“An Immigrant’s Guide to Navigating Borders & Bodies of Water” is featured in the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2024! From CLMP:
Join us in celebrating #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Pick several reads from an indie press or lit mag on this year’s reading list (and don’t forget to bookmark so you can return to it year-round). Featuring Nightboat Books, Tupelo Press, Alice James Books, Sarabande, Inlandia Institute, Yellow Arrow Publishing, Futurepoem, Haymarket Books, Black Lawrence Press, Veliz Books, Dos Madres Press, Small Harbor Publishing, Small Harbor Publishing, Fonograf Editions, KAYA Press, Coffee House Press, Akashic Books, Milkweed Editions, Forest Avenue Press, Red Hen Press, Read Furiously, Swan Isle Press, Burrow Press, Restless Books, Full Stop, The Cincinnati Review, Anomalous Press, West Trestle Review, Electric Literature, Epiphany Literary Journal, The Kenyon Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and more indie publishers.
Published in West Trestle Review (Nov/Dec 2023), this poem was first commissioned for Metro Film and Arts’ “Breaking Down Walls” production in 2022.
Aileen Cassinetto 