POETRY by EMILY PéREZ

My Husband Asks Me to Write a Love Poem, Bedtime Story Tinderbox June 2024

Underwater Indestructible Ultra Woman, After Reading Please Shred: An Invocation DIALOGIST March 2024

Oh, Pain Pill!, What Changes Waxwing October 2023

Didn’t I Wish, Paper Year, Self-Care in the Summer Poetry is Currency June 2023

Have You Seen Yourself From Behind Indianapolis Review Fall 2022

Self-Care in the Basement Indianapolis Review Fall 2022

The Wish Unwished and Still New Ilanot Review: WANT Issue Fall 2022

What’s a Thing You Can Finish What’s a Thing You Can Fix Shenandoah Fall 2022

We are All God’s Poems Shenandoah Fall 2022

So Well Deserved Muzzle Fall 2022

Nondisclosure by J[ ] R[ ] Longleaf Review Jun 2022 

Orientation Kenyon Review Mar/Apr 2022

Jeffrey Pine DREGINALD Dec 2021

Remedy Okay Donkey Mar 2021

[I am teaching my son the art of touching] Literary Mama Nov/Dec 2020

Today I Wonder What if No One Finds Her, On Loss of Memory, On Lack of Imagination, On Vulnerability on Stage Cutbank Oct 2020

You Mattered to Me ANMLY Feb 2020

Ten Years Later, My Husband Walks Out of The Woods The Missouri Review Jan 2020

Primer Tin House May 2019

Two Daughters SWWIM Apr 2019

My Husband’s Hands, My Son Is, Stolen Things: Part III, What if There Was a Cat Queen Mob’s Teahouse Apr 2019

Song for My Daughter, Song for My Son, Out of the Wood— Fairy Tale Review Oct 2018

Election Scalawag Sept 2018

Enough Glass: A Journal of Poetry Sept 2018

[ ] Missing [ ], Part I Queen Mob’s Teahouse Sept 2018

Aftermath, Lockdown 1st Grade, When he comes Acentos Review Feb 2018

Hindsight, Nightwatch, Making and Unmaking Diode Vol 13 number 2

Dworzec Poetry Foundation 2017

Inhospitable Poetry Magazine Nov 2016

At First Friction Online

Advice to My Younger Self: Winter The Far Field

The Flood DIAGRAM

Correction, Embrace, Wheat Field With Crows, Advice to My Younger Self: Fall, Epithalamium in Colorado Encyclopedia

MORE WRITING By Emily Pérez

Q&A Maldonado Leads the Academy” in POETS & WRITERS May/June 2024

“Q&A Francisco Aragón of Letras Latinas” in POETS & WRITERS February 2024

“Channeling the Conversation into an Anthology About Motherhood: A Craft Essay” in CINCINNATI REVIEW December 2022

“Sounding and Resounding: the Immersive Poetry of Atsuro Riley (on Atsuro Riley’s ROMEY’S ORDER and HEARD-HOARD)” for GEORGIA REVIEW Summer 2022

Review of WHAT HAPPENS IS NEITHER by Angela Narciso Torres for POETRY NORTHWEST December 2021

“A Lesson in Courage and Tenderness: On Krys Malcolm Belc’s THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD” for LARB August 2021

“Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry” Essay Review of PATTER by DOUGLAS KEARNEY, THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH by OLIVER DE LA PAZ, THE TREMBLING ANSWERS by CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER, and NOCTUARY by NIALL CAMPBELL for GEORGIA REVIEW Spring 2021

Review of MY DARLING FROM THE LIONS by RACHEL LONG for THE POETRY SCHOOL

Review of POST COLONIAL LOVE POEM by NATALIE DIAZ for THE GUARDIAN August 2020

Review of BUILD YOURSELF A BOAT by CAMONGHNE FELIX for THE RUMPUS January 2020

“Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood” Essay Review of STILL LIFE WITH MOTHER AND KNIFE by CHELSEA RATHBURN, ALL ITS CHARMS by KEETJE KUIPERS, NATURAL BIRTH by TOI DERRICOTTE, and DAY COUNTER by SARA MUMOLO for GEORGIA REVIEW Winter 2019

Review of BE RECORDER by CARMEN GIMÉNEZ SMITH for LA REVIEW

Review of EVERYTHING HERE by BILLIE SWIFT for THE RUMPUS September 2019

Review of HEART LIKE A WINDOW, MOUTH LIKE A CLIFF by SARA BORJAS for THE RUMPUS May 2019

“Hurtling Headlong into Cruel Futures” a review of Cruel Futures by Carmen Giménez for BOSTON REVIEW July 2018