Rachel R. Vasquez
A Puerto Rican poet and author with a heart that belongs to all five of New York’s boroughs.
Onderdonk & Gates
My first chapbook — my offering to the old neighborhood that still lives on in my bones.
They rocked door knockers on Knickerbocker.
And doors were knockin’ with “Dios te bendiga” damas
who called me Nena,
and asked me to pray for knocked-up primas.Solo para mi gente would dale don dale down Wilson.
Where banderas marched on the wind…
Rachel's Floetry 