Juan Felipe Herrera
insideyou will find your namewritten on a piece of flesh — Juan Felipe Herrera, from “Interview w/a Border Machine,” Every Day We Get More Illegal (City Lights, 2020)
Category: Chicano-American Literature
Francisco X. Alarcón
This boundless desire of being — Francisco X. Alarcón, from “Never Alone,” Snake Poems (Chronicle Books, 1992)
Luis Omar Salinas
If the windwere a woman, I’d fall in loveevery day, — Luis Omar Salinas, from “Chivalry,” Elegy For Desire. (University of Arizona Press; 1st Edition, April 1, 2005)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
—my eyes draw a kindness out of theirs, the way darkness draws its light from falling snowflakes. — Jimmy Santiago Baca, from“Drawing Light,” Black Mesa Poems (New Directions, 1989)
The Vale of Soul-Making 