Alberto Rios' 2015 poem "The Border: A Double Sonnet," 28 lines, each, he says, its own mini-poem, and a doubled format that represents the two sides of a place often depicted in terms of conflict.

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 realm between this new poetry movement and a 16th-century monastery was occupied solely by Dom Sylvester Houédard, also known also as dsh, the monk-slash-beat poet who made typewriter art ...

In a poem signed “Mom, age 13,” Zamora imagines how his mother processed some of what was happening around her when she was a child. Growing up in the States, he couldn’t get her to talk ...

Poetry at the border. opinion. Poetry at the border. GORDON GIFFIN, PAUL CELLUCCI, JAMES BLANCHARD and DAVID WILKINS. Contributed to The Globe and Mail. Published December 20, 2010.

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 ...

Atravesada: to have been crossed, to have gone through, to have been pierced, to have been meddled with. A borderland is in a constant state of transition Los atravesados live here: those who ...

Arlo Parks just released her transcendent new album My Soft Machine, whose opening track “Bruiseless” is a slam-poetry supernova.So it’s not a surprise that the 2021 Mercury Prize winner ...

This past Tuesday night at Galería de la Raza, a capacity, standing-room-only crowd filled the space for the full moon celebration of the release of Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora. A book that speaks ...