X nath Caraza's first book-length collection Conjuro: Poems, with introduction by Fred Arroyo, is published by Mammoth Publications, a Native-owned literary press. In this tri-lingual text, Caraza combines Spanish, English, and Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs) to create a continuous spell of verse. Caraza's writing derives from her awareness of Indigenous thought: words are tangible objects, not abstractions; they are capable of influencing physical reality's web of interactions. The poet's connection to her Indigenous and Mexican heritage energizes her verse. This debut collection establishes her as a major voice of 21st American letters. Conjuro shows how multiple cultures co-exist for United States immigrants and descendants. It is appropriate for young adults, Latin American Studies, Indigenous American Studies, and Midwest U.S. Studies. "To travel Conjuro's poetic, terrestrial tapestry, to let its strong linguistic currents move you, is to reside on the earth that X nath Caraza sings into existence. I could listen to her cantos all the days of my life, and know in this music the enchantments, traditions, and streets to travel back toward home." Fred Arroyo

Noche de colibries: Ekphrastic Poems by Xanath Caraza and published by Pandora lobo estepario Productions press is a bilingual chapbook, Spanish and English. Noche de colibries: Ekphrastic Poems is synonymous with painting with words that which emerges from the center of a woman, poet. Polychromatic rhythms are expertly mixed throughout the pages of this book. Images accompany each poem which celebrates each image. This book goes beyond description to create a poem, a story, yet possessing rediscovery in each of them. Caraza, as previously demonstrated, is a painter-poet where each verse impregnates each page with color and is most certainly worth reading not only with one's sight, but also with one's senses of smell, touch, taste and sound. Noche de colibries: Ekphrastic Poems por Xanath Caraza publicado por Pandora lobo estepario Productions press es un plaquette bilingue, espanol e ingles. Noche de colibries: Ekphrastic Poems es sinonimo de pintar con palabras que emergen desde el centro de una mujer, poeta. Ritmos policromaticos se mezclan expertamente entre las paginas de este libro. Imagenes acompanan cada poema que las celebra, no las describe sino crea un poema, una historia, redescubriendolas. Caraza, como lo ha demostrado con anterioridad, es una pintora-poeta donde cada verso impregna la pagina con color y merece ser leido no tan solo con la vista, sino con el olfato, el tacto, el gusto y el oido."

Xanath Caraza's first book-length collection Conjuro(Spellbound), with introduction by Fred Arroyo, is published by Mammoth Publications, a Native-owned literary press. In this tri-lingual text, Caraza combines Spanish, English, and Nahuatl (language of the Aztecs) to create a continuous spell of verse. Caraza's writing derives from her awareness of Indigenous thought: words are tangible objects, not abstractions, and capable of influencing physical reality's web of interactions. The poet's connection to her Indigenous and Mexican heritage energizes her meditations and proclamations, which are set in Veracruz, Spain, Paris, Chicago, and Kansas City, her present home. Caraza is a dynamic performance poet as well as a skilled writer. This debut collection establishes her as a major voice of 21st American letters. This book shows how multiple cultures co-exist for United States immigrants. It is appropriate for young adults, Latin American Studies, Indigenous American Studies, and Midwest U.S. Studies. Xanath Caraza is a traveler, educator, poet and short story writer. Originally from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, she is a Kansas City resident. She has an M.A. in Romance Languages. She lectures in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her chapbook Corazon Pintado: Ekphrastic Poems (2012) is from TL Press. She won the 2003 Ediciones Nuevo Espacio international short story contest in Spanish and was a 2008 finalist for the first international John Barry Award. Caraza is an advisory circle member of the Con Tinta literary organization and a former board member of the Latino Writers Collective in Kansas City. Rigoberto Gonzalez writes of Conjuro: "A decisively Amerindian song breathes through the pages of Xanath Caraza's Conjuro, a charitable book of invocation, incantation, lamentation and healing. Caraza's poems are the antidote to our troubled times: they reach toward ancestral spirit and woman-strength, they collect wisdom from the natural and experiential landscapes, they reorient language away from duplicity and back to the "oral traditions of the heart." A truly moving, and spellbinding, debut."