Twenty Strangers on a Boat in the Dark: Javier Zamora on His Childhood Migration
From His New Memoir Solito
October 5, 2022
By Javier Zamora
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Javier Zamora
Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was one, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. His memoir Solito is out now from Hogarth.
Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration
Javier Zamora on Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's Children of the Land
January 24, 2020
By Javier Zamora
‘Columbine,’ A Poem by Javier Zamora
"Though there had been war; I did not know the way to school yet."
October 3, 2019
By Javier Zamora
Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds
Javier Zamora on How Poetry Helped Him Break the Silence
April 12, 2019
By Javier Zamora
Citizenship By Javier Zamora
Part Three of the American Academy of Poets Weeklong Poetry & the Body Series
March 20, 2018
By Javier Zamora
