books

Mid-life

Published by Finishing Line Press, mid-life is Ana María Caballero’s first stand-alone poetry chapbook. At its heart is the grueling intersection of birth and death that occurs at mid-life, when parents decline, children appear and marriages settle. Launched at beloved Miami independent bookseller Books & Books in 2017, it is available for purchase via Amazon and Finishing Line Press.

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Revel

Pelican

Paco

Morning Feed

Mercury retrograde

Bathroom talk

Yellow Tomatoes

Another Airport Poem

A Notion of Marriage

The suffering game

reviews

“Ana María Caballero’s poems take us inside a wild and fierce intellect that, like a house, is on its surface well-ordered and welcoming. Beyond that manicured outward appearance, however, lies the complexity of its domestic life, a life that Caballero explores with an enviable amount of courage”.

P. SCOTT CUNNINGHAM
Creator, O,Miami Poetry Festival

“Nursing, peeing, death, getting drunk, and turning the lights down—Ana Maria Caballero finds wonderful poetry in both prosaic and transcendent moments of motherhood, marriage, life”.

WILLIAM EATON
Editor, Zeteo

“Ana María Caballero’s new collection is a celebration of diminishing innocence and growing wisdom that is indicative of mid-life. Touching upon tenderness, motherhood, anguish and partnership, these poems are as rhythmic as the moods of a newborn child ...”.

WENDY GIST
Author of Moods of the Dream Fog Co-founder of Red Savina Review

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Material

Material was awarded Trio House Press’ Editors Selection for Poetry in 2025 and will be published by the press in July of 2026. This book, about the way that experience cuts as it sculpts, is a work with nowhere to hide

Tra domenica e domenica

Edizioni Ensemble, Italy’s only poetry-dedicated press, translated Caballero’s book Entre domingo y domingo in 2025, releasing it as part of their acclaimed Fatto umano series.

The Wish

The Wish is a book that contains one single poem titled, “The Wish,” printed 197 times in its pages. When taken as integers, the digits in 197 add up eventually to 8, a number that represents abundance.

Mammal

Caballero's MAMMAL is a poetry collection that probes how the inescapable rhythms of our physicality govern our emotional hungers. MAMMAL gives voice to what is left unsaid in that all-important space of the home. Forthcoming in 2024 via Steel Toe Books.

Tryst

Tryst is Ana María Caballero’s first digital book, a collection of three arresting and poetic short stories, each with a one-of-a-kind generative cover. Caballero presents her book as a digitally native art piece and as a virtual gathering place in partnership with web3 publishing house Alexandria.

Entre domingo y domingo

Entre domingo y domingo gathers the poems Caballero wrote during her twenties, while living in Bogotá. This collection received Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, making her the first woman to win this honor. It was also awarded second prize in the nationwide Ediciones Embalaje Prize.

Reverse Commute

LA-based Silver Birch Press published Ides, an anthology of fifteen poetry chapbooks, including Caballero’s Reverse Commute.