Poetry

Where the Girls Are • Had
Acrophobia • The Blue Mountain Review
Two Poems • La Libreta
Ode to the Grocery • Honey Literary
Five Things Borrowed • Wildness
Get Out of My House • ecotone
Michigan’s Original Chingona: An interview with Diane Seuss • ANMLY
My God Has the Head of a Vulture - Two poems • Electric Literature
Two poems • Diode Poetry Journal
In the One Photo & Mexico City in the Middle of Michigan • 2022 Latino Book Review magazine
Two poems & a Field Note • Life List by Poetry Northwest
American Crow • Beloit Poetry Journal
Birds of a Feather • Poet Lore
Why I Don’t Go to Church • Witness
Two poems • Gastronomica
Table for Two Please • The Indianapolis Review
Feeding Rituals • The Missouri Review
Two poems • the museum of americana
John James Audubon and the Battle of San Jacinto • Newfound
Hemingway Country • Frontier Poetry
Two poems • Terrain.org
Cortés Burning the Aviaries • The Nation
Three poems • The Rupture
Four poems • Waxwing
Mexican American in the Midwest • Essay Daily
Conversation with Andrew Hamilton • Good Hart Artist Residency
Two poems • The Fiddlehead
Mise En Place • Sporklet
Flip It And Reverse It: An Interview With Amy Sara Carroll • Michigan Quarterly Review
The Noiseless Flight of Owl Wings • Poetry Daily
The Noiseless Flight of Owl Wings • Black Warrior Review
Citizenship of the Owl at General Motors • Anomaly
As I Remember an Unusual Bird Divides the Sky • Pleiades 40.1
Soy de la Luna & Poem in Consideration of My Death • The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4 - LatiNext
Learning to Sail, I Can Only Think of Odysseus and Ask to be Tied to the Mast • BOAAT
The Painted Skulls, Held by Wings, Glistened in Rain • The Florida Review
Poem In Consideration of My Death • Cosmonauts Avenue
‘Poem in Consideration of My Death' by Monica Rico — Hannah Cohen • Wildness
The Universe, According to Rufino Tamayo • Split This Rock
Soy de la Luna, I am from the Moon (Volveré a la Luna, I Will Return to the Moon) • Glass: A Journal of Poetry
The Last Meal for Those Who Are Familiar With My Body of Work • Barrelhouse
Incantation On the Eve of 2017 • Cleaver
Erasures by Monica Rico • Moonchild Magazine
Self Study as a Snow Globe • Sidekick Lit
Three poems • Luna Luna
We Never Got to Cucumber Sandwiches • The Ilanot Review
One Shotgun Shell Through the Back • The Ilanot Review
A Halo of Carnations • Up the Staircase Quarterly
Yes, in 1952 White Teachers Made Their Students Stand Up and Tell the Class What Their Fathers Did for a Living • Rouge Agent
My Strange Baile • Rogue Agent

“Evoking the splotches and stains on the sleeves of her chef whites, Rico’s poems are brilliantly tactile, giving new significance to elasticity as a means to stretch across the lines between home and professional cooking.”
— Daniel E. Bender and Signe Rousseau, for the Gastronomica Editorial Collective, Toronto and Cape Town, September 2021

Readings

The Living Room Online Literary Series International Women's Month Reading March 27 2022

Selected Erasures

Monica’s 183 Erasures