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Verses and Votes: an evening of Poetry and Politics

Verses & Votes: An Evening of Politics & Poetrywith Maria Garcia Teutsch and Suzanne Gavenus, Candidate for Democratic NC House District 856:30 PMHomeplace Beer Co. 3rd Floor Mezzanine321 Main StreetBurnsville, NC Sponsored by Plott Hound Books in honor of National Poetry Month Two best friends. Two callings. Join us for a lively and thoughtful evening…

The Champagne Chair in the New York Times

The Champagne Chairby: M. Garcia TeutschAn abridged version of this essay is featured in the New York Times’ Valentine’s Day IssueThe Objects We Keep for Love 14 February 2026 My love item is from one of the first dates with my husband of now 20 years. It is a chair fashioned from the wire cage,…

Profiles in Poetics, Interview with Women’s Quarterly Conversation

My interview with Jillian Mukavetz for Women’s Quarterly Conversation can be found HERE

The Blue Whale of Madness cinepoem

In The Blue Whale of Madness the Mermaid embraces the round, alluring, hair like dark water, scales glittering like a lure, archetype, while undercutting the romance with danger (“you’ll follow me… feel the crack of your bones”). The mythic seduction here is not passive but weaponized, binding beauty to power and power to risk. This…

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards–a book of poems

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards, published by Bottlecap Press, is a collection that can be understood as a cartography of identity—mapping emotional, cultural, familial, and bodily terrains. The use of Lotería cards is more than decorative—it offers a mythopoetic framework that grounds intimate, raw stories in universal symbols.

Analysis of Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

When I Write by Hand

When I write by hand–out flows my dead father’s cursive,as though he’s sending me a letterfrom my past to future self:you are never freefrom the museum of family.

The Sacrament of the Beans

Under my grandma’s collectionof salt-and-pepper shakers

“Pentimento”-Magdalena Magazine

I am honored to be included in Michelle Magdalena’s Magazine, Magdalena which features my poems, “The Swallows of America,” and “Pentimento.”

The Revolution Will Have its Sky

Written and Directed by: Maria Garcia Teutsch–a poem in one act