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Apr 11

A poet’s field notes, ‘ending in a deportation’

By Jennifer Hijazi

In his new collection, poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s imagery and dream-like phrases allow him to speak of his immigration status in a way he hadn’t been able to before.

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Apr 02

A poem for Flint, four years after the water crisis began

By Jennifer Hijazi

Tarfia Faizullah's poem “I Told the Water” brings water to life and unpacks its role in our lives -- as mirror, life-giver and sometimes a villain.

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Mar 28

Poetry and music empowers this Tucson art collective to embrace their identity

By Jennifer Hijazi

After Mexican-American studies was banned at their school, these young people formed a collective to educate themselves and others.

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Mar 19

Parkland students pour their feelings into poetry

By Jennifer Hijazi

A 14-year-old student who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wrote about life's "ups and downs" soon before his death. After the shooting, a classmate writes that "nothing about this feels normal."…

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Mar 06

This poet wants you to rethink what it means to be vulnerable

By Jennifer Hijazi

Poet Analicia Sotelo penned her latest collection to upend tropes of the helpless damsel, inspired by an Italian painter's dream-like depiction of womanly strength in the throes of vulnerability.

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Feb 26

This poet imagines black victims of police violence ‘alive someplace better’

By Jennifer Hijazi

Danez Smith sees another life for the black victims of police violence: at last living in a world where blackness is celebrated and “everything/is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun.”…

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Jan 15

This Salvadoran poet writes to humanize the immigrant story

By Patty Gorena Morales

Javier Zamora began writing poetry as a teenager after a wave of national protests over immigration reform. Zamora’s poems piece together the strained but inherent connection between the U.S. and El Salvador, and aim to shed light on the immigrant…

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Jan 08

After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican poets ask again what it means to belong

By Jennifer Hijazi

For artists who are both New Yorkers and Puerto Ricans, the concept of identity is fluid and complicated.

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Jan 02

Listen to Rupi Kaur, one of the most popular poets in the world, read her work

By Elizabeth Flock

Listen to Rupi Kaur read from "The Sun and Her Flowers," which has sold a million copies since its release in October, and her first book, "Milk and Honey,"…

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Jan 01

This New Year’s poem honors ‘the wrong roads we’ve taken’

By Jennifer Hijazi

Jimmy Santiago Baca wrote the collection, “Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande” in 2004 after living on the banks of that river. Every morning, he ran through snow, rain and mud in a ritual that he called a spiritual experience.

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