Love Poems for the Border Patrol. By Amitava Kumar. February 25, 2018. In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades.

Some poems take place across the border, where the American Dream remains elusive and there are a different set of challenges. The silences and metaphysical speculations around being undocumented ...

The U.S.-Mexico border is hotly debated and polarized in politics, often gracing headlines. But a new book examines it in a new way: through poetry. Gabriel Dozal is the author of "The Border ...

“The Desert,” from Brandon Shimoda’s new collection, “Hydra Medusa,” is emblematic of the complex lyric-historical landscape of borders, dreams, shrines and underworlds found throughout ...

In her highly anticipated second collection, Solmaz Sharif examines the language of rules — exploring conformity and naming losses. Migration, borders, and displacement are constants in these poems.

Living on the U.S.-Mexico line between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Sasha Pimentel and her University of Texas students have been touched by border violence, witnessed the drug wars and an epidemic ...

Alejandro Jimenez’s poetry exists beyond borders . May 12, 2023 | Manuel Aragon. The border is a false division, a line on a piece of paper or a map. Look across it and you’ll see that the ...

“Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots and Graffiti From La Frontera,” edited by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Bobby Byrd and John William Byrd “Ocean Power: Poems From the Desert ...

R If They Come for Us: Poems By Fatimah Asghar (One World). Reading Sun 8/12, 6 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark,773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst.com .

Classical Chinese poetry has also enjoyed great popularity beyond national borders, both in ancient and modern times, inspiring many foreign writers, composers and even hippies. US EUROPE AFRICA ...