“All poets,

all writers are political.”

—Sonia Sanchez

There are generations upon generations of children like me—our realities and ways of life forged within the walls of immigrant and Black homes across the United States of America. We are the descendants of machete-wielding gods, cotton-field martyrs, and sugarcane soldiers. Long have we been made to scale bridges and live between cultures and languages, forever negotiating our relationship to homelands we may only know by name, if at all.

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Selected Writings

About Marjua