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Leticia Priebe Rocha

Leticia Priebe Rocha is the author of In Lieu of Heartbreak, This is Like (Bottlecap Press, 2024). She graduated from Tufts University, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets University Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, Leticia immigrated to Miami, FL at the age of nine and currently resides in Greater Boston. Her poems appear in Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora, Salamander, Rattle, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Fine Arts Work Center, Undocupoets, and Mass Cultural Council. Leticia is an editor for Yellow Arrow Publishing, teaches poetry workshops, and loves the moon.
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    Leticia Priebe Rocha

    On Drowning

    I learned from my mother, passed down from her mother, how to hold inside me a great ocean of sadness because the world is a cruel and inhospitable place. At the age of fifteen, I first told her I didn’t…