DREAMing Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Students - Softcover

America, PEN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1076441130 ISBN 13: 9781076441133

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Since 2016, PEN America has hosted writing workshops in New York City for young, undocumented students from the City University of New York, who came to the United States when they were children. They come from nearly every continent and from a variety of backgrounds. The writing of participants in the most recent workshops are now collected in this anthology, Dreaming Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Students. DREAMers. There are perhaps few other groups we hear so much about yet hear so little from. Dreaming Out Loud changes that. The 58 personal essays, short stories and poems here give us insight in to the challenges, hopes, and yes, dreams, of young people trying to make sense of the puzzle of their lives, their identity, their future. There are deeply personal reflections on the journey to a new country and poignant recollections of the loved ones, languages, and cultures they left behind. We see their fears and anxieties alongside their joys and triumphs. We see moments of sadness alongside flourishes of wit and vivacity. And throughout, we see strength and resolve, and the kind of dignity that should make every American honored to call them one of us.This anthology includes an introduction by DREAMing Out Loud director and co-founder, award-winning novelist and essayist Įlvaro Enrigue, who, along with writers Charlie Vazquez, and Lisa Ko, taught and mentored the students.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1076441130
• ISBN 13: 9781076441133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Vazquez Charlie