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Hinchas de Poesia (on-line literary journal)

Hinchas de Poesia is an on-line literary journal [(www.hinchasdepoesia.com)] of writing and aesthetics published simultaneously in New York City and Miami. Currently, the journal is programmed to have fall, spring, and summer issues. Hinchas de Poesia Press is the imprint of the journal and specializes in zines and mimeographed codices in English, Spanish, and Spanglish.

History

Hinchas de Poesia was founded by J. David Gonzalez and Yago Cura in July of 2009. In August of 2009, Adolfo Barandiaran was asked to become the Art Director, a short-lived proposition. The editorial board includes Yago S. Cura as Poetry Editor and J. David Gonzalez as Fiction Editor. However, the journal has had many writers, like Will Esposito and Lauren Ireland from the University of Massachusetts—Amherst and Justin Petropoulos from Indiana University, associated with it’s genesis.

Yago S. Cura is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at UMASS—Amherst, and J. David Gonzalez is currently a candidate at Florida International University’s M.F.A. program. Coincidentally, Yago Cura, Justin Petropoulos and J. David Gonzales met at Florida International University while pursuing undergraduate degrees in English. Cura met Will Esposito and Lauren Ireland while they were all candidates in the UMASS—Amherst M.F.A. program.

2009 was a busy year for J. David Gonzalez and Yago S. Cura, especially for endeavors taken through Hinchas de Poesia Press. Hinchas published several zines in 2009 and collaborated with Abel Folgar, a Miami stalwart, on Dos Crotos Culos Rotos (Two Broke-Down Vagrants), Bestias Inberbes (Beardless Beasts) and Il Capocannonieri, the name given in Italy to the highest League scorer.

However, the beginning of the year was dedicated to several titles: Odas a Futbolistas, Oskar and Oskar's Auto Spielen Cafe, Hampster Hipsters. On these titles, Hinchas experimented with a six-fold codex that could be employed on a single 8.5 X 11 sheet of paper. While unconventional, Cura learned a great deal from making these tiny zines.

In 2010, Hinchas de Poesia Press started using the print-on demand system used at places like Hewlett Packard's MagCloud. Their first publication using MagCloud was a short story written by James Foley titled, Compound Memorandum. This was followed shortly after by the collection, ''Odas a Futbolistas. '' All illustrations are created by Chaz Folgar, the illustrator and founder of Goif! comix.

Scope of Hinchas

An hincha is a fanatical soccer fan, except to call them as such does their sense of fanaticism little service. In reality, an hincha is a homicidal fan of soccer—what you might call a hooligan in England or cretin in France. While Argentines believe that their soccer fans, or hinchas, are the most fanatical soccer fans in the world, it is hard to speculate which country has the most fanatical soccer fans.

Hinchas de Poesia features the work of writers and artists from the Americas. The idea for the magazine came as a response to the schism in U.S. publishing between ethnic writers (particularly Latino) and their Anglo counterparts. Likewise, the creation of the journal was inspired by Jose Marti’s essay, Nuestra America and the idea that North American and South America have more similarities than differences.