Jan 02 2026
Born on January 2, 1952, Jimmy Santiago Baca has built one of the most remarkable literary careers in contemporary American poetry, transforming experiences of abandonment, poverty, incarceration, cultural displacement, family, love, violence, and survival into a body of work centered on the power of language to recover a sense of self. His path toward literature …
Dec 30 2022
[It would be neat if with the New Year] for Miguel It would be neat if with the New YearI could leave my loneliness behind with the old year.My leathery loneliness an old pair of work bootsmy dog vigorously head-shakes back and forth in its jaws,chews on for hours every day in my front yard—rain, …
