Felicia Zamora

Biography

Felicia Zamora’s books include Murmuration Archives (Noemi, 2026), Interstitial Archaeology (Wisconsin UP, 2025), and I Always Carry My Bones (Iowa UP, 2021), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, the Boston Review, Orion, and other publications. She is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Cincinnati and a poetry editor at the Colorado Review.

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POETRY / Fall 2025

Message to the Skeletal Earth Goddess

By Felicia Zamora

Lorca saw the Duende separate from the muse & the angel. Bodily. Inheritance. Tlazoltéotl, all passages through you.

POETRY / Fall 2025

Message to the Young Goddess of the Moon

By Felicia Zamora

No thoughts to say about the moon. The novelist jokes about not being a poet. I feel the lie.

 

POETRY / Fall 2025

Message to the Goddess of Running Water

By Felicia Zamora

Skull-faced Venus impales you. Chalchiuhtlicue, Goddess of the East. Venus, West. Directions, too, in conflict. War inside creates war outside. All the outsides. All the insides.

POETRY / Fall 2025

Message to Rabbit in the Moon

By Felicia Zamora

Ixchel, I feel you crossing. Night womb. Tell me where the seeds go.

POETRY / Fall 2025

Xibalbá :: Shape

By Felicia Zamora

Starlings know to veer. Anatomically attuned to each premonition of each starling. Sacred space.