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 ...

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.

She said the poem shows how something like a national border “really signifies…who has access to life and who has access to death.” Read Pimentel’s “ For Want of Water” here, and ...

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 ...

We talk about her hometown of El Paso, Texas (a border town nestled next to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico) burritos, poetry, and finding home in the Bay Area. KQED reporter Carlos Cabrera-Lomeli ...

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 ...

For two weeks, Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin and Mica Sigourney walked along the border that... Artists explore border issues in performance/poem set to Gaeilge, English, dance ...