For many of these writers, their Latinx identity and commitment to their craft are inseparable. Jiménez says she has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember — and being Latinx, being Puerto Rican, is a crucial part of that. “I think that’s the way most of us see our artmarking,” she says. “That’s just a part of who we are, and how we move in the world.”
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“I was writing about Cubans I knew…the ones who are not just separated from Cuba or distanced from their heritage, but ones who are growing up outside of the familiar Cuban locales in America.”
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“You tend to identify with what you’re looking at very closely.” -Mary Gaitskill
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Chicana writer Helena Maria Viramontes writes narratives that are resilient in their unrelenting love of life and all of humanity–a necessity for the political era of Trump.
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Read a poem by Jennifer Clement, poet and former president of PEN Mexico.
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