

Manola Gonzalez Rosillo
Family Tree
MY MOTHER IS still alive and I do not answer her phone call.
My mother is still alive and I’m not in the mood to talk, so I mute my cell.

Patrice Nganang
The Chickens of Pine Prairie
"Each of the forty-five detainees ... took his plate, and then one by one slid it through the window to be discharged."

Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella
The Foreignness of Our Mouths
"...I have no room for the sorrow over the earth; / these days I see the light and I am thankful"

Lauren Markham, Ricardo Jaramillo, et al
Our Voices Matter: a conversation at school
Students from Oakland International High school reflect with their teachers upon the 2020 Presidential election