El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory by Jazmine Ulloa proudly and forcefully argues that this city’s history, people, and binational nature must be brought directly into the center of U.S. history much like Ellis Island or the American Revolution are, instead of being relegated to the margins of our nation’s narrative and simply revisited every time an immigration crisis explodes. 

Interview with Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Author of “Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me”

Excavating Empire Through Poetry: A Conversation with Chris Santiago, Author of “Small Wars Manual.”

Conversation with Francisco Aragón.

Book Review of Canícula / Dog Days
Author: William Archila
Translated into Spanish by Mario Zetino
(Ren Hen Press 2026)
By Rey M. Rodríguez

When we met Ryo Yamaguchi—the Publisher & Executive Director of Copper Canyon Press, a mission-driven, independent press that has been dedicated to poetry for over fifty years, during residency—Oona and I found ourselves suspended between the quiet and the storm: the uncertainty of the artistic life and the risky crosscurrents of what we are meant to do with our vulnerability once it has found its way onto the page. What becomes of the work after the long months—or years—of devotion? What becomes of us?

Jake Skeets author of Horses.

Book Review of Annie Wenstrup’s The Museum of Unnatural Histories

Annie Wenstrup is the author of The Musuem of Unnatural Histories.