In Retrospect, Blackstreet’s Card Tower was Wildly Incomplete - Poem of the Month, November 2025 at ONLY POEMS

https://www.onlypoems.com/poem-of-the-month/november-2025-theme-heartbreak

When Asked If She's Afraid of Anything, Nikki Giovanni Answers

https://www.cgreview.org/magazine/when-asked-if-shes-afraid-of-anything-nikki-giovanni-answers

Ding Dong - semi-finalist for the 2025 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize

https://www.crabcreekreview.org/crabcreekrevblog/previous/3

The Odds - winner of Peatsmoke Journal’s 2025 Summer Editor’s Contest

https://www.peatsmokejournal.com/2025-poetry-contest-winner/emily-portillo

Evolution Didn’t Plan for This - runner-up for Hunger Mountain’s 2024 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize

https://hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunger-mtn-31/poetry

GED - finalist for Breakwater Review’s 2025 Peseroff Poetry Prize

https://www.breakwaterreview.com/copy-8-of-seventeen-years-old-in-the-a

After the 527th Anti-LGBTQ Bill This Year, I Remind Myself - semifinalist for the 2024 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize

https://www.deanza.edu/english/creative-writing/documents/2024-red-wheelbarrow-eighth-annual.pdf

Paradox - finalist for the Sand Hills Magazine’s 2024 Poetry Contest

https://sandhillsmagazine.com/store/p/style-01-ej5na-wny55

Eleven - Rattle Magazine

https://rattle.com/eleven-by-emily-portillo/