Four Suitcases

At five years old, Armen would say, “I want,” and Karena would complete the sentence…

Love Story for a Foreign Girl

  1. Tell yourself, at least he’s kind. You don’t know this for sure, but…

Strange Leaves

  #immigrationshuffle   Steps off of bus. Downtown McAllen. After surrendering to Border Patrol. Given…

Almost Animal

  I heard they no longer sew eyelids of the dead shut. When I pressed…

Writing Home: An Introduction

Hiraeth is a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, a home that maybe…

What The Bear Knows

A black bear was on the run in Paterson, New Jersey. He appeared, seemingly from…

Ghosts

The signs started appearing again, and with them, the dreams that Soledad thought had disappeared…

Three Poems

Solitary Encounters His intellect reminded me of Spanish Harlem, unpretentious but resonating, as he discussed…

Survival of Caguay

All hail the day of the Burst. Diaján and Freca, leaders of the Tainex@s, signaled…

First Impressions of a Sister Home

I wanted to see Cuba before it changed, before US franchises imprinted their neon billboards,…