Selected Publications
Lessons from My Family, The Rumpus, 2024
We Never Did This to be Beautiful, Voicemail Poems, 2023
the women (in this house) & Why did I become a poet?, TORCH Literary Arts, 2023
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella, Academy of American Poets, 2022
How to Grieve Your Lover, Scalawag Magazine, 2022
write about the kumbia kings, Teen Vogue, 2021
Letter to Yanga, from Six-Year-Old Ariana, Literary Hub, 2021
Dear White Girls in My Spanish Class, The Acentos Review, 2019
Cumbia, The Acentos Review, 2019
Instead, The Acentos Review, 2019
Introductions, Scalawag Magazine, 2018
In Defense of Santana's "Maria Maria"..., Rattle, 2018
A Division of Gods, Winter Tangerine, 2017
Abuela, de Carrizo Springs, As/Us, 2017
Supremacy, Muzzle, 2017
At the End of the Sword, Nepantla: A Queer Poets of Color Anthology, 2016
Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans for “Invocation”
Topics: Black hair, Black girlhood, self-esteem, self-care, beauty, misogyny, anti-Blackness
HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLANSLesson Plans for “Passage”
Topics: bilingualism, African slavery in Mexico, Latinx identity, race/ethnicity, anti-Blackness
HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLANSLesson Plans for “Curanderismo”
Topics: curanderismo (Mexican folk healing), spirituality, mental health, self-care
HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLANSWe Are Owed. Teacher’s Guide
Developed by Ariana Brown & Prof. Joshua Deckman. Ideal for high school and college classrooms. Includes key themes, discussion questions, paired readings, and assignments.
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