ephemeral by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

“ephemeral is lush and hypnotic, a greenhouse of exotic unnamed plants, of longing. The language is elemental, physical, wrought, erotic. This poet has a rare sonic gift she uses to tell us the music of “gods who brighten the broad earth.”  I want love to live in all of us this way, the animal inside us vibrating in tandem with the world’s pulsing heart.”

Carmen Giménez

This chapbook of poems by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes won the 2022 Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize, and is presented in a bilingual edition with Spanish translations by Alexandra Lytton Regalado and Rocío Bolaños.

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, sick/disabled, brown/Colombian, poet, scholar, educator, and cultural worker from southern California. Their poetry collection, The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) won the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. They are a 2023 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, a VONA alum, and have received fellowships from Zoeglossia, CantoMundo, Radar, and Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Their poetry has been published in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Waxwing, among other places.