Hoa Nguyen’s poetry collection Violet Energy Ingots (Wave Books, 2016) weaves a rough tapestry of domestic objects and daily tasks that also reveal how we long to grow our own cultural garden.
Noh Anothai discusses his poem “Sappho Responds,” which contemplates the Pulse attack from Sappho’s view that love—not violence—is the subject worth glorifying.
Edward Loera reflects on lost love and his visits to the shrine Santuario de Plateros where pilgrims fill the walls with wishes to el Santo Niño de Atocha.