Always Messing With Them Boys
"Every generation a few select voices seem to rise up and represent a revolution in the mechanics and mission of poetry. This collection is an exotic, aphrodisiacal perfume wafting through the senses, thickly spiced by the dual nature of a poet whose culture and experience effortlessly blend concrete imagery with a quiet, fierce longing for a world that may only exist within memory—or verse.
Jessica Helen Lopez sings in these poems; they are signal flares drawn from those pivotal moments of living that evoke the feminine, the sensual and the surreal in equal measure. These are the songs of the bruja, the bread-heavy hands of a mother, the beautiful indignation of a hopeless optimist."—Zachary Kluckman
Jessica Helen Lopez is a three-time member of the City of Albuquerque Slam Team and the 2008 National Champion Winning UNM Lobo Slam Team. Mother to a vivacious eight-year-old daughter, Lopez has been published in A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene, and other collections. She is a member of the Macondo Foundation, founded by Sandra Cisneros, an association of socially engaged writers united to advance creativity, foster generosity, and honor community.
