Published by Palooka Press…
Evelyn María Anderson is a muralist and poet who holds a BA in Arts Practice from Stanford University. Raised in a bicultural home, her mother’s family is from Honduras, while her father grew up in Illinois. By following intergenerational stories of familial love, abuse, and intimacy, Evelyn María Anderson’s poly-vocal chapbook, Sweetfires, seeks to elucidate the broader geopolitical relationship between Central America and the United States. Sweetfires is the recipient of the Palooka Press Chapbook Award.
To order a copy, please visit Palooka Press or email evelynanderson.art@gmail.com.
Some kinds of heat are born out of love.
Some kinds of flames grow strong in the water.
Neck-deep in your ancestors, you pray in the river.
Holding your daughters’ hands, you say,
This is where you’ll find me if they
can’t locate the body.
They’ve killed so many other guardians of water.
How to prepare when you know they are coming?