Tender Excavations: Retelling Origin Stories in Adoption Narratives
As an Asian American, the incessant insistence of the question “Where are you from?” often followed by “No, where are you really from?” can be so exhausting. In the poem, I can finally confront this question and push back. Tell a different story.
Nonfiction by Jane Marchant
The Beginnings
Solidarity Across Struggles: a conversation with author Mona de Vestel
One String Guitar (Harvard Square Editions, 2016) weaves the histories of the Rwandan genocide and the 1973 Siege at Wounded Knee through two women’s stories—Francine, a survivor of the genocide... Read More
Poetry by Cortney Lamar Charleston
State of the Union “I see it in the American who served his time… the protester determined to prove that justice matters…” —BARACK OBAMA