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Landscapes of Belonging: Introduction
By AJ Baginski, Ivylove Cudjoe, Alexa Hurtado-Montaño, Alain Lawo-Sukam, Regina Mills and George Villanueva “Post-1492, what the uninhabitable tells us… is that populations who occupy the ‘nonexistent’ are living in what has been previously conceptualized as unlivable and unimaginable.”– Katherine McKittrick “How would Google Maps direct someone you love to your home? How would it Read more
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Index of Contributors
Carmen Baca taught high school and college English for thirty-six years before retiring in 2014. She is an author of six books and multiple short publications from prose to poetry in a variety of genres. As a Chicana and a Norteña native to New Mexico, she keeps her culture’s traditions alive through regionalism to prevent Read more
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protest & at the school where few can say my children’s names correctly
should i tell her about the girl in the bombed out car / her family dead around her / how she called for help / Read more
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4 poems
Con todo aquí,/ pero sin todo ahí, / sabiendo vivir entre aquí y ahí, / …yo. / Read more
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3 Poems
Te imagino amando en español / Con fortaleza de ébano. / Con ancestralidad en mis venas. / Con presencia de arena infinita. / Read more
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Memoria & Smoke in Juarez
smells like stories gone / yellow with age like dreams / of a land where your name sits / awkward on their tongues / Read more
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Finding Home Away & Listen
Sometimes, I go back / Just me and nature unmuffled / I have planted my dreams again / Read more
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The ABCs of Trying to Belong
Belonging has been a lifelong negotiation of where I am and where I want to be. Read more
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What does a Language Taste Like? & Recolectando Mis Pedacitos
Childhood memories haunt me, / Spanish-speaking little brown girl / sitting in Ms. Jones’ first-grade classroom / Read more
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Hope Is Not a Precondition for Action & Bombs In The Water
The dust of many stars / Has settled upon / the revolutionary aspirations / of our ancestors. / Read more