 The editors of Quarterly West have invited us, undocumented and formerly undocumented writers and friends of Undocupoets, to share our work in this feature. Not to explain, but to explore, shake up, and unearth, for ourselves and for each other, what the parent, child, sister, and self become once we’ve arrived. |  Thanks to Undocupoets, poets don’t need papers to be heard |  Ed. by Aida Salazar & Alina ChauThe biographies include engineer and astronaut Anousheh Ansari; Paralympic athlete and entrepreneur Alejandro Albor; surgeon Ayub Khan Ommaya; jazz musician Candido Camero; dancer ConceiÁ§ao Damasceno; Sriracha inventor and businessman David Tran; basketball player Dikembe Mutombo; author Edwidge Danticat; politician Ilhan Omar; comic artist Jim Lee; environmental activist Juana Guttierez; cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the Undocupoets, a group of undocumented poets. |
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