Party Line: Poems

A debut collection that examines US-Cuba tensions, transnational Black identity, and revolutionary gatherings

Kyle Carrero Lopez’s electrifying debut collection centers three interconnected forces: social life, US-Cuba relations, and the lives of Black people in the United States and Cuba. Through familial, satirical, and geopolitical lenses, Party Line considers how countries—and people—wield power over those they have othered.

The collection features a series meditating on tensions embedded...