Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa: "Latinx Visions of Radical Hope"

Photo by Chris Summitt

Originally from Jalisco, México, Osmani R. Alcaraz-Ochoa is a queer poet (he/él/they) and a national organizer for immigrant & worker rights, living in San Antonio, TX. They create poetry that mixes themes of immigration, borders, class, and race through sci-fi and dystopic genres. He has been accepted for publication in Space & Time Magazine, Cuéntame Literary Magazine, Windward Review, La Raíz Magazine and was a finalist for the 2024 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize.

Osmani is featured in two forthcoming Latino sci-fi anthologies: “Not Your Papi's Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope” edited by Matthew David Goodwin, Alex Hernández, and Sara Rivera (Mouthfeel Press) and “Chicanofuturism Now! Visions of a Raza Future” edited by Scott Russell Duncan (Press TBA). 

Photo from Mouthfeel Press

You can pre-order a copy of "Not Your Papi's Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope" through Mouthfeel Press. The anthology contains the work of 25 Latinx writers. Please support Latinx writers like Alcaraz-Ochoa and consider purchasing this book. 

Windward Review published two of Alcaraz-Ortiz's poems in Volume 22: Revolution (2024) which you can read online. Here is one of their incredible poems: 

Sadboi, a brief & sad simile 

It's this love funeral 

An end so abrupt and inconceivable 

I cry and cry 

                                     And cry 

Over a bed of wet white roses. 

Cien años sin ti 

Y estoy inconsolable 

Like the strings  

of Chris Perez's weeping guitar. 

Photo of the Selena Memorial, Mirador de la Flor, by Joshua J. Cotten, June 2019, downtown Corpus Christi, TX.