I didn’t write this for you!

by | Aug 30, 2024

Excerpt from Eddie Vega’s poem, “I didn’t write this poem for you,” (2019, 76), illustrated by Lisa Rathje.   In 2023, the Pew Research Center published information about how Latinas/os/es in the United States view Spanish language in their lives.1 The study...

Derecho Days

by | Aug 24, 2022

Derecho Days is an experimental, personal comic art piece that navigates the aftermath of enduring the August 2020 derecho: an inland hurricane that, in 14 hours, led to $11 billion in damage, caused 25 tornadoes from Nebraska to Ohio, and destroyed 70 percent of the...

Teaching Young Students to Interview

by | Sep 5, 2019

Cultural Picket Fences outside the school are based on student interviews about family traditions and heritage. Ana, who joined our class at Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences in Northern Virginia last fall, was excited to share her parent interview...

Grounding Ourselves

by | Sep 7, 2018

From Here, This Looks Like Me by Paddy Bowman When someone asks, “What is your sense of place, where do you belong?,” what do you conjure? Each of us experiences a place differently based on our relationships, interactions, and memories. We call upon different senses...

Writing as Alchemy

by | Sep 28, 2016

I. Lawn Chair as Trope When Long moves into his next home, he will take only the things that matter most: his television, a Sony analog box that he and his wife purchased when they were married; his stereo, two giant Sony boomboxes, or blasters, from the ‘80s; and his...