"I seek poems that rise from the ashes"

"Bureaucrats shifting responsibility,/shuffling lives into despair"

"Discovering new meanings for old words/listed in the encyclopedia of colonialism."

"forming bridges of correspondence from old to new worlds."

"suspended from the high branches of an old wisdom tree"

"born/from the holy tree where one is brother/to all brothers, sister/to all sisters."

"I'm still a painter. I consider myself a painter who uses poetry as a different way of painting. It wasn't until I wa…"

"I want to know/who will decide our fate?/You, or I, or WE together?/Will I be free to discover my own path?"

"within these verses is history"

"My father's family is Puerto Rican, my mother's family is Dominican. I start with Puerto Rican-Dominican, then I go t…"