Nelly Rosario

Nelly Rosario

Nelly Rosario is author of Song of the Water Saints, winner of a PEN/Open Book Award. Her work appears in various anthologies and journals, including Callaloo, Meridians, Review, Chess Life, and el diario/La Prensa. She conducts research for the MIT Black History Project and collaborates on desveladas, a writing collective engaged in visual conversations across the Americas and winner of a Creative Capital Award in Literature. Rosario is Associate Professor at Williams College.

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Combination of Cecilia Vicuña’s “Amaranta” (1972) and photo by Zane Lindsay
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With each impulse, the current your heart siphons from the phone line will slowly render the vision of Self in vibrant color. Your grey tongue will begin to blush, too. When it swells with the metal-sweet taste of saffron, you will know that this vision of Self is real enough to power its own flow.

Song of Morrison: A Eulogy

Once upon this time, Toni, we resented the art of writing eulogies. It’s been a…

How to Date a Thugboy, artboy, nerdboy or papichulo: remix of a Junot Diaz theme

Wait for your sister and your father to leave the apartment. You’ve already told them…

Judging A Cover By His Books: An Annotated Bibliography of the Intellectual Macdaddy

This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive overview of the titles most prominently displayed on the…

Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Microeditorial: Hemingway’s Not-So-Strange Tribe As Told by Annet Sánchez

  In May of 2015, Nelly Rosario traveled to Cuba through MEDICC, a non-profit working to enhance…

Microeditorial: Thank you, Monica: A Belated Elegy

What’s good in the higher hood, Monica? It’s me, Cabbage Patch, your supervisor from summer…