6 Word Memoir
I am an ESL student at the Cobble Hill School of American Studies in Brooklyn, New York.read more
View ArticleEdgar's Dramatic Reading
edgar.mp3Bodega You see, the men that made this country are men from the street. Men like me, like you, like Sapito here. Men that used whatever money-making scheme they could, and made enough money to...
View ArticleNicholas becomes Edgar
Part 1: The poemI am Edgar Nicolas Parada... Edgar for my uncle from El Salvador he call me Edgarcito, I speak with him sometimes on skype And Nicolas for my father, who raised me in place of my mother...
View ArticleCrossing the Border
It was two in the afternoon when we crossed the border. When I saw at the border patrol, I screamed, “La migra, la migra corran.” We ran for seven minutes when the border patrol said, “Stop!” We stop...
View ArticleSilver Platter
Written in response to "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez.Here is my found poem: In a Silver Platter A found poem Silver PlatterAll my life, I had been trying to Get out of the house I...
View ArticleNew life: A found poem.
Phone to Honduras, he learns she is pregnant, (as he suspected) the daughter born on November 2.Maria Isabel and Enrique name the baby Katerin Jazmin, the baby has Enrique's nose, mouth and eyes. The...
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