Dorsía Smith Silva

Dorsía Smith Silva is the author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry, 2024), poetry editor of The Hopper, and professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She has scholarships and fellowships from Bread Loaf and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her poetry is forthcoming in The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume IIThe Cimarron ReviewBeloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is also a member of the Get the Word Out Poetry Cohort and 5 Over 50 Cohort of Poets & Writers in 2024. She has a Ph.D. in Caribbean Literature and posts at @‌DSmithSilva.

Barbie Ñ: Two Poems

She wondered what the big deal even was.
She wondered what was even the point
she needed to remember, anyway.