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shape a course search the islands the Indians had more gold than earth. The Lord of that land would give him all he wanted. The Admiral asked for anything as if receiving a great favour. It took a good part of the day before Indians who were on board understood them because their invitation was signs and superstitions in the hope other people would become Christians and that we may serve with love and pieces of gold.

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Irene Villaseñor's writing appears in Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology (Autumn House Press, 2022), My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy (punctum books, 2022), Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018), Nat. Brut, The Journal for Latina Critical Feminism, The Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought, and elsewhere. She is a fully funded Poetry Fellow for Lambda Literary's 2022 Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices and a Connie Zumpf Fellow at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop for their 2022 - 2023 Poetry Collective. During this year Irene also read her poetry at the Whitney Biennial: Quiet As It's Kept in honor of Steve Cannon and A Gathering of the Tribes. She is Aeta, Chinese, Ifugao, and Purépecha.

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