Released recently from los compañeros de la Coalición de Derechos Hermanos: In the fiscal year that began on October 1, 2005 and ended on September 30, 2006, two hundred five migrant deaths were documented in Arizona. Numbers from the Pima, Yuma, and Cochise County 152 males, 48 females, and 5 individuals whose gender is still [...]

The sixth and last installment of my series of articles for The Noise. Fotos by Bart Pogoda. Poco a poco se anda lejos. –dicho mexicano We’re practicing personal pronouns when it pops out of Yared’s mouth. “The fan writes a circle!” he cries, fully aware that in my fourth grade classroom, we raise our hands [...]

If he turns the guns on the teachers, the students will again learn the lesson taught by men with guns to students with pencils. It’s octubre, the Mexican season of massacre. Every year on the night of the second a long shudder rolls up the rocky spine of the continental divide from somewhere in Chiapas [...]

English translation of this post. Más noticias de poesía slam mexicano. Lo encontré un poco tarde, pero lo encontré de todos modos. El festival de la UNAM que se llama “Poesía en Voz Alta” ya empezó el jueves pasado. Más información está desponible en el sitio del Casa del Lago. Este año tienen por lo [...]