Marisa Tirado

MARISA TIRADO is a poet from Chicago. She is currently a graduate student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and also working toward a certificate in literary translation. Her writing is often derived from news articles, instruction manuals, and New Mexican/Southwestern folklore. She also writes about theology and her short stint as a pastor on an island in the Seattle area. You can read more of her poetry in Colorado Review.

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Mom vs. the Cholas

Marisa Tirado

When I imagine it, I first picture the twisted fence, her body warping wire, lava nails pushing her face so deep into metal a cheek pressed through a pentagon. And I assume she was wearing one of her two outfits. But before I get into how the third didn’t come till five years later in […]

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