Coming of Age in Poetry: An Interview with Elexia Alleyne
Growing up in D.C.’s barrio, Elexia remembers a vibrant, tight-knit Dominican community.
The Chinese Poetry Left at Angel Island, the “Ellis Island of the West”
Angel Island Immigration Station was built in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay mainly to process immigrants from China, Japan, and other countries on the Pacific Rim. Its primary mission was to better enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and other anti-Asian laws enacted in subsequent years.
How Poet Elizabeth Acevedo Brings Sacred Monsters to Life
What inspires Acevedo more than anything else are uncelebrated heroes. While pursuing an MFA in creative writing, she realized she wished to dedicate her writing to this idea. She felt somewhat isolated, as the only student in the program of African descent, of an immigrant background, and from a large city.