https://www.nataliescenterszapico.net/latest daily 1.0 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1631759324155-ZQVMOR63M991NEO8YJP1/Natalie-Scenters-Zapico-by-John-Markadakis.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1631759324155-ZQVMOR63M991NEO8YJP1/Natalie-Scenters-Zapico-by-John-Markadakis.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1745943565295-SIS55OP9WD5G0VHZUZDQ/Screenshot+2025-04-29+at+12.19.13%E2%80%AFPM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1734018129470-ES05TENK75SYCWLFIZAW/IMG_4749.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1527115882049-IWAOWX3FOJ9SHIE0UJGC/IMG_4196.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1734018228039-SEMFK71ZPYBW3V5MIKHK/IMG_4753.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1734018220326-92058RBZZZ74NDDK7B92/IMG_4752.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1631807265837-4FU44DMGQBMXP7TP3NNK/Screen+Shot+2021-09-16+at+11.47.32+AM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1631759274876-ZCAA1Z7CFOW29YWWLUMT/download.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515814002819-9G2NXVXZLIV2NY1GNPC4/The+Verging+Cities+cover+front.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515954898155-Z9SCMF043HUQAXUDE8I9/51b9N8yS5ML._SX378_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515814073358-49T634JBAM896BIPUTYT/51b9N8yS5ML._SX378_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515814045628-FGCGRYBMG4XRK72AZF4A/The+Verging+Cities+cover+front.jpg Home https://www.nataliescenterszapico.net/books daily 0.75 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/bec10a54-7a25-4920-8058-086a2e72dd8b/Screenshot+2025-04-29+at+10.05.42%E2%80%AFAM.png Books - My Perfect Cognate Buy Now (Copper Canyon Press 2025) My Perfect Cognate interrogates the connections and contrasts at the sharp edges of her in-betweens: violence and softness, motherhood and isolation, the United States and Mexico. Written from the depths of severe post-partum depression, Natalie Scenters-Zapico searches for a language that can hold both personal and communal pain. When Spanish and English seem insufficient, she leans on the connection between the two languages: the cognate. Originally a way to document lineage through the mother, the cognate provides a possible bridge of understanding. Yet, for every cognate that works as a mirror reflection, the wave of a border agent’s hand, a stamped passport, a false cognate works as an expired visa, a rejected biometric scan, a port of entry shut down by violent legislation. Natalie Scenters-Zapico mines the depths of linguistic cognate theory to write poems that go beyond translation and mistranslation. We find hope in a translingual landscape that breaks open borders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1544026948260-H74PNQGI5S3NOZ1V0QSL/unnamed.jpg Books - Lima :: Limón Purchase Winner of Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize 2021 Shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist for the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award BuzzFeed's Books Coming in 2019 That You'll Want To Keep On Your Radar NPR's 2019 Poetry Preview NBC's 8 Excellent Latino Poetry Books for National Poetry Month The Rumpus's Books To Read in 2019 Remezcla's 8 Books to Read this Year Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books To Read For Spring 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515516981387-Q1RIF9PAUAPJI2IBLD6I/51b9N8yS5ML._SX378_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Books - The Verging Cities Purchase Winner of the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award in Poetry Winner of the GLCA's 2016 New Writers Award Winner of the 2016 Utah Book Award Winner of the 2016 NACCS Book Award Featured as One of The Best Debuts of 2015 by Poets and Writers Named one of 23 Essential New Books By Latino Poets by Los Angeles Times Named a Top 30 Must-Read Poetry Debut by LitHub https://www.nataliescenterszapico.net/about daily 0.75 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1d078701-519d-435b-82ba-9bf22fe25b93/H4928-L399750910.jpg Poems - 2026 “Aura” The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, forthcoming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/eec0e288-2847-4c0e-aece-e08177921599/Ciudad-Juarez-MX-1854-Carl-SchuchardTM-1024x701.jpg Poems - 2025 “Espejismos.” Copper Nickel, No. 40 Spring 2025. “I Want Drone Footage,” and “There Are Women Out There Living.” 32 Poems, No. 44 Winter 2025. “Month One.” Prairie Schooner, Vol. 98 No. 3. “The Mirrors & The Mirror.” Meridian, No. 49. “Matrescence.” The Adroit Journal, Issue 54. “These Rivers, The United States, and Me.” Georgia Review, Fall 2025. “Agnate.” Ninth Letter, Vol. 22 Issue 01. Storni, Alfonsina, translated by Natalie Scenters-Zapico. “Little Small Man.” Massachusetts Review, Vol 66 No. 3 Fall 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/b4c4ee3d-cc65-4117-8073-ba9217395a2d/texashistory.unt.jpg Poems - 2024 “Falso Cognato,” “En Cognato,” and “In Cognate,” The Kenyon Review, Vol. XLVI No. 1 Winter 2024. “Falso Cognato,” and “Baby Blues,” The Yale Review, Volume. 112 No. 3 Fall 2024. “Sentimental Evening,” Best American Poetry 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/406337ad-f03f-4333-8701-9b594a1d6c4c/post-office-ciudad-juarez-mexico-0e3be1-1024.jpg Poems - 2023 “Sentimental Evening,” The New Republic. September 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/e1634c5a-81ac-412a-a9ca-9a503766bb4e/service-pnp-habshaer-tx-tx0400-tx0461-photos-156988pr.jpg Poems - 2022 “Sophia Wants a Baby and So Do I,” —Colorado Review. “Drone,” “Because I am a Good Shot,” and “Another’s Living Soul,” —Narrative. “Object Mother” and “A Tiny Nest of Paper,” —Southern Indiana Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1616246058024-SZITO67JHFRHPT40T1HR/399d2a201355a29243c5a444b8bb2027-800.jpg Poems - 2021 “1,723 Miles Away From Home,” and “The Aeryon R80D Skyraider,” —The Yale Review. “Present This Receipt to CBP,” and “Agent,” —New England Review. “Small Unmanned Aerial Systems,” “CCTV,” and “The Lockheed Martin Indago 3” —Gulf Coast 34.1, Fall 2021. “Fable,” “Smolder,” and “In Youth”—Puerto Del Sol, Vol. 56 Issue 1, Fall 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1602085144120-LGYS5ZCJ45FXZ5NDBJUT/s-l400.jpg Poems - 2020 “Pledge Allegiance.” -The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day. 1October 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1549574654093-PER8ZUSNR8423DQHHNUA/Cordova-Island-Aerial-2.jpg Poems - 2019 “After Making Red Chile.” Ploughshares, forthcoming. “The Trick is to Pretend.” Paris Review, forthcoming. “Paper Cuts.” The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day, July 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1544042591527-ZTTRK5RE0X61MT7FRKBV/8b32436r.jpg Poems - 2018 “Notes on My Present: A Contrapuntal,” “In The Culture of Now,” and “More Than One Man Has Reached Up My Skirt.” POETRY, December 2018. Print and Online. “Macho :: Hembra” and “Receta en El Cajon.” Kenyon Review, Vol. XL No. 4, July/August 2018. Print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515869154665-ODDGC08I2G65Z64T196H/06df2673aa10a7f4625aef0acc92721c.jpg Poems - 2017 "Kept" -POETRY, November 2017. "For My Son" & "My Gift" -Tin House, Winter Reading 2017. "Border Crossing Simulation" -Boulevard. No. 97. "Aesthetic Translation" -Zócalo Public Square, Nov. 17, 2017. "Buen Esqueleto" -Buzzfeed Reader, July 7, 2017. "My Brother" & "Amerigo Vespucci" -Los Angeles Review of Books, No. 15. "In The Age of Los Zetas" & "Name Search"- Indiana Review, Volume 39, No. 2. "There Is No Such Thing as Confession in Latinx Poetry" -Gulf Coast, Volume 29, Issue 2. "I Wait For a Bus" & "At a Party I Tell a Story & Ask:" -West Branch, Fall 2017, No. 85. "A Crown of Gold Snakes on My Head" -Bennington Review, Issue 3. "I am á la Mode" & "She is á la Mode" -Western Humanities Review, Volume 70.2. "Women's Work"-Boston Review, February 2017. "One Body" & "He Has An Oral Fixation"-POETRY, February 2017. "One Body" -Poetry Daily, February 16th, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515869794743-0IDH8ASCD9HN28MCP16H/21842-75506.jpg Poems - 2016 "You Are a Dark Body" -The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, October 2016. "You Say Tomato, Yo Tomatl" -The Shallow Ends, October 2016. "Lima Limón" & "Dear Drone" -Tinderbox, July 2016. "Neomachismo" -NACLA:Report on the Americas, July 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515870029992-75N624ULJBZXRVLLP2WH/images-1.jpg Poems - 2015 "There Is a Bird in My Mouth" -The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, 9 December 2015. "I am with Child" & "On Ash Wednesday" -HEArt Human Equity Through Art, October 2015. "Argyria" -The Awl, October 2015. "Endnotes on Cd. Juárez" -Best American Poetry 2015 (originally published in West Branch). "Angel and I Are Both Great Pretenders" & "Like Victorian Women" -The Massachusetts Review, Fall 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515870326915-W7M1I3JPSGYTDRLNT1BN/Screen+Shot+2018-01-12+at+9.51.23+PM.png Poems - 2014 "Because They Lack Country," "Mouth in my Kitchen," & "Placement" -American Poets, Introducing Series featured by Dana Levin, Winter/Fall 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515870473174-GIZEITQ7NE83K3BZEMWZ/Screen+Shot+2018-01-12+at+9.52.00+PM.png Poems - 2013 "Crossing" & "Broken Initials" -Prairie Schooner, Fall 2013. Winner of a Glenna Luschei Prize. "Notes on Cd. Juárez as a Play" & "Endnotes on Cd. Juárez" -West Branch, Fall 2013. "Angels Fall From the Sky to El Paso, Texas" & "Your Mouth is Full" -Crab Orchard Review, Spring 2013. "The City is a Body Broken" -Four Way Review. 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515870922210-UC6AOUS88WHJPGUZ4FWL/Screen+Shot+2018-01-12+at+9.52.36+PM.png Poems - 2012 "Bibbed in Paisley he Reads Zizek Instead" -The Believer, Fall 2012. "This Bitter Salt"-The Cortland Review. Fall 2012. "Dear Angel" & "La Mariscal" -PALABRA, Spring 2012. "I Light the House on Fire and Lie Down" & "A Torero's Daughter is Killed" -Cream City Review, Spring 2012. "Escaping The Verging Cities," "The Archeologist Came To Hunt Trilobites," "The Corner Store Clerk Says Her Name Was Ofelia," "The Verging Cities Watch Me," & "The Poems Shows Up" -As/Us, Spring 2012. "After I Read Your Obituary" -Cura, Fall 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515871356425-K9D1IGCJVXVOSSO3W1B4/Screen+Shot+2018-01-12+at+9.52.11+PM.png Poems - 2011 "Succulence" -Bellevue Literary Review. Fall 2011. "Guerrero Pears" -The Acentos Review. Fall 2011. "How Borders are Built" -The Minnesota Review. Spring 2011. https://www.nataliescenterszapico.net/about-me daily 0.75 2025-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1631807220361-287RCOS4ZZYVQP7P8SY5/Natalie-Scenters-Zapico-by-John-Markadakis.jpg About - About Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from El Paso, Texas. She is the author of three collections of poetry, My Perfect Cognate (Copper Canyon Press September 2025), Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press 2019) and The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing 2015). Winner of Yale University’s Windham Campbell Prize (2021), she has held a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation (2018), a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2017), and a CantoMundo Fellowship (2015). Her first book, The Verging Cities, won the PEN/America Joyce Osterweil Award (2016), the GLCA New Writer's Award (2016), and the Utah Book Award (2016). Her second book, Lima :: Limón, was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize (2020) and shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize (2020). Her books have been reviewed widely in publications like The New Yorker, NPR, The Washington Post, and Publisher's Weekly. Natalie’s latest poems have been published or are forthcoming in publications like The Paris Review, The New Republic, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, Best American Poetry 2024 and more. She teaches in the undergraduate and MFA creative writing programs at the University of South Florida, where she won a USF 2022 Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award (ORAA) and a 2023-2024 McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship. She is Inaugural Director of the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library at USF. Natalie currently lives in Tampa with her husband, young son, suegros, and little dog. https://www.nataliescenterszapico.net/contact daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a54ee5d90bade2d774b4dc7/1515948063363-D232I4WEEQ20KDKN5P1D/26005r.jpg Contact - Contact Please direct all requests for readings, workshops, or collaborations to Leslie Shipman of The Shipman Agency: leslie@theshipmanagency.com C/S