K.L. Cook’s Marrying Kind (Ice Cube Press) is a short story collection concerned with masks—what mask do we wear to veil our true selves from the world? And, importantly, how might life’s endless rehearsals lead us closer to our understanding of ourselves? In nine expe...

Puerto del Sol interview with Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House tackles trauma, haunted houses, and abuse in queer relationships.

Patrick Stockwell’s novella, The Light Here Changes Everything, is a journey from Texas to Arizona in the tradition of a good, old fashioned American road trip. But, Stockwell powerfully challenges the form. While John Steinbeck might go on a similar journey for 400-so...

The Editors of Puerto del Sol would like to thank everyone who submitted their work to the 2019 Poetry and Prose Contest. Our winners were chosen by Emily Pérez and Camille Acker respectively.

2019 Poetry Contest Winner: "The Room Divider" by Rainie Oet

Chosen by Emily P...

Severance (2018, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Ling Ma’s debut novel, holds a satiric mirror to the world, displaying the consequences of the rut of routine, consumerism, the crumbling weight of late-stage capitalism, and what happens next. With juxtaposed timelines that...

In his posthumous collection, Druids (translated by Sonja Kravanja, published by Black Ocean Press), Tomaž Šalamun (1941-2014) recreates our known world into one that is at once haunted and liberated, a rare blend of nature, humanity, faith, disbelief, past, and presen...

The Editors of Puerto Del Sol would like to thank everyone who submitted their work to the 2018 Poetry and Prose Contest. Our winners were chosen by Farid Matuk and Danielle Dutton respectively. 

2018 Poetry Contest Winner: “Langauge in Question”

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On May 4th, 2018, Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose, tweeted that she had been sexually assaulted by Junot Diaz. “…I refuse to be silent anymore,” she said. Following her statement, other writers confirmed and publicized Diaz’s misogyny. While, it’s not new f...

The Door

a naked 

             woman

on knees

and hands

               in the back yard of things...