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Early Poetic Awakening
- Rodrigo Tuma recounts learning poetry by reading Irish poet Mícheál Ó Coileáin in school and discovering poetry's power to reveal cultural limits.
- He was shocked and delighted to learn poetry could expose and elevate how people think about themselves.
Poem As Corrective To Frost
- Darrel Alejandro Holnes's poem reframes Frost's
Shifting The Stakes Of The Wall
- Holnes places migrant experiences at the center to challenge who gets to build and guard borders.
- His poem shifts Frost's domestic disagreement into a context of armed borders and deadly crossings.