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Minority Populations

Nuestra Ciudad: Writing the City in Spanish

By Ulises Gonzales

Today, a young writer working in Spanish arrives in New York City to find no shortage of role models.

War of the Species

By Michel Nieva

Completely unaware that this was the kind of sacred moment when you pledge your undying allegiance to a team, through thick and thin, I stated my choice.

Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery

Statistics

By Álvaro Baquero-Pecino

On a bad night, a train car on the red line takes more than half an hour to appear, and no fewer than twenty-one minutes to traverse the eleven stations to the southern tip of Manhattan.

Translated from Spanish by Sarah Pollack

Multilingual

Spanish-language Writing in New York, Then and Now: An Interview with Esther Allen & Ulises Gonzales

By Words Without Borders

While many Latinx writers work in English, there is a longstanding tradition of writers born or raised in this country who work in Spanish.

The Common Good

By Sara Cordón

All she can think about is why it ever occurred to her to dress like this in public.

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

This Language Called Kaaps: An Introduction

By Olivia M. Coetzee

Language is more than just a method of communication. It is about the ability to lay down roots, to settle into an identity, to have a place in history, in the present, and in the future. Language is…

Children of the Xam

By Khadija Tracey Heeger

Watch Khadija Tracey Heeger read her poem “Children of the Xam” in the original Kaaps.Poet Khadija Tracey Heeger honors a rich and complex heritage.Between the vertebrae of the Langeberg…

Translated from Kaaps by Olivia M. Coetzee & Khadija Tracey Heeger

Multilingual

The Wind Blows Where It Wishes and You Hear Its Sound

By Andre Trantraal

It should be patently obvious to anyone but the most resolutely blind that he is not aching with impatience to go to the house of the Lord.

Translated from Kaaps by the author

I Lift My Eyes Up

By Nashville Blaauw

Where moving out is mostly in a coffin

Translated from Kaaps by Andre Trantraal

scratch cards

By Shirmoney Rhode

and that which has no use will be discarded

Translated from Kaaps by Andre Trantraal

Multilingual

Snake’s Hill

By Olivia M. Coetzee

JB was the one to start that fire inside my head.

Translated from Kaaps by the author

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A Slice of Writing by Nikkei and Tusán Peruvian Writers

By Jennifer Shyue

Some of them have often called upon their Chinese or Japanese roots; others have alighted upon the topic only a few times, if at all.