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Nearly One-Third: It's Time to Listen

Nearly One-Third: It's Time to Listen

Nearly one-third [https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/violence-against-women#:~:text=Worldwide%2C%20almost%20one%20third%20(27,violence%20by%20their%20intimate%20partner] of women across the world between the ages of 15 and 49 have experienced some form of physical and/or sexual violence from their partner during a

Struggles of Migration

Struggles of Migration

People are always moving. People are constantly migrating, whether from states of mind, ideas, or moving from one place to another. When people end up moving, there are always a series of emotions and struggles that follow. When I first moved from America to Japan a few years back, I

Harmonizing Narratives: Elhillo, Kane, and Shire on “Home”

Harmonizing Narratives: Elhillo, Kane, and Shire on “Home”

For the war women, peace women, and beloved women--Women of divine resilience and sacred wombs,To girls birthed, “From Girls That Never Die”...

"To be American is to be?" How Victoria Chang and Kaveh Akbar’s Poetry Attempt to Answer This

"To be American is to be?" How Victoria Chang and Kaveh Akbar’s Poetry Attempt to Answer This

My grandparents immigrated to New York from Colombia in the late 50s. They did not want to move to a Hispanic neighborhood because they thought they wouldn’t be able to fully integrate if they stayed with people like them. They moved to Astoria, a predominantly Greek neighborhood. Upon their

Snow and Sand

Snow and Sand

A poem inspired by Janice N. Harrington's "Wind Shear"

Como Tú

Como Tú

After reading “Como Tú/ Like you/ Like me [https://poets.org/poem/como-tu-you-me]” by Richard Blanco. Como tú, I always wondered what would’ve been my life If I had stayed in my home, my country. It’s been 9 years yet I still see words I don’t understand,

Mementos of My Father

Mementos of My Father

a poem written after reading "Letter to My Father" by Martín Espada