Among the many qualities of poetry is its ability to inspire, memorialize, challenge, and even heal. The Broad’s 2021 World AIDS Day commemoration showcases Benjamin Garcia, féi hernandez, and Emanuel Xavier – three distinct Latinx voices speaking to how issues around HIV/AIDS have impacted their lives and informed their creative processes. Their poems traverse the intersections of HIV/AIDS and community, cultural heritage, stigma, spirituality, and much more. Marginalized communities find it more difficult to access HIV testing, treatment, and prevention due to social and economic inequalities, which in turn leads to a disproportionate increase in new diagnoses within queer Latinx communities. The poets in this selection participate in a tradition continued since the early days of the AIDS epidemic: confronting crisis with art.