"A full-throated tapestry of real Americana, Here to Stay gets in your face, in your head, and deep into your heart." -- Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"The poems in this anthology howl, perspire, fall in love, reimagine myth, lose language, find language, have faith in poetry, disbelieve in poetry, repurpose the brutal language of ICE spreadsheets, turn to consider the border, turn away and consider everything but the border--and in this way, page by page, the poems in this anthology are among the best ever written. They will shake you to your core." -- Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of the Pulitzer-Prize finalist The Man Who Could Move Clouds
"In Here to Stay, fifty-three writers invite their fortunate readers into poetry's 'space of freedom'--a territory that affords refuge, revelation, and yes, revolt, in lives too often circumscribed by the cruel boundaries of citizenship 'status'. I'd gladly devote a full week to meditating on each poet's finely wrought verse and stirring artist statement to make a year's worth of communion with the remarkable diasporic community here assembled. I hope you'll join me in this practice." -- Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
"The undocumented migrant is one of modernity's greatest heroes and, legally speaking, cruelest jokes. This breathtaking collection of poetry across the migrant diaspora does what politics cannot: speak honestly about the paradox of being hated yet invisible. It's the soul food I needed." -- Aarti Shahani, bestselling author Here We Are and award-winning journalist, formerly undocumented
"A collection at once both carefully and playfully curated, Here to Stay resists easy labels in favor of shining the spotlight on writers in some way affected by the U.S. immigration systems' politics of exclusion. By turns joyful, furious, contemplative, funny, and revolutionary, the featured poets in this anthology invite further reading in the world of undocupoetics." -- Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration
