A Plate of Pandemic
Published Quarterly on the Solstices and Equinoxes
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Suzanna C. de Baca is a native Iowan, proud Latina, author, and artist who is passionate about exploring change and transformation. She is a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative and her poetry has been published or will soon appear in: Etched Onyx Magazine; Wholeness: A Wising Up Anthology; Written Tales; Impermanent Earth; Voices de la Luna; Choeofpleirn Press Glacial Hills Review; Choeofpleirn Press Rushing Through the Dark; Best of Cheoefpleirn Press, Our Silent Voices Anthology; Black Fox Literary Magazine; iō Literary Review; Yellow Arrow Press; The Letter Review; Way Words Literary Journal; Telling Magazine and other outlets. She is the recipient of the Derick Burleson Poetry Award and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in the small rural town of Huxley, Iowa, population 4244.
There is a stoplight now in my hometown at the intersection of Highway 69 and 210. I slow my car down, impatient for the light to turn. I look over at the cemetery where my mother-in-law is buried. I did not know her well. But I think of her now. She grew up in […]