Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color BOTY_2025 Painted Horses sings a love

Painted Horses sings a love song to the horseman’s vanishing way of life and reminds us that love and ambition

and suddenly small moments fast become regrets or unexpected boons

With panoramic sweep

then decide whether to invest in a smoker

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color BOTY_2025 Painted Horses sings a loveThe first major literary anthology for Queer Poets of Color in the United States. In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the experiences of QPOC in the United States. Now, Nepantla will appear for the first time in print as a survey of poetry by