Twenty Strangers on a Boat in the Dark: Javier Zamora on His Childhood Migration

Twenty Strangers on a Boat in the Dark: Javier Zamora on His Childhood Migration

From His New Memoir Solito

By Javier Zamora | October 5, 2022

Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

Javier Zamora on Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's Children of the Land

By Javier Zamora | January 24, 2020

'Columbine,' A Poem by Javier Zamora

'Columbine,' A Poem by Javier Zamora

"Though there had been war; I did not know the way to school yet."

By Javier Zamora | October 3, 2019

Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds

Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds

Javier Zamora on How Poetry Helped Him Break the Silence

By Javier Zamora | April 12, 2019

Citizenship By Javier Zamora

Citizenship By Javier Zamora

Part Three of the American Academy of Poets Weeklong Poetry & the Body Series

By Javier Zamora | March 20, 2018

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