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Posted on March 27, 2021December 18, 2021

SALAS

In my freshman year of college, I was a part of a history research project. Its goal was to find out the history of Salinas and study its immigration patterns,…

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Posted on July 27, 2020July 27, 2020

CONQUEROR

You stole every one of our stories, Chest blossoming with anger when we dare to claim anything.  The locks that fed and grew Nations.  You call it past when it…

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Posted on July 17, 2018May 31, 2020

Sally- 1st place SUHSD Poetry Competition

Poem Transcribed As Performed Warning this poem contains situations of sexual assault and post traumatic stress disorder. For the things, I left unsaid in my last poem and the chains…

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Posted on July 17, 2018May 31, 2020

Survival Skills 101- 1st place SUHSD Poetry Competition

Poem transcribed as performed. I can’t remember the last thing he ever said to me. I’m starting to forget what he looks like, maybe that’s why I decided to write…

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Posted on September 18, 2017May 31, 2020

The Way I Was Made- 2nd place at NEA Big Read

“The worst injury is feeling you don’t belong so much / to you” I am 1 in 4. Not 1 in 4 to rebel against my parents and dye my…

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