Qualifications and Qualifying Statements
A conversation with Sephy
An Origin Story
I could talk your ear off about the current state of Mexican-American literature.
A Place in the World
A conversation with novelist Donna Miscolta
I Know my Life Matters but How do I Translate That into Japanese?
My students & co-workers worry / if I return to America, I’ll catch COVID / or a bullet in my back.
Ingress
Dust remembers what we try to forget, preserves the hidden, and keeps evidence in wait.
Social Categories, Nuance, and Being Messy
A Conversation with Sociologist and Author Anthony Ocampo, Ph.D.
“This is a Body” and other poems
it is a form of mothering / to hurt yourself / rather than others
To My Father, on the One-Year Anniversary of His Death
I am standing at the ironing board, running a hot iron over a folded and stitched-together strip of quilting cotton to make bias tape.
“bastard” and other poems
anjing my mother calls you. / how dare you defy what god has given you?
How Things Are Done
The way restaurants work has never been fair — yet everyone just seems to accept it.
Art in the space of social issues
