Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

"With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his fathers deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his...

"A lush tapestry of poetry created by undocumented and undocu-adjacent writers, Here to Stay is an invitation to be a part of an integral component of contemporary American poetry"-- Provided by publisher.