon, index, and symbol into epiphanies.” www.ipgbook.com/because-i-lo...

BANANA [ ] is on our reading list for #HispanicHeritageMonth! Published by @upittpress.bsky.social, Paul Hlava Ceballos’s poems “reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits.” upittpress.org/books/978082...

Grace Talusan’s THE BODY PAPERS (Restless Books) is on our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth reading list! Talusan’s memoir “powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and childhood abuse.” restlessbooks.org/bookstore/th...

“Here is today’s reality in all its viciousness mixed with a supreme, kind, hilarious truth.” —Tupelo Hassman Stephen D. Gutierrez's CAPTAIN CHICANO DRAWS A LINE IN THE AMERICAN SAND (@utampapress.bsky.social) is on our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list: utampapress.org/product/capt...

Submit lit mags and fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction books by November 14! Learn more about the #FirecrackerAwards: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

“We’re outside the Time Temple waiting for a fourth to join our party when we meet NotButter. He’s a Level 67 Shadower, which is a good fit for our party.” Read Paula Mirando's “Maple Boyfriend” in @southeastreview.bsky.social! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...

Warm congratulations to CLMP members @openletterbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, @archipelagobooks.bsky.social, @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social, @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social, and Restless Books for being shortlisted!

According to Rachael Crosbie, this poetry collection using English, Tagalog, and Cebuano “commands language with a blend of love and sorrow.” Read MOHILAK by Keana Aguila Labra, from @fahmidangroup.bsky.social and our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth reading list: www.fahmidan.net/store

“My father was a regular listener of Jaime Licauco’s ‘Inner Mind on Radio,’ which aired in the evenings when I was growing up in the Philippines.” Read Monica Macansantos's “My Father and W. B. Yeats” in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Writers, submission periods are closing soon at thirteen indie presses and lit mags! These deadlines are coming up between October 10 and October 22. Learn more and submit now: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

THE MANY DEATHS OF INOCENCIO RODRIGUEZ by Iliana Rocha is on our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list! This @tupelopress.bsky.social collection “chronicles an obsession with the 1971 unsolved murder of Rocha’s grandfather while interrogating the true crime genre.” www.tupelopress.org/product/the-...

Read BABYLAN, edited by Nick Carbó and Eileen R. Tabios, this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! This anthology of Filipina and Filipina American writers from Aunt Lute Books features poetry and prose by Gina Apostol, Lilledeshan Bose, Shirley Ancheta, and more: www.auntlute.com/babaylan

ALBUM OF FENCES (Cardboard House Press) is on our reading list this #HispanicHeritageMonth! Omar Pimienta’s poetry collection “documents what living on either side of a militarized border does to a community, how it distorts, breeding suspicion and lies.” cardboardhousepress.org/the-album-of...

In FIRST, Lianne Cruz shares “the heartfelt, and often unplanned, moments of pregnancy and motherhood.” This @readfuriously.bsky.social collection based on Cruz’s webcomics is on our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth reading list: readfuriously.com/products/first

We're thrilled to announce that applications are open for the fifth annual Constellation Award, given to honor an independent literary press that champions the writing of people of color. Learn more and submit by November 7! www.clmp.org/constellatio...

Reyes Ramirez’s collection “breaks open notions of destiny, in humorous and devastating ways, to reimagine the past and present a new future where lack transforms to abundance.” Read EL REY OF GOLD TEETH (@hubcitypress.bsky.social) this #HispanicHeritageMonth! www.hubcity.org/books/poetry...

Mānoa’s ALWAYS AGAIN: NEW WORK FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND PHILIPPINE DIASPORAS is “a living record of the historical forces and contemporary concerns that have shaped the Philippines and its diasporas.” Order it here! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/always...

Don’t miss Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and Felicia Zamora discussing their respective new poetry collections, COWBOY PARK and INTERSTITIAL ARCHAEOLOGY! Read their conversation in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social this #HispanicHeritageMonth: hopkinsreview.com/features/new...

According to Claudia Keelan, Ronaldo V. Wilson’s collection “is a warning to anyone tempted to believe that in objectification lies freedom.” Read POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT (published by @futurepoem.bsky.social) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! www.futurepoem.com/books/poems-...

The speaker in Esteban Rodríguez’s poems “seeks refuge in undoing youthful lamentations of wielding English as a weapon to reclaim his diasporic lineage.” Read THE LOST NOSTALGIAS (@cavankerrypress.bsky.social) this #HispanicHeritageMonth! cavankerrypress.org/products/the...

Be sure to read Issue 6 of Slant’d this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! This issue exploring the theme of homecoming features a set of poems by I. Buenaventura and much more: www.slantd.com/product/issu...

Paquito D’Rivera’s LETTERS TO YEYITO is on our #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth reading list! This memoir, published by Restless Books, is “a fascinating tour of a life lived in music, and a useful guidebook for aspiring artists everywhere.” restlessbooks.org/bookstore/le...

In PROOF OF STAKE: AN ELEGY, Charles Valle “carries his lost loved one close against his chest as he soars through centuries, continents, climates, colonialisms.” —Joyelle McSweeney @fonografeditions.bsky.social poetry for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: fonografeditions.com/catalog/f0no...

Dear Kabunian, I love you even though you gave your buhay to our bodies, even though you shaped us from the soup… —Hari Alluri’s “Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome” in @adimagazine.bsky.social #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/let...

In this debut collection, Diana Rojas’s “characters grapple with their self-perception as they consider what they’re supposed to be and who they want to be.” Read LITANY OF SAINTS: A TRIPTYCH from @artepublico.bsky.social this #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth: artepublicopress.com/product/lita...

In RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP (@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social) “we meet fantastical beings—by turns charming and nightmarish—who, when examined unsparingly, turn out to be versions of ourselves.” —Luis H. Francia Read Marianne Villanueva’s stories for #FAHM! www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/resid...

Ignacio Lopez’s monologue “is at once a coming-of-age story, a horror story, and a highly theatrical experiment in radical empathy.” SEVERED, published by 53rd State Press, is on our reading list for #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth! 53rdstatepress.org/Lopez-Severed

Kalehua Kim’s MELE (@triohousepress.org) is on our reading list for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! This debut poetry collection “evokes modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of family and self.” triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

According to Hilary Sun, Ina Cariño's FEAST reminds readers that “to be eaten does not have to be othering; it can be a way of knowing and understanding.” Read a poetry collection from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/fe...

“In August of 2022, I rode the purple line from Evanston into Chicago. I was going to Madison and Halsted.” Read Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s essay, “Goodbye to the Chicago Intersection Where I Was Reborn,” in @offassignment.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth www.offassignment.com/gttp/ingrid-...

In Rhoni Blankenhorn’s debut poetry collection, “daily life becomes a provocation into nonlinearity, sexuality, family history, and multiracial selfhood.” Read ROOMS FOR THE DEAD AND THE NOT YET (@triohousepress.org) for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

“Joe Biden and Donald Trump separately visited Texas on the same day to present their respective plans for cracking down on border crossing.” —Gabriel Antonio Solis’s “Borderlands, Betrayed,” in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social & our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list: www.thedriftmag.com/borderlands-...