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Alessandra Gonzalez is a Cuban American poet who dedicates her craft to pinning down the parallels between palm trees. Her work explores the tangled roots of family, memory, and identity, weaving personal experiences with the layered history of Cuba. When she's not writing, you can find her chasing the perfect cafecito, getting lost in old photo albums, or wondering what the ocean remembers.
I’m honored to share that my poems, “I can only visit Camagüey in poems because” and “Rumors of Sugar and Salt,” are now published in Latin@ Literatures!
These pieces trace the layered experience of inheriting a homeland shaped by distance, memory, and imagination — moving between sensory richness and historical weight to explore Cuba as both presence and absence. They reflect on the ache of belonging to a place that lives vividly in family stories yet remains just out of reach, and the ways language becomes a means of return when physical travel is not possible.
I am deeply honored to have this work included in Latin@ Literatures, a publication committed to uplifting voices and stories across the Latino community and beyond.
You can read the poems now at Latin@ Literatures.
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