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)
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)
This boundless desire of being — Francisco X. Alarcón, from “Never Alone,” Snake Poems (Chronicle Books, 1992)
So frequently I speak of longing, a language weighted with impossibility, but right now I say: remember this moment— how we mouth hunger, remember the way we map ourselves anew. — Casandra López, from “Continent of Desire,” Brother Bullet (University of Arizona Press, 2019)