Sheila Maldonado

Sheila Maldonado

Sheila Maldonado is the author of the newly released poetry collection THAT'S WHAT YOU GET (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2021) as well as ONE-BEDROOM SOLO (Fly by Night Press / A Gathering of the Tribes, 2011), her debut poetry collection. She is a CantoMundo fellow and a Creative Capital awardee as part of desveladas, a visual writing collective. She teaches English for the City University of New York. She was born in Brooklyn, raised in Coney Island, the daughter of Armando and Vilma of El Progreso, Yoro, Honduras. She lives in El Alto Manhattan.

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temporary statement

  I am not poignant. I am losing nuance. I beat you over the head.…

Microeditorial: #fuckICE

Last Thursday afternoon ICE pulled a student of mine off th BX12 select bus and…

abandoning the murder capital
(san pedro sula, honduras, 2013)

  retiring in the murder capital of the world adjust volume; some sound.   abandoning…

future tense (minor tribe: 2012)

like the family I need documents to stay here lose them and I lose my…