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The following are important dates for immigration reform: March 9, 2013 Mobilization effort at All Souls Church in Washington, DC Community input and organization for march in April (ego alert:) Claudia’s Spanish tongue is a traitor but still lovely 🙂 March 16-17 Conference in California with local TPS community and national activists I will be…
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1,000 miles: step 21
Winter is coming to an end, and all the snow memories I’ve got are of angels shedding cheese. And oh, that awful snow storm that hit the metropolitan area—which by the way, was very stingy with Falls Church. This is what I woke up to earlier this week: The earth’s climate is changing and in…
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1,000 miles: step 20
Last semester, I applied to Hollins University, an extremely small and private liberal arts school. It simply echoed the education I received at Simon’s Rock. Hollins, however, has a lot more going for it. What caught my eye the most was its strong creative writing program and its closeness to home. Hollin’s in Roanoke, Virginia,…
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1,000 miles: step 19
From poet Chad Anderson’s “Like Math”: And I said, “Words, what are words when I love you like math?” And she said, “Like math, is that how you think you love me? You love me like….” I said, “I love you like math, Infinite and exact…” … Most days, the word hate isn’t in my…
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1,000 miles: step 18
One of the biggest changes from traditional college to community college has been housing and commuting. I spent Wednesday and Thursday running on 5 hours of sleep. When I was at Simon’s Rock, if I ever needed to stay up all night doing schoolwork, I resorted to the endless suggestions my roommate had for keeping…
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1,000 miles: step 17
“I suppose, I love this life in spite of my clenched fist. …we all have different reasons for forgetting how to breathe…” Last Wednesday, my English professor shared Andrea Gibson’s “For Eli” with our class. He said the video was a response from one of our classmates to a class discussion on war. He meant,…
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i am a Place
The context of these images come easier to me than it does for you, dear-reader. Unless you’re reading from Great Barrington, Massachusetts, but even then, you would wonder why the context of an image matters. First, Massachusetts, I miss you, but the star of this story is Memory and Place. Second, I came to the…
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1,000 miles: step 16
With a biology test and a precalculus exam this week, it would make sense for this to be another week spent poem-less. And it will be. Right after this drafty interlude:Â second breath Stick a needle through my tongue, stitching your thin string, spell out your grievance: its icing so thick, it’s almost sweet. You…
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1,000 miles: step 14
Last night, watching las noticias, the news, via Univision, there was a segment that took my breath away. It was a brief report about the Residency Now campaign for Central Americans under the Temporary Protected Status. My heart started racing with that crazy flutter of wings from which hope learns to fly with. I am…
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Slam: A Poetry Revived
What most people ignore about poetry is that it is ever-changing, always evolving. Long gone are the days of rigid and complex text as norm for poetry. The poetry of today in particular must be read out loud. Poetry readings are not as popular as they could be, even though some of the most poignant…
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