“I Can’t Feel My Heart”
By Debbie Hall. Separating families at the border leads to a PTSD crisis for migrant children.
Journalism in Verse
To Be a Survivor
By Heidi Seaborn. On the island of Lampedusa, Italy, a boat of
Migrant Passions
By Steve Karamitros. A man is placing crosses in the desert to
It’s Currently Summer Here Where We Boil Our History
By Suzanne Swanson. "You’d like it here where the repetition of lies has a rhythm verging on lullaby."
There is a Border No Skin Can Cross
By Barry Wallenstein. Imagining a border town with the name of Fearless.
Death by the Numbers
By Mary Turck. The winning poem of our weekly challenge does the math on migrant child death at the U.S. border.
What They Don’t Say About Border Violence
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. "They cry 'border violence,' even though they brought the violence to us."
A January Thursday in El Valle
By Katherine Hoerth. "This is the home I know, the Rio Grande Valley, the place the president calls dangerous..."
Un Dolor que Camina: Honduras-La Frontera de E.E.U.U., 2018
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. What's driven thousands of central Americans to join the migrant caravan?
Emergency Contact: Dispatches from the Tornillo Children’s Detention Camp
By Abigail Carl-Klassen. On a manufactured crisis of American proportions.
