Book cover for "My God is Brown" by Angelica M. Yanez, featuring an illustration of a woman with brown skin and long dark hair, closed eyes, wearing a turquoise earring, surrounded by red flowers with green leaves, and a cracked earth background.

MY GOD IS BROWN

My God is Brown is a poetry collection that invites readers to return to the stories, people, and places that shape us. Through poems of family, labor, Indigenous memory, spirituality, joy, grief, and love, Angélica M. Yañez reminds us that some of our most important histories are carried long before they are ever written down.

Available September 15, 2026

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Advance Praise

"My God is Brown is a love letter to mi gente that prays, 'We sit in circles / We dance in circles / We pray in circles / Most of all we repair circles,' that sings, 'huey huey pāpālōtl / huey huey pāpālōtl / yōllōtl yōllōtl / pāpālōtl pāpālōtl,' and witnesses 'women coming into themselves, / crowning in blood and breath.' This debut collection chants resistance and history and envisions a future where we will 'sweep away centuries of lies and ash, to find the earth beneath, the tender scalp of a land still breathing.'"

— ire'ne lara silva
2023 Texas State Poet Laureate

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