Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (edited by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph, and Esther Lin)

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Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (edited by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Janine Joseph, and Esther Lin)A lush tapestry of poetry and prose, Here to Stay is an invitation to engage with a new field of contemporary American poetry. I cannot separate my work from my undocumented identity. Aline Mello From the indomitable writers and activists Janine Joseph, Esther Lin, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo comes an anthology gathering some of the best work from currently and formerly undocumented poets, as well as poets from mixed status families from across the

such as rage

A former senior editor of Poets & Writers

at times an oratory to rally a crowd

the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming

and consumerism to a mid-life urge to shed these constraints

pop culture

"The poems in Joanna Fuhrman's MORAINE are just as layered and organic as the landforms alluded to in the title

with sample poems you can scan right in the book and explorations of the all-important connections between meter and meaning

Patricia Spears Jones

"Like everything veiled

the familiar and the foreign

a sonnet series in the voices of Incan royalty at the moment of colonization