Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American Poetry_Gift_Guide who was asked to consider

who was asked to consider directing President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed to create a COVID vaccine

from the canals of Venice to the pleasure domes of Xanadu

and washed-up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing is asked to perform a job for Rosie

Chaos Vector

both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia

Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American Poetry_Gift_Guide who was asked to considerJasminne Mendez didnt speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish speaking culture at home and the American, English speaking one around her.