Reviews of  Naomi Ayala's 

Wild Animals on the Moon..

PUBLISHING HISTORY 

(Literary)

Books:

Wild Animals on the Moon (Curbstone Press, 1997).

Anthologies:

Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination.  (Curbstone Press, 2000. Expanded edition.) 

Freedombook: An Anthology of Works for Freedom (ProLIBERTAD Amnesty Campaign to Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, 1999).

El Coro: A Chorus of Latino/a Poets  (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997).

Seeds of Struggle, Songs of Hope: Poetry of Emerging Youth y Sus Maestros del Movimiento (Centro de la Raza, 1997).

In Creative Resistance: U. S. Puerto Rican Women (Third Woman Press, 1994).

Connecticut Poets, (National League of American PEN Women, Vol. II, 1990).

Journals (Poetry):  

Terra Incognita (No. 3, 2003): “Consejo Número 13 Given By an Otherwise Ill-Willed Papi Chulo Pueblo Man, a Tiwa, Who Cared About Prayers,”  and “Brujo #1 for the Papi Chulo Who Must Go.”

African Voices (2002): “Chucho,”  “When the Downtown Soup Kitchen was a Restaurant,” and “Tribute to Your Eyes.”

Beltway (Summer 2002): Reprints of “Secrets,” “El placer de la palabra,” “The Night I Walk into Town,” “Poverty,” “Sweeping,” and “Lawns.”

Red River Review (August 2001): “The Land of Your Country,” and “When You Left.”  

The Potomac Review (Vo. VIII, No. 3, 2001): “Maple Branch,” and excerpts from “Springer Mountain.”

Peregrine (Vol. XVIII, 1999, Editor’s Choice):  “Loose About.”  

Hanging Loose (#72, Spring l998): "Golden Chopsticks."

Peregrine (Vol. XV, Winter 1996): "Caesura."  

Poetry USA (Summer 1996): "A Coquí in Nueva York."

The Caribbean Writer (Vol. 9, Summer 1995): "A Man Will Rush from Behind Me," and "Amber Hands."  

Kalliope (Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall 1995): "It Was Late and She Was Climbing."

The Massachusetts Review (Vol. 36, No. 4, December 1995): "Reform," and "Papo Who'd Wanted to be an Artist."  

Callaloo  ("Puerto Rican Women Writers: Special Issue," Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 1994): "Immigrant's Voice," "If We Passed You," "Words," "Haiti," "For 'S,'" "Airborne," "Fifteen-Ten," "For Late Nite Poems," and "Abuelo's Garden."

Moving Out (Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2, 1993): "Sketch of Alice at the Factory."  

Callaloo  ("Puerto Rican Literature: A Special Focus," Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall 1992): "Wild Animals on the Moon," and "Lawns."  .

Next Phase  (Vol. I, No. 7, 1992): "Outside the Lines."

The Hobo Jungle  (Vol. I, No. 8, Autumn, 1990): "Sketch of Alice at the Factory."

Taller Literario  (Vol. I, Spring 1986): "El Accidente."

Contact: Naomi Ayala  Riverword@msn.com