Living on the U.S.-Mexico line between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Sasha Pimentel and her University of Texas students have been touched by border violence, witnessed the drug wars and an epidemic ...

When the Salvadoran-born poet Javier Zamora was nine years old, he travelled alone to the United States, crossing the border on foot to reunite with his family. Now twenty-seven, he has lived in ...

“The Desert,” from Brandon Shimoda’s new collection, “Hydra Medusa,” is emblematic of the complex lyric-historical landscape of borders, dreams, shrines and underworlds found throughout ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2025 issue. Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of ...

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.

As in border crossings, these poems are peregrinations by night and through darkness. They echo in a need of survival and a fear of ambush most of us will likely never experience. The longest poem in ...

Crack This Poem And Head Outdoors An eccentric millionaire from Santa Fe hid a chest full of gold and precious gems in the Rocky Mountains six years ago. Today, thousands of treasure hunters are ...

Love Poems for the Border Patrol. By Amitava Kumar. February 25, 2018. In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades.

Eduardo Corral's poems are an imagined glimpse into the internal lives of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border -- something he said has been forgotten or intentionally omitted in the national ...

Danez Smith’s “Bluff” represents a notable turning point for the poet — and maybe for American poetry as a whole. By Nam Le Nam Le is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection ...

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 ...

World Music Day, also known as Fête de la Musique, is celebrated every year on June 21 to honour the healing power and ...