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 ...

Photos of a father and his young daughter, drowned in the Rio Grande, underlined the deadly risks of the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Martín Espada drew on them for his book ...

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.

Arizona's state poet laureate Alberto Ríos grew up on the Arizona-Mexico border. In his poem "The Border: A Double Sonnet," Rios describes what the border signifies to people living there.

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 ...

Poet Sylvia Elia Vargas unveils debut poetry book 'Echoes of the Muse,' celebrating border life and bilingual identity Story by Malena Charur, Laredo Morning Times • 3mo ...

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 ...

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 ...