Nelly Rosario, Author at Aster(ix) Journal

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.