A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Analicia Sotelo
About
Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin—the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay for Milkweed Editions (2018)—and the chapbook, Nonstop Godhead, selected by Rigoberto González for Poetry Society of America. Sotelo’s poems have also appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, and elsewhere.