Poetry, Essays, Writings — Ayling Zulema Dominguez

“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and they must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven,” —

James Baldwin, 1962

As a poet, I am limitless on the page and extend that offering to community through my words. For what are poets but translators of images (whether imagined or viewed to be “real” on this Earthly plane)? Radical poets, then, purveyors of future mindscapes and imaginative playing grounds, curtain-pullers of false current truths imposed by dominating/in-power image systems. Language holds immense power to transform individual and collective realities, and it is through poetry that I make every effort to do so.

Essays —

‘Consider What Decolonising Gender Can Look Like’: Non-Binary Ways of Being as Anti-Colonial and Abundant

HEROICA, Dec 2023.

Poetry —

Upcoming poems in: Issue 44 of The Texas Review, and a HarperCollins anthology.

“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and they must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven,” —

James Baldwin, 1962

‘Consider What Decolonising Gender Can Look Like’: Non-Binary Ways of Being as Anti-Colonial and Abundant

Classed with and Aguatero y Limpiatumba

Cry Me a World Without Borders and Las Condiciones Que No Me Permiten

As Many Different Shapes

We Discover a Thing Called Growth, and The Death of This River

The Slanted and The Bed (Brown Love Fable)

My Daughter’s Name

WAKE UP

Matatana Reimagined: It is Okay To Love. Both Others and Yourself, Coñazo