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Javier Zamora
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
Javier Zamora on Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's
Children of the Land
By
Javier Zamora
| January 24, 2020
'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
Javier Zamora on How Poetry Helped Him Break the Silence
By
Javier Zamora
| April 12, 2019
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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